End of an Era

So it’s official today. After 11 years, my leland account at Stanford has finally been de-activated. The sponsorship I got from the advising department that kept it alive after my second graduation expired yesterday. So if you send email to chaps@stanford.edu, it will bounce. If you try to look at the website, http://www.stanford.edu/~chaps, you get “Access forbidden”. Of course, I hadn’t updated that website for years, but it’s still sad to see “Steve’s Not Yet Spiffy Website” go. I’ll probably repost it on my fieldapps website or somewhere when I have some time to be historical and sentimental.

Served Up from San Diego

The Chappells Website is now served up via the new TextDrive datacenter in San Diego. The TextDrive techs moved the files a little earlier today. So far, I haven’t noticed any glitches or hiccups. They started moving stuff from seven servers in Dallas last night. These guys are pretty dedicated, and pretty good.

So, another weekend is history, two more days crossed off the rest of my life. Becky and I mostly enjoyed each other’s company, is how we passed the weekend. I recall that saying, ‘misery loves company’. I think we’re both still weak and energy deficient from the recent colds. There sure is a bunch of stuff we were each going to get done and didn’t. C’est la vie!

Now, if this little article posts without glitches, that’ll be a good sign in respect to the move from Dallas to San Diego.

Anniversary 34

|August 7, 2005 marked 34 years of marriage for Becky and John. It sure doesn’t seem that long, but when I stop and think to myself, “34 years!” it’s kind of mind boggling. I guess it must have been similarly boggling back at 25 years, when I must have stopped and thought to myself, “a quarter of a century!” It occurs to me that next year at 35 years I’ll stop and think, “man, that’s half a lifetime!” I don’t feel old enough to’ve been married for 34 years, and Becky sure doesn’t look old enough to’ve been married that long. |

|We boarded the dog at the vet Saturday and took off to Kansas City. Saw the Willy Wonka remake (I thought it was great) and had a nice dinner at a new Elephant Bar. Spent the night at a Marriott and Sunday did some shopping. Then back to Lawrence and same ‘ol same ‘ol, me at the computer and Becky pushing the vacuum around though I woulda tried to stop her if I’d’ve known she was gonna do that.|
Hey, that camera in the cell phone really works!|

Incidentally, if anybody read this article previously and think it was different from what they’re reading now, it’s because I’m reconstructing it from memory, as it was one of the items lost when the web host server crashed Aug. 14.