Anne Truitt Zelenka

In twenty short minutes I need to be at my son’s school to help paint the Hamlet set. He is half a Hamlet, splitting the part with another student. Happily, he gets the “to be or not to be” speech. I’m in charge of programs and helping out with the set. Good stuff. It’s so fun to practice the lines with him, especially the scene where Hamlet tells Ophelia to get herself to a nunnery.

We close on our Denver house on Wednesday and my father has offered to get it all ready for us so that when we touch down on March 26th with three children, a dog, and god knows how much luggage, we can move right in. Thanks, Dad.

I’m flush with stuff to do and have had to put almost all my tech play on hold. But I want to put my plans here, as a declaration of what I will do when I have more time. It’s kind of like a UNIX user’s .plan file.

• Switch to WordPress from Blogger (Anne 2.0) and TypePad (The Barely Attentive Mother). I feel encouraged by web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman’s switch from handcoding his website to WordPress.
• Buy a Mac for the first time in fifteen years. Maybe I’ll even buy two. I want a laptop and I want some all-in-one type deal to put close to the kitchen where the kids can use it while I keep an eye on them.
• Get back into OPML experimentation–especially get my scripts working that will take the BlogHer blogrolls and convert them to OPML so I and other contributing editors can easily keep our feed readers updated with the latest additions. Or maybe BlogHer already has that capability planned… I need to check into it.
• Spend more time learning about what’s happening with enterprise software. My professional background is in database app development and design. I don’t want to be solely a social media software junkie. It’s boring to look only for solutions to my own individual-level problems.
• Also get to know more about enterprise solutions for content management. That’s one of the main types of software my husband will be promoting in his new position in Boulder. Cool. I think we may actually have some overlap in our work in the future–blogging software is just content management, after all. So far, we’ve had very little overlap in our professional work. I think it will be fun to have more.
• Meet Stephen O’Grady and the other Denver techies. Go to a Denver tech meetup.
• Rationalize and refactor my blogging. I don’t know how much longer I can keep up with three different blogs, especially as I plan to start working for pay again sometime this year. Plus I have a few other opportunities that have come up that I need to consider carefully.