We have had several days of what I would consider typical January weather, cold and a bit of snow — which does brighten things up.
I have been getting re-acquainted with Joomla! for a project, and this morning even modified a Perl CGI script from 2005. Woohoo! It was the script that I use for the “news” section at the bottom of the main home page that displays recent information from a MySQL database. The modification involved adapting it to search a web calendar database for recent events and display them as an include. Surprising how fast things come back although I had to double check the syntax of some Perl functions.
Christmas was fairly quiet. My sister came for the week and stayed with my parents. Bode just loves her, she takes him for long walks and even runs with him a bit. I have still been dragging, missed Christmas Eve services. Last year I went to two of them, so guess it comes out even.
As to resolutions, the only one I have thought a lot about is dropping “been there, done that” from conversations. When someone wants to share their joy at discovering something, they need to hear that I am celebrating with them. I was thinking while listening to holiday music on the radio that although some of us have heard the music from The Nutcracker again and again, some child was probably discovering it right at that moment.
The midnight blue homespun pullover sweater is still on hold, stopped at the shoulders, only the joining and adding sleeves left. Instead, I started a pair of socks in fingering weight navy blue yarn. I think the bulk of the sweater was getting to me. Socks are small and portable.
My left hip, which flared up after that bug I caught this fall, has gotten to the place where I can flex it enough to put on my socks without pain. Not sure whether to classify this as a blessing or lifting of a curse, but it is a positive development.
