To do for blog: Where's Seth sticky note; Asides: paper clipped to the left edge, small strip of paper; Polaroids; Sidebar cleanup; ma.gnolia link; Comments page
One of the coolest Christmas presents I got was a TomTom GO 510 GPS. For those of you that know me, you may remember stories of me getting lost in the city of Joplin, lost on the campus of OU, even lost in my own neighborhood. Now I finally have a crutch helpful way to get around, accompanied by the sultry British woman living inside the TomTom. Why yes, I did choose a sultry British woman to do the voiceovers. Mmm. However, this tale of romance ends with woe: she left me. I have to send it back for repairs because it was broken out of the box– the back was cracked and the Bluetooth doesn’t work. How will I ever get back to OU? Oh wait… I’ve made it fine for a couple years without a GPS. Yay no worries!
My mom was looking at my blog redesign yesterday and decided that she wanted a blog too! So I spent a couple hours setting her up with TrinaKinast.com. Her color choices, not mine… at least I kept her from using a yellow background :O I should bother her until she blogs; then she’ll know how it feels!
I go back to OU on Sunday for RA Training. This is only the fifth time I’ve been trained over the same material, but the regs say we have to be retrained each semester. All in all, it’s a small price to pay for the RA package, and it’s nice to see all the RAs from other centers that we don’t get much time with during the school year. It also gives us some nice time with no residents and peace and quiet. Of course, the fact that we have the gigabit connections all to ourselves for a week doesn’t hurt either…
I'm implementing asides as a way to talk about things that don't just warrant a full blog post. Thankfully, this should allow me to post such things much more frequently. And they look sweet too!
Wow, it really has been seven months– more than that, actually– since I last blogged. I’m sorry.
It was one thing after another. “I’ll do a new blog when ZetaBoards is done.” ZB got done (or at least I was done with ZB). “I’ll do a new blog when I have a lull in coursework.” Physical Chemistry was a beast, and I started my research this semester. “I’ll do a new blog when winter break comes.” I start studying for the MCAT. But at long last, I gave in to Nicola’s pleadings and set aside time to hash out a new blog… because if I didn’t get it done soon it was never going to happen!
This is the first time I’ve had someone wonderful like Nic to work with on a personal design. She made theming ZetaBoards so much easier; I can code, but I have little color sense and less graphical ability. But wow, was this blog design so much easier with her. I just needed to lay out a general idea of what I wanted (sometimes with MS Paint illustrations!) and she would go to work. As I coded the HTML and CSS, she would supply me with graphics to drop in place. And this is the result– a blog that has more eye candy than my first blog (css-only, circa 1998), second blog, (maybe a background… remember the black-on-scanlines?), or even third blog (modified Kubrick). It’s truly a treat.
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to follow Sam in blogging every day. So let’s see if I can’t bring this site back from the dead ^_^ It isn’t fully functional yet, as there are no comments or pages, and some things are broken. But I can’t stand not blogging anymore, so let the posts begin.