Ramblemuse Touch Points

After a too long hiatus, Ramblemuse Touch Points (RMTP) is active again, now updated to current WordPress and restyled to match the main Ramblemuse.com theme. For help with the learning curve on creating a WordPress theme from scratch, I can point to a tutorial at wpdesigner with thanks. The tutorial was organized the way I tend to self-learn, increment-by-expanding-increment of hands-on application.

The hiatus in my writing this blog had multiple causes, including that I had time and mental energy enough to “Tweet” but not to compose longer pieces. A large piece underlying that condition of fatigue was the combination of my own job transitions with my wife’s diagnosis of invasive breast cancer last September. The same week in September that I went off of the LLNL payroll, she went into surgery. She is now post-chemotherapy, just about to start radiation therapy, and with an excellent prognosis. She’s now back to gardening and planning, with friends, to do the “Bras for the Cause” walk in a couple of weeks. It has been a long but survivable journey for our familily.  I can only humbly thank the many friends who’ve lent us support, both locally and via CaringBridge.

While it still, at times, feels that we waddle on through molasses, things are back to regular enough that I’m once again scanning through journals and RSS feeds for things I find interesting or irritating enough to comment on. Please stay tuned.