Adele’s Aerie

I found myself in a strange situation a couple weeks ago, of needing to define the term “sysadmin” for a new friend who is not computer-inclined. I’ve surrounded myself too much over the past few years with people who exclusively live, eat and breathe IT buzzword and acronym bingo, a situation I intend to bring to a close as quickly as is convenient.

Here’s how I explained what I do for a living to an interested, intelligent, non-computer-inclined person:

You were curious about my work…
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Yes, I’m finally relocating from shakal.org to adeleshakal.com. Pull up a comfortable chair, have a cup of tea and be welcome.

Tea makes everything better. In fact, here’s a link to my favorite tea shop: Infusions of Tea

I’m still moving some of my older content from both my shakal.org site and my LiveJournal, but since almost all of the content from shakal.org is now in place, I’m directing visitors here rather than the older site. I’m up to October 2002 in moving content from my LiveJournal, please pardon the construction dust…

If you’ve linked to or bookmarked any of my pages on shakal.org, please update your links and bookmarks, and accept my apologies for the inconvenience. After more than a decade, this website move was really necessary… but if it’s any consolation to those updating links, it’ll probably be at least a decade before I move again.

Thank you for reading here!

While I was doing all of this website spring cleaning, I’ve also heeded the grumbling some of you have sent my way that I didn’t have any photos of myself publicly viewable on Flickr. Fine, fine… I still have a bunch of more recent and some older photos I need to upload there, but here are at least a few so y’all can stop grumbling at me.
flickr.com/photos/naturedance/tags/adele

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