Congratulations to my brother and my sister-in-law, who just had their wedding ceremony on Saturday. (They eloped a year ago.) While I wish happiness for them both, I swear if they make me an uncle I will bring down a terrible unholy wrath upon them.

I dreamt I was herding sheep, but I couldn’t see them only feel them. They were all very soft. An invisible dog would bring me a sheep, put it in my arms, and I’d place it in the pasture. Someone yelled “Wolf!” but I didn’t believe there was a wolf or I didn’t believe I had to be worried. Then I felt the wolf, invisible, press against me and take a sheep from my arms and it felt so so soft and silky. I felt guilty for losing the sheep. I felt terrible, like I had killed it myself. I urged the remaining sheep and the dog into the safety of a nearby house by opening the door and yelling for them to run, to get into the house. But I couldn’t see the sheep or the dog or the wolf to know what was happening and I felt afraid that more sheep would die or the dog would die or I would die. That was the end of the dream.

The last couple months of silence have finally come to fruition, the House of Milk and Tar has received it’s fifth overhaul. Complete with a few new features and organizational changes. Readers can now enjoy an open (more or less) folksonomy, when navigating to a single post’s page (by clicking on a post title in most cases) readers are given the opportunity to suggest tags to categorize the post (however, they must be submitted one at a time and they are moderated for approval). Readers can also reply to comments now, though the system is a little clunky. As for the organizational side of things, the photography page has disappeared and will remain that way. Instead photos and other visual ephemera will (eventually, I haven’t actually got this part up and running yet) be directly added to the blog via posts. I’m switching my image hosting from Flickr to Zooomr, since I’ve reached the 200 photo free account limit at Flickr. You can still see my older photos by tracking down my Flickr account at the “elsewhere” page. Bookmarks are in a similar state, I plan to add them directly to the blog via posts. In addition I plan to post more miscellaneous content, originally the goal of this blog was to force me into some kind of daily writing schedule. Now I’d like to expand the focus into a more personal direction. I’m still tying up some loose ends, some content has been removed for formatting reasons and some content is not quite ready to be added to the site yet. I probably won’t be free to post very much for another month or so, and expect a few things to change as I flesh out the site design a little more.