You may have noticed that my site looks different now. I am sorry to admit that the change was involuntary. Recently, between new projects coming in (Yay!) and the emotional strain of dealing with the situation with my parents, I have been crazy busy. My primary commitment is to my customers, which means my own site has been suffering the fate of the cobblers children. In other words, I have been ignoring it.
In addition to time constraints, the other reason I have been ignoring it is because my theme was not plating well with WordPress 3.7.1 and simply broke when I upgraded it to 3.8. These issues have been invisible on the front end (I have at least been checking that), but it meant that to get in, I would need to give the site serious time that I just didn’t have to spare.
Right now I am in California for a friend’s baby naming (before you ask, the kid is a year old and she has had a name this whole time, but the naming is basically a service welcoming Anya into the community). I kinda hoped I would get a bit of a break. So, I decided to finally deal with my site. After several online chats, 2 disconnects and a couple of blind alleys, we got the site up and running again. But, at the cost of abandoning my theme before I had another one ready to replace it.
This all brings to mind a conversation at the dinner table last night about work/life balance. As you may recall, we were in Spain this past Spring visiting David’s cousin Mara. Well, Mara and her boyfriend are back in the US and they are both kind of appalled at how stressed out all of their friends are. It seems in Spain that people are much more laid back. That matches my impression as well. They lived there for 3 years, so I trust their assessment more than what I got in my two-week visit.
So with that in mind, I could spend a gorgeous sunny day inside working on a replacement site or I could go for a walk in the redwoods. I know my site is an important business tool, but I am making the executive decision to leave the site as-is for a week or so until I manage enough of my backlog that I can give it the attention it deserves. In the end, I will be happier and healthier for having taken the break.