Durosia State of the Empire

I've decided that every month I'm going to run updates on what's what for all of my sites. Here, I won't go into any specifics about the other blogs--they'll have their own update posts on their own sites if you're interested. (Plus, they are listed in the sidebar here, so you shouldn't have any problem finding them.)

That said, here's what's up in the Durosian "empire".

Looking Back

The first two months of the year have been... odd.

January kicked off with my furiously working on the Blogging 101 workshop materials after spending the first few days entertaining a guest. From there on out it was me always running just a little behind where I wanted to be. I still have to process through and update things for that workshop.

In other words, not a whole lot got done anywhere that didn't require immediate attention.

February also ended up being a bit quiet within these digital borders, too, but for a completely different reason. The big "push" weekend I had planned where many things would have gotten done end with me sitting in an ever more chilly apartment, waiting for my power to come back on. That's right, it was the Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon one-two punch here in the DC area.

That snow also managed to cancel half of the regular networking meetings I go to.

But, so far this year I have managed to update things here a little bit. You'll notice on the home page that the number of main blog articles showing has been reduced to two. A new section has been added to the bottom hunk of the page, featuring four brief articles that are pulled in from my Delicious.com bookmarks. They post in automatically but don't seem to trigger the Twitter or Crossposting modules, I'm hoping to fix that.

Looking Ahead

March will hopefully see things fall back into some sort of sensible track.

There's a wedding I'm officiating (my second!) on the first Saturday. A couple of weeks in is the premiere of a friend's film and the whole daylight savings time shift. And St. Patrick's Day.

This month's meetings and get-togethers:

• 8 March: DC Drupal Meetup
• 10 March: DC Bloggers Meetup
• 12 March: Game Night
• 14 March: DC Independent Film Festival - Ghosts Don't Exist
• 24 March: DC Media Makers
• Ongoing - Saturdays: Spellbound (most weekends, I'll be there)

Here at Durosia.com I'm planning on getting a little more substantial re-design complete. Also a few more in-depth postings on the recent political goings-on, both on the national level and back in my home county. And, as always, whatever else tickles my fancy.

So, yeah, not a lot of concrete stuff here. But Durosia.com is, after all, more or less a connection hub for everything else I do. So be sure to check out whatever sites of mine best fit your particular interests to see what will be going on there.

Until next time, keep on keepin' on, people.