Peter's Thoughts

This is a personal blog of a non tradional college student in Alaska

21 May
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Photo Galleries

At some point I might be adding a gallery to my site. I don’t know if I want to use the Gallery 2 software or use WordPress with the NextGen plugin on this site in a separate install. Or to integrate the potential gallery into this blog. Granted that there are pluses and minuses for any which way I would go. Though I might just upload any pictures to Flickr.

When I’m thinking about doing one of the options above I just wonder if I should set up a separate domain and have it dedicated to digital photo’s that I would potentially start this summer.

Anyways, I know what I like to do but at this point I’m just wondering out loud as to what would be the good/best option when or if I do setup a gallery. Though most likely I would do is to set things up and try out each option before making a final decision on the setup of the gallery that I want to do.

bye for now….

19 May
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doing some site updates

For those who are interested, I’ve done some minor updates to my main site. Its all of those little things that I’ve missed when I did a last update to my site which was some time ago. I also did a few things to make the links more highlighted – though that may not be the right word to use. Anyway, my site should get an updated look to it soon, which I’m starting to plan out.

As for this blog, I’ve changed the theme to something more “colorful” than to what I had before on this blog. So, if you do come by this blog leave a note in the comments if you like the new theme or not.

Speaking of themes, when I get my system the way I would like, I’m going to try and sit down and develop my theme for this blog and the rest of my site. Though it would be awhile before I would actually sit down and develop one.

Anyway, there’s probably going to be some more miner updates to my site over the this coming summer. However its going to be a hit or miss type thing, since I would be moving to a different city this summer – I might said where in another post. In other words I’m going to be busier than normal this summer.

Bye for now….

Peter

21 April
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blackberry test post

I’m doing a test post from my blackberry phone.

16 April
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End of a chapter and the beginning of a new one

Well, it looks like that this is the beginning of the end of a chapter in my life. Which I’m sad to see it come to an end. Over the last year hasn’t been easy for me nor my family to “some” extent. Between Feb., 2009 to about September 2009 have been traveling between Fairbanks, AK and Anchorage, AK with a relative for medical related reasons – had passed away last fall.

At the present moment I’m going through the process of moving to a new place – which would be Oregon. Either way moving is a big deal for me.

Even though I wanted a change of some kind its just the way it had come about that wasn’t unexpected. However, the fact that the relative that I’ve been helping over the years died caused things to be “rushed” or at least the feeling of being “rushed” along.

Anyways, with all of the major changes that have been going on its just something I’m trying to adjust to. And the fact that I haven’t moved to a new place in a long time – I don’t have a problem with moving itself – its just the process that I’m not used to in dealing with.

Fairbanks has been my home for the last 15 years, of course I would have some attachment to this city. At the same time I’ve been wanting a change for the last 3 to 5 years. As I’ve said earlier in this post it’s the way I didn’t want things to happen this way in order for things to change in my life.

As the title of this post suggests that this chapter of my life in Fairbanks, AK will be coming to an end this summer. I’m going to miss the routine of things that I had in my life over the years, but then change can be good. Though there’s a good chance that I could visit Fairbanks and Anchorage in a few years time – well maybe not in a few years time, just need to see how things go with my life in Oregon.

There are many things that I want to say and write down in some form but putting some of these thought’s into the writing form may or may not be helpful for me in the long run.

Anyways, saying goodbye is hard to do when its hard to say to a place for so long – though I could say “later, see you soon Fairbanks.”

Peter

Posted from Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.

23 November
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No new posts for a little while longer

With some recent events in my life since late August / early September …. writing blog post has been low on my to do list and will be for sometime to come.

Most likely I won’t be doing any sort of writing till after the first of the year at the earliest.

01 September
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lack of posts

Hello all,

Sorry of the lack of posts to this blog. Its just that I’ve been recovering from surgery that I had 2 weeks ago Monday night / Tuesday Morning. It was one of those totally unexpected things to happen to me even though I’ve been the healthy one in the family for a very long time.

Hopefully that my stay in the hospital would be the only one for a very long time to come.

bye for now….

Peter

21 May
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this site

For those who visit this site and those follow this site in a reader. I just want to let you know that I know that my blog is a bit slow at the moment. It’s partly because a plugin that I activated Google XML Sitemaps. I’m going to see how this one plugin works over the course of the next 10 to 14 days, if not sooner. Please leave a comment if this blog is really slow.

Peter

Update: things appear to be working better – hopefully things would stay at the same current level.

28 January
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Idle Thoughts (part 1 – maybe)

Note: This may or may not be part 1 of a multi part post that I *may* be doing. At this time I don’t know if I would do more posts along this theme.

There are many things that I wanted to write down into words and such. Its just that I wasn’t able to make a coherent and/or cohesive post. One of the things that I’ve been doing recently is that of thinking of the last 2 years or so. Unfortunately, I’ve been stuck in a situation that I haven’t been able to get out off – major family issues. I won’t get into specifics and if I did things won’t be looking peachy keen for me.

Let me say that there are people “pulling” at from many different directions and “wanting” or “would like” me to do things their way. Regardless of what I think is a good way of doing things. For example, one person wants me, in a way, just up and move while the person that I’m staying with recovers with any kind of assistance and expects that the person that I’m helping just jump back into the swing of things with no problems of any kind. This person, from my point of view and from I could tell from the specific person, basically wants me to work 40+ hours, do all of the shopping, house cleaning, drive the person that I’m staying with to and from a health care facility (which is a total time of 45 minutes to drive and back to the house each way). Also, pay ALL of the bills that this other person has and not including my own bills.

I could go on and complain about my family maybe in detail to some degree but I won’t. There are things that could be aired out but it probably be for the best that things shouldn’t be made known to a wider group of people.

After the events with my relative health and the last 2 yrs of getting back to a stable state of health. It has basically taken this long time to work out health problems that I won’t need to concentrate much or if at all on helping a lot around the house. Because of this I haven’t been able to what I want when I want to do whatever I felt like and had to put off my education for a little while.

As it is, it looks like that I’m going to have to and need to put going back to school till the fall of 2009. Not that I mind doing this, giving the way things have been going for the last year, in regards to money and family reasons.

Though I thought of transferring to another University shortly after a couple of years at the local University. It just so happens that I wanted/needed and should re-take some math classes and maybe 1 or 2 other remedial classes before I even think of going to another University. But then I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to study in. I haven’t been taking classes for the last year and I thought I haven’t been taking classes for the 2 yrs, and its weird that I thought of that just now. I was thinking of taking some classes this coming term, but I fell like that I’m not just ready to start taking classes again. In part because of my family life and another reason is that I’m not comfortable going back to school just yet. I know that I shouldn’t wait too long to take classes again and hopefully I won’t have to.

Once things settle down with my family life and things – hopefully – get worked out between various people and sorted, it might be then when I would go back to school and with my life. After taking classes for 6 years or so, I mostly know what I want to do with my life – generally speaking. I haven’t laid out any specific plans for the rest of life but I won’t be in Alaska for a long time. But I do know thing is that I want and desire a “simpler” life, just don’t want things to get kayo tic on a consistent basis. If things get really complicated with my life and/or doing things, I just can’t stand being in this type of situations.

As I might have said in past posting that I don’t like to get into specifics on this blog, is that I don’t want to deal with any legal issues. Which is why I try to say things in the most general since here on this site.

later….

03 December
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03 December
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