{"id":28024,"date":"2010-08-21T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28024"},"modified":"2010-08-21T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:45:12","slug":"our-cat-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/our-cat-in-the-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Our cat, in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anatoly Ryzhenko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2004 when I was visiting Spain for a month, I posted an ad on Craig’s List in Melbourne for a web assistant for a project, and a guy named Anatoly responded.<\/p>\n

The website I was creating was a side project called Planet Waves Parenting<\/a> (which never quite took off). I had him redo the front page template about 12 times before we got it right, and that was my big clue that the guy was great. He has turned into our best friend here at Planet Waves. His role is part technical, part spiritual. He produces all the content you see, for example, this and many other Word Press blogs. He can plow through work like few people I’ve ever met. Yet I think his role is mostly spiritual. I think of him as Buddha with a Bulldozer. I can be a moody, overworked Cancer rising; he is consistently cheerful, alert, and ready to tackle the next five projects. And he is our highly protective chief of security.<\/p>\n

Anatoly creates the pages of Planet Waves Astrology News each Tuesday and Friday, and then manually inserts as many as 100 edits in a typical Friday edition, one at a time. In other words the pages are not created “by computer” but rather by hand — and that is why they look so good. Together, we put the same kind of care into emails that goes into designing print pages.<\/p>\n

He and I have worked together around the clock for six years. We’ve spoken maybe 15 times in that time span — our relationship is part psychic, part Internet. He is a graduate of the Russian navy, as a member of a submarine crew. He has knowledge of Latin, having translated a book of 50,000 quotations from Latin into Ukranian (with a collaborator). And it seems the best part of his life surrounds his wife Iren and his daughter Kate, who is seven. He lives in the Ukraine, halfway between Odessa and Kiev, a mysterious, ordinary part of the world I hope to visit some day.<\/p>\n

Anatoly turns 37 today and I thought I would introduce him, thank him for his amazing work, and let him know how much we adore him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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