Writing code, not prose

I broke a personal record last month, not that I am proud of it -- but I wrote something on this website only ONE time during the entire month. But this was not an isolated event, my writing output has been steadily going downhill all year:

February: 11 posts. March: 10 posts. April: 7 posts. May: 3 posts. June: 1 post

See a pattern there?

But now that I think about it, I guess that my writing output hasn't really changed, but just the medium has changed. In the last three months, instead of writing stories about my life, I have written code. Lots and lots of code, at least for me. It comes out to about 2000 lines of code so far. And I am not even a programmer.

But if I am coding that much, that means we are making progress on our "Learn Thai Language" website. We are running a few beta tests this week, and really hope to be able to launch something by the end of this month. I can hardly wait.

I did get a chance to do some traveling over the past month, however. My annual faculty meeting in the US was held in Denver, so I made a quick one week trip a couple of weeks ago. It worked out great for me, as my sister and her family will be moving there soon, so they were all in town looking for a house to buy. And Mom and Dad couldn't be left out, so they joined us as well.

We did quite a bit in the few days we were together, including going to a Colorado Rockies baseball game and hiking a bit through the Rocky Mountain National Park. The Denver area is a beautiful place, and so I look forward to having more family reunions there soon.

And perhaps the best part was that I was able to spend some time with my 5 month old niece, Ava Marie. She is an adorable little roly-poly. And of course she is the cutest and smartest punk rocker on the planet! Hopefully the Thai Language lessons I gave her will stick.