Inevitable Changes in the Seasons

As the days get longer it is easy to notice subtle changes that mark the inexorable cycling of the seasons. Soon enough spring will be here with the inevitable spring cleaning. Can't say I'll miss this winter much, a few more weeks I will have had my fill. There will be plenty of work ahead. The gardens will need a fair amount of work to ready for the next growing season. Don't know much yet about what we'll grow this year other than a lot of it will be pretty and some of it will be edible. There's still a bit of time to make up our minds but we shouldn't tarry too long.

Speaking of tarrying, a few days respite from my side project let me breathe easy for a bit. But now I'm anxious to get more done. Did a bit today, a test database conversion, a quick function test of the tagged production copy. All is working well and the situation seems to be fairly well under control. The scheduled backups chug along like clockwork. The production server is stable, has plenty of storage, bandwidth, and cpu capacity left for now, so when the side project goes to beta I should be alright. Next step to finish the prep work is to get the latest version of the shopping cart and back port the custom edits as well as test the migration path. That will start tomorrow. By the time spring comes I hope to have a beta version of the site up and running, even if it is a stripped down rudimentary beginning.