I’m sitting here feeling pretty exhausted and watching the season finale of The 4400. I love this show and was delighted to hear that it will be returning next year for a fourth season.

Friday night, Saturday and part of today was spent helping Amber move into her new home. She is now the proud owner of her very own home. She went through a lot of heartache, trials and tears during the process, but she hung in there many times when she wanted to just remain a renter. Here in Orlando it is really tough to find affordable rental housing. Between apartments being converted to condos and apartment rents continuing to escalate into the stratosphere, it’s really a losing proposition (more than ever before) for people to continue to throw money into the short term benefit of paying rent. So congratulations to Amber for buying her first home, even though she swears she’ll never buy another one, lol.

Tomorrow I am treating a friend of mine to lunch in exchange for her WordPress expertise. Hanni and I have “known” each other for a little over a year, however that knowing has only taken place here in cyberspace. We have never met in person (though Blog Girl has had that pleasure and declared her to be “great!”), but that sad state of affairs will be remedied soon, thankfully before she and her husband move out of The City Beautiful for his job.

What that means, I hope, is that soon you will see changes here in the cave as I put my new found knowledge of the blogging program into practice.

I don’t know about you, but Ernesto is giving me strong feelings of deja vu all over again. I feel like it’s 2 years ago and Charley is about to happen once again. I hope everyone is taking steps to be prepared.

Making Some Progress

Well, folks keep asking, “When will you post again?” so here’s a short entry and thank you for asking.

I really wanted to get everything just right here in the cave before beginning to fill it with posts, but my schedule has not afforded me much time to work on the WordPress program particulars to begin accomplishing what I want to as it pertains to decorating the interior of The Blog Cave. So far I’ve only added an “About” page and listed my favorite blogs over there on the right. By the way if I haven’t listed yours give me an e-mail “nudge” to remind me.

Last Friday afternoon Blog Girl and I had the honor of attending the wedding of Natasha, one of my co-workers. This was the first Hindu wedding ceremony we had ever seen (except for the one in “Bride & Prejudice”, a Bollywood version of the Jane Austen classic, “Pride & Prejudice”) and I found it to be very interesting and extremely enlightening. The ceremony is very ritualistic and full of symbolism, not only for the bride and groom, but for the family as well. The entire ceremony lasted about 2 hours and was as beautiful as the bride herself.

Saturday I spent at the first annual (hopefully) Orlando Comic-Con and I have posted a series of “live, sequential” entries from that even over at Orlando Metroblogs, if you’re interested in looking at that.

Saturday night we went to the reception for Natasha and her now-husband Kevin, along with some 350 family members and guests. We laughed, danced, drank, ate and, in my case at least, made a fool of myself by dancing with the belly dancer that was part of the entertainment. I may not have had the dancing part down, but I sure did have the belly part. I’ll be adding pictures from the wedding and the reception to my Flickr album and it will be added over on the right in the near future.

Oh, also over at Orlando MetroBlogs; on August 10th I had posted an entry about Disney raising its ticket prices on the heels of an announcement that they had just reported the highest profits ever for the company ($1.13 BILLION) and the following day the good folks over at The Disney Blog were kind enough to link to that post. Stop by and say “Hi” to them, they’ll appreciate it.

Hi,

Welcome to my new cave. I’m still in the process (obviously) of setting things up and decorating. I’m using WordPress this time instead of MovableType as I did at the old cave, so I’m trying not to run off the learning curve as I familiarize myself with the new program. (If there are any WordPress pros out there, I’d love to hear from you. I have questions!)

Anyway, I’ll be getting things fixed up in here over the next few days, so drop back by and see how bad the WordPress program has kicked my butt!

And thanks for stopping by.