S l o w l y, I've begun to delve back into writing and tweaking little php scripts and Movable Type templates for the site. Why the long absence from developing the site wholesale? Obviously, the distractions of real life that involve people and stuff are an easy excuse. However, I suspect the real reason is the code nerd's equivalent of writer's block: spend too long away from your code and design schemes and any subsequent reacquaintance with these nuts and bolts feels like pulling teeth.
Regardless, I am sorting my way back into the flow of the site, so in the next few weeks you should hopefully see several functional addtions to the site, such as visitor sessions that will remember and cycle the photos on the main page, etc. Along with all this is, of course, a mind-numbing series of changes to how the site operates and organizes itself under the hood.
Wish me luck.