2001: I really didn’t write much about the events on 9/11/2001. Only 3 posts, of which this one was sort of prescient.

What better way for the government to get what they want than to scare us all into believing that we need even more government to protect from this big evil boogeyman in the Middle East?

And 9 years later we are still chasing boogie men in the Middle East. Also in September 2001, we adopted Fenway and Isabelle. I did not remember that coinciding with the attack in NY.

2002: Not much excitement at all. We went to the beach, bought a house, and I was pondering if I looked like Johnny Unitas.

2003: I learned that Rachel from Friends wants me. Hurricane Isabel visited the day after Breck and I returned from an epic road trip. Wow, that was really 6 years ago? I’m thinking we need to repeat that next year.

2004: Meh. I wrote about homeschooling a lot. None of it is worth dredging up again though. And Breck met one of his favorite authors.

2005: Our Outer Banks vacation was cut short by Hurricane Ophelia, and I spent the entire month debating the HoNDA bill with Attorney Scott Summerville. It had something to do with homeschooling, but I remember none of the details and I really don’t care anymore.

2006: I broke up with Movable Type and started a new long term relationship with WordPress.

2007: We went on vacation to Philadelphia. I posted my first ever attempt at making a movie (not connected to the vacation at all).

2008: I was blogging a lot about the 2008 election. None of that needs to be rehashed. We went to our first 4H State Horse Show.

2009: I read College without High School, and we went to the State Fair. Editorial note – Delaney is hard at work on 8-10 entries for the State Fair this year.

You can tell we are homeschoolers. We tend to be traveling in September when everybody else is back to school I’m not sure what I expected from this exercise, but I sort of thought I might have trouble picking only one or two posts from each September to highlight. I had the opposite problem. Apparently, most of what I write here is meaningless tripe. But maybe that isn’t news to y’all.

We’ll try this again next month. If I remember.

I wouldn’t do something that bad for a joke piece here on O’DonnellWeb. I’ve heard of Judson University, and my general impression was favorable. Was. Photoshop fail aside, Michelle says there are actually some interesting articles in it about financing college, scholarships, etc. So thanks Christian College Guide. Just don’t expect to see either one of my kids attending one of your advertiser’s schools. It’s not really their scene.

A GUI just seemed to add overhead I didn’t need to deal with.Then I found s3cmd, an open source command line tool for Linux. Win!!! It can do an Rsync with Amazon, but again, not really necessary. My MP3 library is not dynamic. I add on average 1 album a month, So I’m copying my music and photo library up to Amazon, one directory at a time, in the background as I do other stuff on the laptop. This also gives me an opportunity to decide if some of the music on my server is really worth keeping. Once I get the photos and music up, I probably will set up rsync with my docs directory. I already back up the media server to Breck’s PC, so the Amazon files are triple redundant.

However you do it, make sure you are backing up everything important.