Beyond Fiction

I know it may be Tuesday right now on the East Coast but it is still Monday on the West Coast so, technically, this is still Monday Musings!

Seriously, I’m sorry about being late with this post but I’ve been pretty busy lately. This was a busy Monday. I woke up at 6:30 AM, which I am not used to since I work nights now! I ran my wife to work and then drove back and stayed up until now! Tomorrow we will both be working at night.

So, on to the business at hand. I’d like to talk about my website progress today. I’ve been getting a little more comfortable with Joomla and I have now created a small welcome page to my site and have created 2 sections on the site, one for my maternal genealogy and one for my paternal genealogy. These 2 sections have a small intro as well. It’s not much but it does represent some progress. I’ve also taken the “Down for Maintenance” portion off and you have access to these 3 small pages. Small steps! We have to start with small steps!

On the genealogy side, I’ve finally installed my Family Tree Maker on my new computer and have started a small family tree. It’s basically a starter file for everything that will follow. It’s my parents and siblings and all their descendants. From there we only have to start working back for each line! Once again, small steps!

So, there’s not a whole lot to talk about today but I am still very excited about the small progress I made this past few days. It’s a lot more than what I was doing previously!

Thanks for stopping by to check the blog and have a wonderful week everyone!

Ken

Hello everyone! It’s that time of week again.

I just wanted to start off by saying that not much has changed since last week. This past week was very busy for me so I didn’t get much of anything done, except for getting my Facebook under control and also eliminating most of my Farmville friends! Hopefully I will be able to get back to using my Facebook for what it was originally meant to be.

I’m still playing around with Content Management System software. As of this moment it looks like Joomla is winning out. I’ve still got some learning to do with it but I like the way it looks and feel it might be what I need to get the job done. Has anyone out there had any experience with Joomla or does anyone feel like offering some tips on this matter?

On the genealogy front, all my research is still buried in boxes! What I had on my computer is very unorganized. I feel quite ashamed at the mess that I have right now. I thought I was beginning to get things organized but I guess a big move changes everything.

Oh yes, I forgot to tell you all that I have moved BACK to North Carolina. I guess my heart was set on relocating and when we moved back to Texas last year we never really felt at home. So, we have been back in Havelock since the middle of April and things are starting to get a little better. I’ve got a job, albeit a temporary job. If things work out it could become full-time in 6 months so I only have about 4 and 1/2 months left to go! My wife is supposed to be starting a job just down the road from where I work with almost the same schedule as mine so that will be cool. It will also help us get back to some sort of normalcy!

I have plans to try to continue to learn Joomla this week and hopefully get at least a shell of something up on my site for everyone to see. I’ll continue with the blogging prompt posts, such as Tombstone Tuesday etc…  In time, I’ll be able to get my blog back going as I would like.

I continue to ask for your patience as things are in the construction stage. I hope to have a good bit to offer once I get everything going. Until then, have a great week everyone and best of luck in your research!

Thanks for stopping by!

Ken