Runalong

OK, after examining my options I was much more impressed with blogspot than I thought I would be. So please link to my new site:

ultrapastor.blogspot.com

I still haven't added all the features and options that I want to (including links), but I'll be posting more frequently since blogspot is about, oh, 17 zillion times faster than RapidWeaver. There won't be any more updates to this site but it will stay up semi-indefinitely for those of you who are looking for the Europe, Swiss or Haute Route pics (just keep scrolling).

Well, duh; I wouldn't be "runalong" if I stopped moving now, would I?

But I'm going to be changing blog software and my blog address sometime in the next two weeks. This site will remain open for awhile to direct folks (both of you) to my new site. I'll be glad to be rid of Rapid Weaver, whose slowness and buggishness have been two of my main reasons/excuses for blogging so sparingly as of late.

Stay tuned for details.

I'm sure most of you remember the classic rock song by that name. Well, the hit tune has now been made into a real blog! David is a professional writer so don't expect any of the trivial drivel you find here at Runalong. Lots of Harry Potterish insights though, from an evangelical Christian perspective:

Moral Imagination Now

My house is torn apart, in a manner of speaking, as we are putting in new flooring in the kitchen, living room and dining room (aka "Blogging Central"). Thus, not much blogging until all the king's horses and all the king's men do their thing.

I don't like this blogging program at all. It has been slow and buggy since I started using it. I much preferred iBlog, but when it got all weird on me I couldn't get any technical support to fix it and so switched to RW. It just "ate my homework" again after I spent half an hour doing this week's entries. Maybe I'll just have to switch to Blogger.

September was busy (as you could tell by my infrequent blogging), October will be too. So as not to frustrate my few remaining (and long-suffering) faithful readers I have decided to henceforth publish Runalong on a weekly basis, on Mondays. I'll enter stuff as I come up with it and publish it all each Monday. Check in once a week and I'll try to make it worth your while!

Two months between posts seems like long enough, eh? I've been back for two weeks but have been getting caught up with stuff. By Monday I'll have my first entry and pics from Europe up. It was a vacation of a lifetime, yessirree, Bob. Spread the word!

Runalong (the blog) will be in a deep trance the next six weeks while Runalong (the Magnificent!) is traipsing around Europe with his wife and daughter.

After visiting with missionaries in London and Madrid we will join up with our missionary daughter in Germany's Black Forest. From there the three of us will take trains and buses around Switzerland, visiting the German, Italian, Romansch and French sections of the country. We will be hiking and staying in hostels and barns and farms. One three-day hike will take us from Liechtenstein into Austria and then into Switzerland; our final two week trek will begin in France at Chamonix and follow the Haute Route to Zermatt, Switzerland with views of Mt Blanc and the Matterhorn.

I won't be taking my computer or cell phone or checking email or blogging- I'm one of those people who believe that the best vacations are those that provide the greatest breaks from "normal" everyday living.

Lord willing, I'll be back in early August with lots of pics and videos and stories; tanned, rested and ready for action!

Where did the April posts go? It appears that on May 1 they automatically archived themselves- you'll find them near the bottom of the sidebar. I don't have time to see if I can de-automate that or not. And while were at it, where did the 20th century go?

How's this?

Barbara was complaining that she couldn't read my new blog because it showed up as black on blue on her computer. So I'm trying a different look. This program makes it easy to change looks so maybe I should just publish a different look each week. OK, maybe not. Anyway did anyone else have that problem? I changed programs to resuscitate commenting but there hasn't been much commenting on the new blog. Is it because you're all black and blue? Is this any better? They all look fine on both my Macs.

Now if I could just figure out how to get the sidebar to look the way I want it...

Well I went ahead and bought RW, I hope it was a good choice. In many ways iBlog was more convenient. It was easier to set up the sidebar, I could use little logos for my categories, and other things were more intuitive or were only a click away. But Rapid Weaver seems to have better support and a brighter future and hopefully it will keep getting better. I haven't decided on a theme yet (the overall look), there are two or three supplied themes, including this current one, that I like but I might shell out a few bucks and buy this one as I like the wood look and I'd like something with variable widths and a little more adaptability. RW has a steeper learning curve so maybe that will help me keep Altzheimer's at bay for a few more years.

we are weaving rapidly.