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I created an application that I hope will make holiday and birthday shopping for family members even easier and more fun that it already is. I got the idea last Christmas when I was shopping for gifts. Before buying something for someone, I'd call other family members to coordinate to make sure they hadn't already purchased the gift I was thinking about getting, so we wouldn't duplicate our efforts. I realized that it'd be much easier if everyone had one central location where you could see a list of everything everybody wanted, that could be updated as soon as something was purchased.

I am obviously not a blogger. Only five posts in almost a year? Well, in my defense, I have been working on a number of projects. Most recently I've been getting into ASP.NET and developing some solutions using C# and a SQL Server DB. Check out my .NET sandbox site.

Also, I've been working on mobile development a lot lately, especially for Android. Not quite finished with those projects yet but I'll post them when I am.

Been so busy I've totally slacked in keeping this up to date. For the first six months of 2011 it seemed playing 4 days a week was the new norm. However, Bruce DeMoll is back from his surgery and has resumed his position playing Sunday's at the Blennerhasset, which means I now have my Sundays free again (much to the delight of my wife and kids). And the summer gig schedule is pretty bare right now, other than some weddings and occasional gigs at the Blenny. So I'm looking forward to using this summer downtime to learn some new skills and read some good books.

I just added a new gig to my weekly lineup, Sunday Brunch from 11-2 at the Blennerhasset Hotel in Parkersburg (WV) with Will Crichton on Bass and Bill Keller on Drums. I don't know exactly how long the engagement will last as I'm filling in for the venerable Bruce DeMoll, who has been the house piano player for years but recently had to take some time off due to a hand injury.

After about six months I usually get the itch to change something on my site, and this time it just happened to coincide perfectly with the release of Drupal 7.

So here it is, my new D7 site!

I'm still tweaking things here and there so if you find something that looks incomplete or just plain wrong, it's probably on my to-do list. I hope you like...

I'll be playing February 5 at the St. Mary's School in Marietta, OH, along with my usual partners in crime, bassist Will Crichton, drummer Bill Keller and Tim Marks on sax. This dinner is a fundraiser for St. Mary's school in Marietta, and this is the third year that they've asked us to play. Always a good time, and some great food as well.