_10:24
Leaving for Wilderness State Park
In about 10 minutes Jason Perton is going to pick me up and we’re going to leave for the week and get lost up north. Every year a bunch of my closest friends and myself travel to
Wilderness State Park for a couple days just to relax and get reflect on the year past and the year to come.
It usually ends up with running through the woods, building TP’s out of trees, having various Indian sweats, and chopping logs for the bare Log Cabin room we stay in.
We try to bring enough stuff with us to not have to leave the cabin until it’s time to leave. It’s a 3 1/2 mile walk just to get to where are cabin is. That’s 3 1/2 hours farther than our car is allowed to take us into the woods. We do our best to get close but there’s always a good hike that a motor vehicle will never be able to make.
I won’t be posting until I get back but I hope you all have a Happy New Years. Feel free to post what you’re planning on doing or did do for the Holiday. All the while thinking of men and a couple other young men running with sticks in the wilderness.
posted on December 30, 2002| 10:24 AM EST
_15:26
Frustrating Web
I’m growing more and more frusterated with the state of the web these days. Everyones off doing their own thing and
those people doing their best to give the web structure are surrounded by
bleep‘in
FrontPage crackheads.
People are simply stupid - this is all I can think of to explain the state of the web. Give them a little chance to do something and they’ll screw it up. I’m not saying people shouldn’t be able to enjoy but if you want to add then learn the rules and reasons for why things are so. Don’t just answer some questions in a (supposed) wizard and go tell your friends that you’re a web developer.
For those of you that are just learning contact people that know what thier doing. Feel free to play around and learn but do just that - Learn.
If I got a penny for every time I saw font tags placed around non-breaking spaces or miles of tables just to space something over 5 pixels - I would honestly be a multi-millionaire.
Sadly this site isn’t perfect either. It doesn’t validate and isn’t using the best coding philosophy to better the web. That’s why I have to redo it.
The only thing I’m stuck on right now is a design. My tired brain can’t create beautiful layouts anymore. My job is to pump sites out on command within days - sometimes hours. Almost all my creativity has left me and I’m damned to sit and stare at my empty Photoshop 7.0 canvas.
posted on December 26, 2002| 3:58 PM EST
_8:41
Christmas Then & Now
When I was younger Christmas was only one magical day. You couldn’t sleep the night before and when you woke up you’d be so excited you’re little body couldn’t hold the energy back. The only way to deal with the intense energy was to jump on your parents bed trying to wake them up.
In our house we had a tradation of eating a big breakfast fit for kings. One of those breakfasts that filled in every little spot in your stomach and left nothing to be disired.
After that we would all sit together in by the Christmas tree and read the Christmas story out of the Bible. Praying would proceed the reading and after that is when you’d be able to open your presents.
Each year someone was allowed to be the Santa. The Santa was the first one to venture into the huge pile of presants and got to pass out Christmas gifts to everyone.
Years later with a beard
Time passes quicker than you ever could have guessed. You hear people say things like,
“Don’t Blink - or life will pass you by!”. I never really understood that until the past couple of years. I found myself looking back at what Christmas used to be and wondered why it wasn’t as exciting.
I was somewhat excited on Tuesday that the next was Christmas but mostly because I didn’t have to work. I got a paid day off and that, in my mind, was great and going to be used to sleep in.
I didn’t get that big Christmas breakfast and ended up eating some rice crispies to satisfy my morning hunger. I then picked up my room, read a couple websites, and was off to my girlfriends house because her mom was making a Christmas lunch.
The lunch was perfect and filled the same places that the breakfasts I had as a child. The only thing different was that it just wasn’t the same. All I wanted to do afterwards was lay by the fire and take a nap.
Later that day Jodi and I exchanged gifts and I got everything I wanted. Some clothes and some computer stuff that will make my life just that much easier. I gave her some yoga books and some yoga classes among some other little gifts.
The day was a lot of fun and spending it with wonderful people made it that much better of a Christmas.
It all ended with a movie and skippo around the dining room table.
I have one more Christmas party to go and the Christmas week will be over. Like I said - it hasn’t been as magical as my youth but that’s not to say I didn’t have a great time.
Merry Christmas All
posted on | 9:05 AM EST
_10:00
Needing to rethink my site
Some of you may have already seen some little changes on my site. I’m slowly trying to recode a lot of the backend of this weblog. I currently use
Greymatter with some slight modifications of my own. It’s been nice and really helpful but over time it just can’t hold up to what I want to do.
I’m hoping to move to a much better Content Management System like Moveable Type here in the next couple of weeks. The biggest reason for the change is fuctionality and code it outputs. Right now Greymatter doesn’t spit out the most compliant code (unless heavily modified) and the guy that made Greymatter doesn’t want anything to do with the program anymore. He’s moved onto new things.
Moveable Type is still going strong and coming up with new features. My only concerns are importing my 250+ posts into it and having it all work as I want. Needless to say it will be a long day that day.
A recent article by Meg Hourihan on the O’Reilly Network site gave me that much more reason to quite pondering on whether or not I should redo my site and start the whole process soon.
For being a person that evangelizes the importance of web standards and the beauty of CSS - I’m far from where I need to be on my site. I might just use the same design but convert it all into CSS but I’d really like to change the style and explore new territory.
Plus I need to make room for other things that I’m hoping to put on here.
posted on December 24, 2002| 10:15 AM EST
_1:37
New House Correction
After looking at what I wrote yesterday I thought I should clear up something. Where as I am buying a new house - Jodi is also buying it with me.
I will continue living with my friends and paying low rent plus half the mortgage of the new house. Jodi will be living at the new house, making it nice and paying the other half of the mortgage. It works out rather nicely because I still want to live with my friends and Jodi would like to move into her own place.
posted on December 21, 2002| 1:37 AM EST
