One of the things that I would like to do this year is pay more attention to this site, even though I still need to find an "identity" for it. Is it a personal site? is it a technical? should it be one or the other? While I figure all of that out you will continue to see a combination of entries in this space. Now, what has been going on these past few days? This silence is not exactly how I wanted to start the year but things happen.

Flood alerts, golf size hail and even Tornado warning? no I am not talking about a day in the Texas Panhandle but it was just the kind of day we recently had. Not to compare this with other real catastrophes, but it has really taken us by surprise. Some parts of Sedona had to be evacuated a couple of weeks ago due to a rain storm and with more rain on the forecast for this weekend, fears of more evacuations are on the rise. Here in the valley the rain has been creating some chaos with road closures and even bridges collapsing. Certainly not your usual Arizona weather.

On another front, we finally have downloaded the images from Christmas and New Years but as usual I need to process them before I can upload them to the site. I also need to review the New Year’s images since I know there a couple that should not be made public in order to protect the innocence of those involved.

So this is my message that will kick off the year and where I make the observation that I will try to put more attention to my site and hopefully you will find a reason to come back to it. I know the semi-daily photo gallery could use some help too :o)