No longer relying on the crutch that is Google’s Blogger system, this blog is living it up as a privately hosted WordPress system at http://blog.MikeRandrup.com as of right now! No further entries will be posted to Blogger. All old entries will be copied or moved into the new site.

At first, http://mikerandrup.blogspot.com was a great place to experiment with my first few blog posts. For long-term, this is the better solution. Nearly every word we type will be permanently indexed by the search engines, along with the page address they were found on. Those pages might as well be right on my website, right?

So bookmark now (if you feel so inclined), and take note of the new RSS feed URL:

http://blog.MikeRandrup.com

Last week I found out that an unexpected visit from a long-ago friend was in store for me. She contacted me on the barely-used MySpace profile I created a while back. It turns out she was to be in Dallas for a visit. (It also turns out that her dad has been in town for years, also an old friend, and I never realized it).

She came over for a visit, and introduced her long-time honey. I was finally able to do likewise. And the whole experience was strangely fulfilling and happy well beyond what should be reasonable. It was great to see her after so dang long!

At any rate, you may notice the big, dumb grin on my face in the snapshot. Reconnecting with old friends is awesome, in my opinion.