Hello, my friend. We meet again. It’s been a while. Where should we begin?

Yes, I realize I just quoted the opening lines of a Creed song. Is that a crime? Original or not, it seemed like an apropos opening to this blog post considering I haven’t written in ten days. And in blogging time, ten days feels like eleven or twelve!

Turkey Day

I trust everyone — and by “everyone” I mean the two people who still read what I write — had a nice Thanksgiving. There has been much chaos/drama in Kevland lately, so it would be misleading to say mine was nice. My Thanksgiving was…well, the “Garlic Parsley Smashed Red Potatoes” I made were delightful. Beyond that, I’m just thankful everyone in my family made it through the week intact.

Work

The rest of 2009 will be quite hectic. In my line of work — a line I cannot divulge due to my unwillingness to have to kill each of you for learning of said line of work — numerous projects have a December 31 deadline.

And since, contrary to popular opinion, I am not an entity unto myself, my schedule will partly be dictated by the schedule of others.

Okay, here’s how it works. Once I am finished with a project, it goes to someone else for testing. They then give it back to me so I can give it my finishing touches (i.e. a sprinkling of awesome dust).

So, this means I need to have all of my projects finished by the first or second week in December. Then the testers will do their testing. While this is going on I will have virtually NOTHING to do. But then, once they give the projects back to me, it will be a mad dash for me to finish before the 31st.

And of course, smack in the middle of all this is a little holiday you may all know about. (Christmas? Anyone?) This likely means each and every one of my projects will be handed back to me for completion somewhere around…oh, December 29 or so.

In short: Come 2010 I will be exhausted and insane. (Though, admittedly, still very awesome.)

The World of SKOS

Initially, my idea was to “surprise” all of you out of the blue (and yes, by “all of you” I mean the two of you who still read my blog) in the next week or two by completely revamping the design of SKOS.

But since in one or two more weeks (assuming my blog updates continue to be sporadic) I might not have ANY remaining readers, I thought it best to go ahead and announce it:

I am completely revamping the design of SKOS.

Even though I haven’t felt inspired to write lately, the web design bug has bit me hard during the past week. The current design you see now debuted in February/March of 2008. I “announced” the (then) new design by writing a satirical blog post about how major websites everywhere were going to mimic me.

Ah, good times.

Anyway, in need of a good distraction, I have dived head first into this latest redesign. I want it to be the following two things simultaneously:

• Eerily familiar
• Like nothing you’ve ever seen

Sounds illogical and impossible? You underestimate me, my friends.

I have a knack for resolving logical paradoxes.

That’s all for now. How were all of your Thanksgivings? Can you believe it’s almost December? Aren’t you all just super duper excited about the site redesign?!

Humor me, folks. I’ve been (trying to) humoring you for a long time, after all. Fair is fair.