I’ve been really frustrated lately because I can’t find any details from my books in a timely manner. I’d worked on the character sheet, and like that a lot better than the old one, but I’m still losing track of things. Too many files, too much information, too many details in too many places and no easy way to get from here to there.

Over the last week or so, various bits and pieces of the puzzle finally fell into place, and I realized that I make “content management systems” for a living, and what I desperately need is a system to manage my content. Duh!

So, the last couple days have been putting together a web server on my home machines, syncing my desktop with my laptop, loading the CMS software (Drupal) onto it, and now building the organizational structure to support my in easily finding the information I need when I need it.

Like everything, it’s taking 10-times longer than I ever thought it would, but it’s not totally wasted time… right now I have about 8 sites using this CMS, so everything I learn about it applies to all the sites and makes the job from here on out much easier.

So that’s my New Year’s present to myself.