About

I originally registered gwheatley.net as a way for me to have a vanity e-mail address that I would never have to change.  I used a basic webhost with a cheap account and just used the e-mail feature and never really thought much about a website.  In 2007, I walked in the Breast Cancer 3-Day for the first time.  During that weekend I made a friend who had what I thought was a pretty cool Wordpress Blog.  She used that blog to post about things that interested her and I decided that I wanted to do the same thing.  Developing a blog would help me have a place for hosting updates for my 3 Day training and Walks.  It would also help me develop some other skills as I had never looked into what would be required to host a blog.  I started my initial blog using Wordpress.  Wordpress is a great blog platform for beginners and even more advanced users.  I am no longer using Wordpress for my blog though.  I converted my blog to Drupal a couple of years ago.  Drupal is a complete Content Manangement System that I have been working with for about 3 years now.  I use Drupal to maintain my Parish Website as well as a site for my daughter's swim club.  I really like the Drupal community and I keep learning more about as I continue to work with it.

My posting to this blog is pretty inconsistent.  I am trying to get in the habit of posting more and I think that will be easier now that I am back into 3 Day training mode.  I tend to post training updates more than anything else.  I guess that I want to let my donors knowing that I am training and preparing for the Walk that I am asking them for money for.  It's not just my 3 Day training that I am using this for though.  Every now and then I will see things that I want to bring people's attention to and I will use this to do that.  I am not sure that anyone even reads this but I am going to try and make a habit of using it more regularly.