Through early Jan' (Webwork mostly)

I had recently had a breakthrough with webwork via Google sites, Wordpress here, and an honest to goodness web-design job for my church. Consequently, I put a lot of miles on Dumbo (my mac). If that sort of thing interests you..

• Web-work
  • Studio (this site)

As You can hopefully see, I've been working on this personal site (which hasn't got a name, but has got something called a "studio" in it.  I'm inching irrevocably towards opening up the sluices and trying to offer some of my talents/built things/writings online.  It's empty right now, but soon some of my more finished ideas should start trickleing in.

"Garden" Not sure why I built this section all those months ago, but it does feel "happy" having a brighter, sunnier area of the site.  Perhaps I'll try to segregate my writings, ideas, and sellables by area, or maybe just keep that area for the  sunny fields of contemplation for which your lyric chicken-herd is known. "Bock!"

Site "Chapel" My efforts here are still pretty rudimentary, especially alongside E'.  But it does feel more intimate and cozy.. especially alongside E'.

• • St. L site(s)

Note: Fr. Tom still hasn't replied to my questions concerning the site, and until he does and some other parishioners weigh-in too some of the features may radically change..

Bulletin boards- This is the heart of the site (from the parishioners point of view).  It is a much improved community forum to serve as a meeting hall and "live" parish bulletin.  In the wake of the church break-in Les and I have been hoping to use it to deliberate some possible security improvements, but we'll need the input of other's before long. Incidently, I made a second bulletin board for St. Lawrence that's private so's the parishioners could have a place to discuss financial, security, and other matters they don't want the avarage joe to be privvy to.

Prayer list-  Did you know that you can now see and even print out St.L's list of needy folk.  Consider doing so and placing the copy on your fridge.  I'll try to update it atleast monthly, and, should the site ever actually begin to be somewhat frequented (hint, hint), you never know when someone may need you to offer it up for them.

Gallery and tour - Alot of you have seen my photo's of this pretty little church. I also have a  sketchup Model of the Church. I intend to blend the two together to help introduce potential web visitors to the parish.

• • E'

A thousand little improvements do not, a feature, make.  However, after stumbling into the start-your-own-community-buildable-site for St. Lawrence, I made a bunch of what I now call

writing desks and have been installing them throughout E'.  The most filled-out one is in

Sacred Hearth ( which, rumor has it, may possibly, eventually, theoretically, hopefully have a visitor or two to help enliven it's empty corridors, long filled only by the mutterings of one weird little man.)  Anyway, I'll be

Working at moving all the scattered, sprawling, still-born, site ...  texts into these workbenches, where they should be much easier for me (or others!) to work on. ..Could occupy me for some time.

I put the Homepage on it's most severe diet yet (thanks to the writing desk {the white bar up bordering the header area}) and took off all the text, links, and other clutter. They provided functionality of a utilitarian kind, but at the expense of the site's larger purpose of approaching that otherworldly quiet found in real monastery's and church's.  Anyways, after they were all gone, one thing I really missed was the link and reminder into the liturgy of the hours and saint/seasonal liturgy.  They're back in the form of some quasi-usefull sculptures I hope to refine some more.  Look for them (though they should be obvious, and if not I need to know)in the big square display niches (hole's in the wall).

• Readings..
• Doings..