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Developments at jaymekohler.com

I normally steer clear of the typical “website news” post, but since I haven’t written squat in damn near two months I thought I’d fire one down range to get everyone up to speed on the changes around here.

I’ll try to keep it short.

1. If you’re reading this post via my email notifications, you can now effectively manage your subscription preferences (where once you were subject to a forced mailing list with no way out). This includes selecting or opting out of any category you wish, as well as unsubscribing altogether. This functionality had never worked in previous notifications. Additionally, you can subscribe directly to email notifications on your own if you aren’t already.

2. ShareThis has been added. This enables you to share any post you like via email or social web service without leaving the page. No account registration is needed to use this service.

3. New photo gallery software is installed and running in a new location on the site. I’ve got a couple albums uploaded for 2008 to include plenty of pics of my platoon of recruits.

4. There’s a new category called Gallery which I’ve assigned to posts with a significant amount of pictures. ‘On the lighter side’ is one in particular, and those posts have links leading to their appropriate mini galleries in the miscellaneous album. All my Found porn posts have a gallery of their own where you can find a collection of all the images.

I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work on the code that makes up jaymekohler.com. You may even have seen some different themes pop up a few weeks back, but I decided to keep the one I built from scratch.

The five year anniversary of jaymekohler.com is May 23rd, and I’m debating whether or not to compile my posts into something printed for distribution. Did I say write a book? No, so don’t get crazy over this thing. I’ll try to dig up some old screen shots for embarrassment’s sake.

I’ve got almost twenty new posts in draft status waiting for publication. This proves I’ve been accomplishing something in the past two months, just not being very timely about it. Being a new DI keeps me plenty busy, averaging fourteen hours a day on the recruits and 4-5 hours a sleep a night. My weight loss has exceeded twenty-five pounds and I have cheek bones again! I didn’t realize how grotesquely fat I was until I started losing it. More details on the physical toll of drill instructor duty to come (yet another unfinished post).

My birthday/Cinco de Mayo was a complete bust. I worked all damn day and didn’t even get so much as a Corona. But instead of rambling on like some sad, sorry bastard letting it drag me down, I decided to recognize all the ways I’m [Mexican] brown on the inside. It wasn’t too difficult.

Keep your chins up, jaymekohler.com readers (be it collective or individual). I’m not dead yet.