While it was nice to have hosting during the move, I really do prefer having my server available at hand. And once again it is - after canceling the hosting and updating my DNS information this site and talkingfox.com are again hosted from my home office.

For future reference: SSH and command line access beats the crap out of cPanel any day.

I am taking a few minutes before my work day officially starts to write this. We are hitting the road tomorrow, for our move to Olympia. There are certainly things I will miss about Alaska, like the ravens, the aurora, the endless summer days, the sheer vast beauty of the place… There are a few things I won’t miss though, like the smell during break-up, the short winter days, the bitter cold (I don’t need to do another interior winter to know that -50F is no fun), snow (no really, I’ve had my share, Washington state could outlaw it for all I care at this point.)

Anyhow, the move (as I said) happens tomorrow and we will be on the road for several days. The last couple times I drove the ALCAN I did it in 3 days or less. This time we are taking our time, seeing a few things along the way and generally trying to be sane about it. As I find wireless on the way I will update twitter so those who care can see where we are.

As we start the new year I find that I am sadly fallen behind on things like this blog, social networking, reading and news aggregation, and generally anything unrelated to work or the daily functioning of the household. In other words, I have been working too much and relaxing too little. Well, that will have to change. Of course, that means I have to get back into a routine, which seems to be difficult when making major changes, such as, oh, starting a new job in a new town.