InvertedMind has, as recently promised, been completely overhauled.  But I’m sure you can see that already.

Here’s what it means for you:

• Archives are gone.  They’ve been replaced with a calendar.
• In addition to categories, posts are now organized with tags.  A “tag cloud” is now present at the top of the right-side menu.
• Design is cleaner and wider, reducing the amount of scrolling necessary to read a post.

There will be more changes in the near future.  Let me know what you like and don’t like.

Sorry for the lack of posts the last week or so.  The site's admin section has been broken.  Posting to resume tomorrow.

As you were.

Yup.  I've been gone a lot lately.

InvertedMind is collecting some dust these days, because I'm not managing my time as well as I would like.  To that end, I have decided to implement a schedule.  Mind you, this is likely to be amended and more likely to be circumvented on a fairly regular basis.  But it's what I'm going to claim to be shooting for.

Each week I want to feature four pieces, as follows:

Sunday - The Journey: Spiritual thoughts from yours truly
Monday - Cool Crap of the Week: Something I find interesting
Thursday - Mindless Ramblings: The usual, but with a slight change*
Saturday - The Good Life on the Cheap: Tips for having fun on a budget

As for the other topics, you can expect to see them peppered in at random.  This is just a guideline for me to post regular content, because, after Her Cuteness goes to bed, I manage my time about as well as Rosie O'Donnell could manage the Little Debbie factory.

Not really.  if you've read 1984 or Animal Farm you'll certainly get the reference and, rest assured, it's nothing like that.  But the time has come to institute some rules in this anti-Utopian state I live in (that would be the State of Denial), just to keep this place running smoothly.  So check them out and consider yourselves warned.  I have a wet noodle waiting for the first offender.  So come on, I dare ya…

Hey folks.  Just wanted to drop by and leave a quick note that I'm on hiatus from the site for a little while.  I've got some soul searching to do right now, and I'm just having some trouble putting together something coherent enough to write about.  With it being the holiday season, it's a little tougher than I had expected.  It's been lonely, but in a way it's good for me too.  James 1:3 nails it: "… because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance."  It is only through our struggles that we can most clearly see our blessings.

Bear with me and, if you are so incline, send a little prayer this way.

Is InvertedMind dead?  Did he fall off the planet?  Get hit by a rogue piece of falling space debris?  Lose his Internet connection?

You aren’t that lucky.

No, unfortunately, I’ve just been insanely busy.  See, Her Hotness, Her Cuteness and I are in process of buying a house.  It’s a quaint little place — nothing palatial but certainly no single-room fishing shack on a frozen lake in northern Saskatchewan, either.  No, we’re heading for slightly warmer climes, out of the hustle-and-bustle of the Washington D.C.-Boston stretch of I-95 (seriously, about four miles from here the Interstate is eight lines wide — and they’re starting construction to widen it to 10) to the slightly less crowded, and considerably more resident-friendly, northeastern parts of Raleigh, N.C.

Because of those plans, though, I’ve been seriously lacking in free time.  You all understand, I hope.

See the next post for a little something to hold you over: a new edition of Cool Crap of the Week.

While I don’t anticipate this being a regular occurrence, I do have to postpone the weekly post again.  A project at Big Feet Media is in full-blown late-stage development and I need to focus on it.  However, see above for the new weekly feature to go along with the Weekly Ramblings: Cool Crap of the Week!

Sorry, and thanks for sticking with me through the delays.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, today’s ramblings will be late.  However, barring a lightning strike (actually possible today, but highly unlikely, of course) I will hopefully have it posted by 2:30 p.m. EDT.

You probably noticed something a little different here.

For years I’ve written the code behind this site. I used it to keep my skills sharp and to experiment with new things. But anyone who knows me will tell you that I don’t need the practice. That’s not as arrogant as it sounds, because I don’t mean I’m that good. I just mean that Big Feet Media is generating more than I can handle at this point, so I’m getting my fill of writing code. Besides, with so many blog suites out there, why was I continuing to reinvent the wheel?

To that end, so ends a chapter in the life of InvertedMind. The layout now looks different because I’ve switched the site from my homegrown blogware, known internally as bfBlog, to WordPress. It has everything I want and then some, which means InvertedMind is better for you. It’s also more secure and has far more robust controls for writing posts than bfBlog ever did — simply because I was the only one using it, so it didn’t need to be more than the bare minimum.

Enough about crap you don’t care about. Along with the changes to WordPress comes something of importance to you: a schedule. My goal is to write a new post every Wednesday. That way I have a better way of providing you with entertainment, and you can be sure that when you check back Wednesday morning, you have something to read. Posts will be just as nonsensical as ever — come on, the site changed but I sure as heck haven’t.

So sit back and enjoy. Scheduled posts start on March 14th. Until then, you never know when or what I might write.