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Rebekah and I have added two new albums in our image gallery: Weekend in the Woods and honeymoon pictures. Enjoy!

While working on these pictures, I was struck by how much of a hassle it is to use different software for my image gallery and weblog. I'm going to reinvestigate the possibility of using Drupal for my image gallery in addition to my weblog. I mean, it is a content management framework. Images are content. It seems like a no-brainer.

I know there's an image module for Drupal, but I think I tried it out and found it lacking features I wanted. I'll have to have another look. Of course, if I end up deciding that a Drupal-based solution can work, I'll have to import all my pictures. And there's probably no Gallery import script, so necessity will again force me to write one. Oh well, at least I'm bringing something unique to the Drupal community.

Speaking of importers, I've been working on a Blogger importer. I'm almost finished, save for an issue with importing comments. I've had to hack my way to access the Drupal functions for adding nodes, comments, paths, and users, since no formal method to do so exists. I may work on that (again) once I'm finished with this importer work. Ideally, there would be an API to access these things.

There are so many more things I want to write, yet I feel bad for hijacking my own post. And I don't seem to have the courage to sit down and get the words through my finger tips. I miss staying up until two or three in the morning, posting about whatever came to mind. I don't feel like I have that freedom anymore (and said freedom-deficiency has very little to do with being married, thankyouverymuch).

Sometimes, I'll be experiencing life and think to myself, Self, this would be a fantastic topic to write about! I'll begin to think through the opening sentences in my head, working on the wording, etc. Then, I either get caught up in the reality of my full-time job or computer-less apartment and lose track of the whole thing. Part of the reason it's taken so long to upload the honeymoon pictures is that I wanted them to accompany a story I was going to write about our trip. That story never materialized, so neither did the pictures. I finally gave in and just posted the pictures, hoping that I'll get to the story sometime. We shall see.

A lot of Things seem to be building together to try to sour my life. Well, it ain't working, Things. You're going to have to try harder. Or, better yet, give up your futile attempts to give me a nervous breakdown! I will not succumb! Muhahaha!

Anyway, I hope more will be coming your way from Oslo soon. 7:30 comes pretty early, so I must be on my way. And yes, I was a bit exclamation happy this evening. Toodles.