Welcome, Spring

It's been a long time since we've seen you last. Actually, you're kinda lingering in the doorway a bit. Usually you've made your arrival known well in advance with some kind of January thaw. In fact, I'm a little disappointed in your performance to date. I'm not mad, just disappointed. I expected better of you. Well, welcome home anyway. Hope we enjoy your stay.

Relay For Life

Dear Family and Friends,

I’ve decided to take action against cancer by participating in my local American Cancer Society Relay For Life® event. Relay For Life® is about celebration, remembrance, and hope. By participating, I am honoring cancer survivors, paying tribute to the lives we've lost to the disease, and raising money to help fight it.

Please help support me in this important cause by making a donation. It is faster and easier than ever to support me by making a secure, tax-deductible donation online using the link below. If you would prefer, you can send your contribution to the mailing address listed below.

Whatever you can give will help - it all adds up! I greatly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress.

Sincerely,

William Gauch

To make a donation online, visit my personal page.

Happy New Year 2008

I thought about putting the standard three exclamation points (!!!) on the title, but it didn't quite seem worth it. I appreciate the passing of another calendar year as much as the next guy, but I the triple-bang is a little extreme. I was asleep with the passing of the east coast ball drops. I was awake at 11:30 and again at 12:40, but not at 12:00. I don't think I missed anything.

I must say, however, that there is some small part of me that is excited to see what the turning of the calendar will bring. I'm sure there will be lots of changes. Of course, I'm sure that most things will stay the same. Actually, the most significant changes will most certainly be in my daughter. One year from now, she will be two years old and even more of a sentient human being than she is now.

Going forward, I plan to live by the following motto (as much as possible): Remember the past. Anticipate the future. Live in the present.

Merry Christmas

Or Happy Christmas or Happy Holidays or whatever you feel makes you warm and cozy and filled with the spirit of love and sharing on this fine winter's day. Now, I have to get back to putting things in stockings that I should have done last night.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I don't know if I really need content to this post. Really, what more is there to say? I hope everyone eats more food today than they do in a normal week. Maybe I could say that I hope I people don't notice that I plan to wear my biggest pants today so that I don't have to unbutton the top button. Maybe I could just say something nice. I hope all those bins in the supermarkets filled over several times and everyone at least has something to eat today. Yeah. Yeah, we'll go with that one. Happy Thanksgiving.

Site Redesign Galore

My new and improved site should be “live”. I have redirected the XML feed so those of you who subscribe should find it seamless, other than the fact that every post I ever made is new. I had 2 casualties in the move. I have no idea what caused it, but the same thing happend once before. For some reason, moving directories into my root directory on my server causes my genealogy page and my gallery to go belly up. I should have those back online very soon (maybe tonight, but definitely by the end of the weekend).