The pain has gone down quite a bit but it’s not starting to look any better. With my eye looking as beautiful as it is, people definately take a second look and wonder what the story is behind the obviously discomforted eye.
A few clients asked (jokingly) what I said to my wife for her to hit me that hard. Others took second looks but tried to act like I didn’t have an abnormal eye. For all of them, I would usually make up a funny story about a meeting I was in with someone that wouldn’t take no for an answer.
As for how it feels, it’s definately better than yesterday but with the sun coming through the office windows my eye would throb or pulse with pain until I looked away.
Overall - Day 2 hasn’t been near as bad as Day 1.
posted on September 30, 2005| 8:30 PM EST
After some back and forth scheduling, Dave Muma and I started playing racquetball every Sunday at 4:00pm and Thursday at 6:30am over at the Dow Center.
The first few games were filled with a couple close calls but this morning, in game 3, I served the ball to get things going but when I turned around, Dave swings and the next thing I know I see a tennis size ball coming straight for me. There was no time to turn away from something moving at 95 miles per hours (guessing) and I got hit straight eyeball - not even time to close my eyes.
Next thing I feel is my hand hitting the floor as the other is holding my newly injured and throbbing eye. It hurt - a lot - all I could do was lay in the middle of the racquetball court trying to figure out if my right eye was still in my skull.
Dave of course ran up to see how I was and felt terrible for his power swing. The rest of our racquetball time was spent holding ice on my eye and thinking about all the meetings I had schedule for that day. It was going to be an interesting day to say the least.
posted on September 29, 2005| 11:22 PM EST
For those that are curious - the conference was great. A group of us went down and when we pulled up to the Westin Ohare, we were all wide-eyed at how nice the place was. The group at Gospelcom has always put together top notch conferences but being it’s 10th anniversary, everything had that extra touch put to it.
The first night was just getting settled in and finding our rooms. Paul and I also used the extra time to work on our first presentation - Web Workflow. We both spent quite a bit of time on our other presentations but hadn’t had a chance to sit together and work through what we were going to say.
We ended up working on the presentation right up to time we had to speak. Even while I was getting my mic on, Paul was still tweaking a few slides.
We were so rushed to get started that I didn’t even think about how scared I was or if I knew exactly what to say. About half-way through, we started to have a lot of fun with it and close out the talk with some good question and answer time.
The second presentation was just myself but I wasn’t all that worried now that I had one under my belt.
Overall the event was awesome and I got good marks from attenders - even some that said I should come back next year :-)
Quite a bit more happened but I’m trying to filter all that went on. So check out a few of the presentations along with viewing some of the flickr pool of shots.
posted on September 25, 2005| 3:08 PM EST
Every once in awhile a traditional college will do something cool. Something that says, “We listen to our students”.
Emily Brondsema, a junior at Calvin College (in 2005), put together a web app that allows prospective students to organize their rooms online - before ever seeing the space.
And what exactly is “The Dormulator?”
It’s an online program that allows students to view a virtual image of a residence hall room, scaled to the dimensions of an actual Calvin dorm room, and to arrange the room, rotate its furniture and change the furniture colors. Though she based it on a similar program from another university’s website, Brondsema has added several distinctive features to the Calvin version.
Calvin article: Dormulator Up for Two Awards
This is a great example of a cool little app that brings a lot of excitment to the college. As simple as it is - it’s probably the biggest/best advertising tool they have had in years.
posted on September 21, 2005| 11:31 AM EST
A few months ago the owner of Century Driving School gave us a call to help them setup their network. We had the opportunity to connect all their locations to a single network - allowing them to use the same databases and information.
After that project, they gave us a call back to see if we’d be able to develop their website. It wasn’t going to be a large site but while chatting with them - it was definitely going to be a fun project.
Elevator Up was hired to take the templates already designed by them and code them up in valid XHTML and CSS. We also had the chance get a little fancy and use Google Maps to present their locations. Integrating Google Maps, with help from Dan Morrison, was personally my favorite part of the project and I think it turned out nice.
So check out the site and let me know what you think. Make sure to click on the little balloons to see what’s hidden in them.
posted on September 20, 2005| 10:08 PM EST
