10 years of blogging! April 15, 2018
Posted by Mike C. in Internet, Personal, Technology.2 comments
13 years ago, I created MikeChimeri.com, which was a WYSIWYG site created in software called Yahoo! Sitebuilder. One of the pages on the site was “News from Mike.” Before I knew what a blog was, I used that page to periodically update visitors on the latest events in my life. Over the next three years, I learned what a blog was, learned that WordPress was a common site for blogging, and decided to create my own blog.
Ten years ago this evening, The Mike Chimeri Blog was born. I published four posts that evening. I linked to the first two sentences ago, but here are the second, third, and fourth posts.
I kept MikeChimeri.com up for four years before deciding to merge that site with the blog. I completed that merger on May 14, 2012. As I wrote that day…
The Mike Chimeri Blog is now the new MikeChimeri.com. This change was two months in the making. Resources from the old MikeChimeri.com were moved here, the domain was transferred to a different host, and the nameservers were transferred to WordPress. It’s the old MikeChimeri.com pages and files combined with The Mike Chimeri Blog pages, posts, and files.
But don’t worry. You can still reach this site from the old mikechimeriblog.com domain. You’ll just be redirected.
Enjoy!
Thanks for reading The Mike Chimeri Blog and the current MikeChimeri.com for the last ten years.
April Snow April 3, 2018
Posted by Mike C. in Personal, Photography, Weather.add a comment
This year, Easter Sunday fell on the same day as April Fools’ Day, April 1. The meteorological April Fools prank came the next day, yesterday. So much for March 21 being the last snow until the fall. Overnight through mid-morning, a few inches of wet snow – 3.9 according to the National Weather Service – coated the ground, though not as much on pavement.
It didn’t take long to shovel what fell, nor did it take long to melt afterward. I was able to run 4.8 miles late in the afternoon without encountering snowfall on the pavement. There was only occasional mud and puddles to go around.
Shortly after I woke up, at 8:57 AM, I took pictures in the front and back of my house:
I spent 45 minutes shoveling, then periodically photographed the melting progress.
Noon:
1:52 PM:
For a time Sunday night, it seemed that there would be still more snow on Saturday, 15 years to the date of another period of April snow, but that is not happening now. For the record, here are pictures from April 7, 2003:
I’ve had my fill of snow. Let’s stick with rain until at least November. But no tropical cyclones, please.
4/4 UPDATE: Snow is back in the forecast for Saturday. I’ll have a post up afterward.
4/6 UPDATE: Measurable snow is back out of the forecast. There may be snow showers, but they will leave little or no accumulation.
4/8 UPDATE: We didn’t even get rain showers.
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