I was wondering why my email traffic was light this morning.I let siteseers.net expire this week and didn’t find out about it until today.

If you need to email me while siteseers.net works its way back into the Internet, you can try me at siteseers.com instead.

A combination of financial need, business opportunity, and my dislike of going to work each day has spurred me into a book project. A few months ago, I got started on a book about the Asterisk PBX system. I put it aside, becoming busy with other things like moving. Now that the move is (mostly) done, though, it’s time to finish the book.

I’ve also had a number of inquiries regarding my Asterisk experience. My Asterisk business is attracting attention and I intend to grow it as best I can. A book would be a great way of advertising that experience as well as provide me further education on this great system.

I drove off today with my two girls waving goodbye to me. The one I’m not married to was yelling something to me as I backed out, so I rolled down the window.

“All done. Daddy all done.” she kept saying over and over. In other words, Daddy don’t go.

It really, really, really hurts to have to drive away from that kind of love.

We were sitting down to dinner last night when Kelly noticed movement along the property line. With her keener vision, she quickly ruled out the usual suspects, rabbits. Instead, there was a dog-like head sticking up over the weeds.

It was a red fox. A big one, too. As I stood up to look at it, I caught glimpse of a white tail bounding away from the fox and into the woods. Apparently, one rabbit will live to see another day.

The fox seems quite at home in our backyard. Kelly went out to the deck and tried to spook it, but the fox just nonchalantly looked over at her before resuming grooming its long bushy tail.

I’m glad the foxes are here because the rabbit population has gotten way too big around here. I told Kelly I wanted to put out some water for the fox. Anything to make it want to stay! She laughed and reminded me of the existing creek on the edge of the yard: no need for any more water.

Nice to have new friends in the area.