FAT-ELVIS baseball collective

we don’t get snow in texas that often. once every year or two (or three). most of the time we’ll get one ice storm a year. it’ll hit late at night, close down most offices and schools and then be gone my noon. so the entire town will shut down because of a ten hour icing.

this past weekend was different. it was raining late wednesday night. by thursday morning it was snow. it snowed all day. half way thru the day the schools closed. by nightfall it was still snowing and the schools had closed the next day. our office was still open, but i’d be able to work from home which would give me a lot more flexibility with my schedule. work stuff, league stuff, the more work, then some league stuff to break up the monotony.

so with all this extra time, i got a chance to really delve into the website.  this new program has been time consuming to learn, but i’m already seeing the dividends of quick updates.  i was hoping that would be the case.  so even if it looks like this outside, i should be able to stay current AND have a life.

-chief

i’m on vacation.  each morning i wake up long before the mrs and start working on the website.  i’ve run into snag after snag.  part of it is learning this new online software.  the other part is just plain quirkiness with my computer.  it’s been frustrating.  so once a day i venture into the swamps of this thing and start trying to find my way back out.  usually one or two times a day i’ll find an answer.  slowly it’s all coming together.  then i realize just how much more there is to go and i start to get the shakes.

it’s going to come together.  and after i get some of these basic pages done, the rest should start filling in quickly.  the most troublesome part seems to be behind me, well, maybe except the computer itself which goes into think mode and i’m doubting it’s really doing that at all.  i think it’s taking a coffee break or a nap, or maybe it’s twiddling it’s proverbial software thumbs.  but it’s definitely not running full speed.  i guess that’s what happens when you’re running some memory intensive software on a computer that’s nearly four years old.  that’s 37 in computer years, or something like that.

today i found a major break through on the team’s pages.  i kept fiddling with mine until i got it where it needed to be.  in the back of my mind i was also trying to make sure there would be a simple system for updating the pages quickly.  honestly, i didn’t find the one i wanted.  at this point it’s probably an hour process.  i’d rather it be the 10 minute process.  but even the newer way will be faster than the 6 hour process i was dealing with before.  it got where by mid year i was tired of killing 6 hours when i could be doing something more entertaining like watching paint dry or celery growing hair.

i’m pretty sure i can speed it up even more than that, though i’ll have to talk to some software and web design gurus at work.  that won’t happen this week as i’m on vacation in rochester, ny and am not about to spend much more of my day trying to figure it out.  it’s already been 2 hours and my better half is nearly ready to walk out the door.  good thing it only takes me 15 minutes to shower and dress.  now if i could just get the web pages to update that fast.

-chief