Seems we’ve found our new handyman. He’s a very chipper and friendly sort who just moved here last year from the UK. So far he seems to do good work at a reasonable price. He shows up precisely on time. And he’s not a scary redneck like so many handymen around here. He does not, alas, resemble Handy Andy in any significant way. But that’s OK.

For those of you who are keeping up, I’ve finished migrating all the old content into WordPress except for 1999, 2000, and the first nine months of 2001. Unfortunately, that was one of my most prolific periods, so it may take a while. I also haven’t yet gone back and corrected all the internal links. But I did finish my two big  goals for this month, which were to get this particularly important weekend in 2001 converted before our seventh anniversary later this month, and also to get the Planet SOMA US Tour 1998 ready to celebrate its own tenth anniversary, which starts Saturday. I hope to have the rest done by the end of November at the latest, but we’ll see about that.

Pistolera
Nuevos Osos, 2008

I had a friend once — a queer ska librarian by trade — who told me he thought I might be more of an archivist than a librarian. Having finally gotten to the part of  my archival management class where we actually toured the university archives, I decided that he was quite correct. I’d suspected it all along, but as I moved deeper and deeper into that freezing cold, cave-like room full of meticulously-maintained boxes of paper and other random stuff, I just got all giddy and excited. I was afraid my classmates were going to notice my stiffy. It was almost embarrassing.

Cool. KOFY’s back, dogs and all. It’s a desperation strategy, but it might work. Of course, they wouldn’t be in this predicament if they’d hired me to do their website when I interviewed for the job seven or eight years ago.

OK, they might still have problems, but they’d at least have a much more attractive website than they have now.