My old blog has been permanently shut down and archived for printing. After twenty-two years I am making a fresh start here. I started the old blog, chapmankids.net/blog, in 2004 and never thought it would last as long as it did. I started it about the same time we started homeschooling our kids. I wrote about some of our house remodel projects and my retirement PhD that I finished when I was 68, but have still not retired a couple of years later. That all kind of fit in the old blog, but the kids are in a new place now and so are my wife, Lorena, and I. There were a lot of good reasons to end the old blog. It ended abruptly on April 5, 2026, twenty two years almost to the day of when it started.
The reason I decided to start a new blog was because, many, many years ago, I heard that people who journal tend to accomplish more in their lives than those who do not. I am not sure that is true or not, but I do know that I accomplished a lot more because I blogged than I would have if I had not. It organized my thoughts and efforts and kept me on track to myself and to God. Just a couple of years after I started the first blog, I started keeping track of my Bible reading and that, too, served the purpose of keeping me accountable and getting my priorities straight.
I plan to write about different stuff than I did before, although there will be some common themes and topics. I have several fairly longitudinal projects going that I plan to talk about, from my volunteer research on hydrological imaging, to the AI work I do in my day job, to health and exercise, and whatever else catches my fancy.