trasna.net

WordPress 1.5 gamma

How exciting. I’ve been doing catch-up on how to manage and customize WordPress and stumbled across the 1.5 gamma release. I downloaded it and ran the updgrade. It took me all of 20 minutes from download to finish. These guys are doing an excellent job of releasing solid products that are friendly too. I like this new theme very much. It is a good palet to start with. Now… on to the customizing.

Longing for Spring

This picture was taken in late fall of 2004 when these 2 chairs retired for the season. They are patiently waiting for the return of nice weather when they will resume their places in the yard and be returned to service for our use and enjoyment.

I am looking forward to Spring. We have had a fair amount of snow this year although it hasn’t been anything like we’ve had in the past. I do like the snow. Part of the adventure of living in central New York is enduring the snow and cold and the ever changing weather.

patience…

Who is Musyoka?

That would be me. I am an African-American who has been searching for his roots a long time. My search hasn’t been exhaustive by any means. More like a wish, or a desire to know more about my ancestors.

My Name is Ronald Denby. I have been involved in missionary work for a number of years now. Just last summer (2004) I had an opportunity to go to Kenya as a missionary with members of my church. That was quite an experience. A highlight for me was that I received a name while I was there. I was assisting with pastoral training one day. I can’t remember exactly the context in which it came up but I was telling the Kenyan pastors how much it meant to be to be in Africa. I explained to them that even though I don’t know what part of Africa my ancestors came from I am certain with a high degree of confidence that they were from Africa. It had always been a dream of mine to come to Africa and I felt as if I had finally come home. One of the Pastors said to me “we will call you Musyoka”. I asked why and he said it was KiKamba for the one had gone away and has now returned. It was a moving experience for me. I have a KiKamba name that puts me more in touch with my roots. So, Musyoka is me. I thought too it was and appropriate name for a blog. – visitors will leave and (hopefully) return to the site.

Why?

I don’t like blogging. Or more specifically I don’t have enough to say that I think would be interesting enough to others to want to read. Personal journaling is one thing but putting it on-line for all to read is another. Topic specific blogs are interesting enough. But, I find it very difficult to think of something to say frequently enough to make blogging worthwhile for me and useful to others. So, I’m going to try my hand at this and see if I can make something worthwhile out of it. To do this I need to make some committments.

1. Blog daily (is blog a word yet? and what part of speach is it? noun, verb?)
2. Keep away from the self-aggrandizing entrys.
3. Be honest.
4. Post about stuff that interests me.

There may be more later on.

Welcome

More to come…