Okay…I’m not really back–yet.

Posted by Doug on January 14, 2010

Yeah, I guess I lied about that last post–I thought I was at a place where I would again have time to write for Underpants Office, but real life has a way of getting in the way of many of the things I’d like to do. Underpants Office is not dead–just on the back burner for a while, until I can get some sort of routine worked out that permits me time to do the research and writing that a blog requires.

And maybe, with a little planning and some re-organizing of my professional life, I’ll get back to it sometime soon. But in the meantime, I wanted to post a shout out to Jon Daley, who hosts this site, who brought my attention to the fact that someone unleashed an “international botnet” to try to take down my site and the whole server–by the time he notified me, he had already taken care of the problem and done the plug-in upgrades I needed to solve the problem.

That’s uncommonly amazing service from an uncommonly conscientious hosting provider, and I am extremely grateful. In that one act of customer service, he has insured that I will continue to be his customer (not that it was ever in question, because Jon came highly recommended to me by a close friend and fellow blogger, whose judgment I trust implicitly in such things).

So while I’m here, I’ll update you on what’s been happening around the Underpants Office of late: the new job (now a year old) is going well. I spend about three or four days a week in my office at the church where I work “part-time,” and the rest of my time I spend working in my home office, usually on things for my church, as it turns out. Having this job (which I referred to in a previous post) has allowed me to hone several useful skills–I’m learning a lot more about video editing, using Final Cut Express; I’m doing some audio recording now and then, using Logic Express, GarageBand, and Audacity; and I’ve been forced to learn a lot more about Windows XP and Vista (the operating systems in use by several members of our church staff). And thanks to the acquisition of an Asus eeePC netbook (a freebie I won in a drawing at a worship-leader conference this summer), I’m getting my feet wet with Ubuntu Linux (specifically Xubuntu), since I couldn’t bear the thought of keeping Windows XP on the thing. (Is my bias showing?)

Perhaps the coolest thing in all of this is that I really like my work these days. That’s a huge change for me–in my former job in the non-profit corporate technology world, I had begun to dread going to the office almost every day; now I actually look forward to my work–so much so that I have to be careful not to work all the time.

So anyway, I’ll get back to a more regular blogging regimen in time. Thanks for stopping in.

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