It’s that time of year again. Last night Donna and I took Spencer to his first ever Candlelight Service at New Life Church, and I think it’s safe to say he had a blast (I sure know we did). On the way home last night I got to thinking about how special this Christmas is […]
Archives for December 2012
Turning 40 & The End of the World
Okay, so I have set this blog post to publish at one minute after midnight on December 21st, which according to the Mayan calendar is supposedly when the world will end. Ironically, they picked my 40th birthday to be the end of the world, go figure. I guess if you are reading this, then… well, […]
Update: Diabetes Picked the Wrong Guy!
I’ve had some people ask so I figured I would post an update as to how things are going two weeks after being released from an unexpected week-long stay at the hospital where I learned that I have type 2 Diabetes. I’m happy to report that my blood sugar levels have stabilized at our target […]
Using [shortcodes] in WordPress Widgets
I figured out a cool trick this evening that I thought I would share. Let’s say you have a shortcode that you would like to display inside of a wordpress text widget area, just locate your theme directory and edit your functions.php file to include the following: add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop'); add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
Diabetes Picked the Wrong Guy!
I’ve had a lot of people call, text, and email me this weekend to ask why I was suddenly off the radar and in the hospital last week. I figured it would be easier to blog everything once than it would be to respond to each and everyone separately, so here goes… I have secretly […]