I have been wanting to change the look of my site for quite a while but could never seem to make the time to design a site that I would like to look at every day. I also had a hard time finding a free template that I liked. Well I finally found one that caught my eye. I’m gonna test drive it for a few days and see what I and others think.
You will immediately notice the complete lack of pictures and widgets. I was really wanting to go for that whole minimalistic thing. But in case any of you actually care about what I am listening to at this moment, or who my Twitter friends are, or random pics from my Flickr account, or my latest XBOX 360 stats…… I’ll probably get around to finding a home for all that on another page. I kinda like the whole clean look. However, I am considering replacing the cherry blossom branch with my name. We’ll see.
Here are some pictures (from my camera phone, unfortunately) for you all to check out. I hope to post some pictures of our house that I took with the real camera. I just need to upload them to Flickr and then post them here for you all to see. The ones I took of the house with the camera phone look bad. But the ones I took of Myles in the yard amongst the lights are viewable. And for good measure, I threw in a couple of pictures of Myles trying on his new tuxedo. Can you say cute?
Has it really been over a month since I posted anything here? My apologies. I can’t really complain about my family and friends not utilizing the social capabilities of this site when I can’t even make time to keep it updated!
So here we are, Thanksgiving week, and December is almost upon us. It’s been a busy month. Marya spent the first 10 days of November in Italy while Myles and I stayed home. Don’t feel sorry for us guys. We had a great time. At least now I know Myles really likes beer and strippers!
I also spent a whole Saturday competing in the 2007 AIR Houston competition. AIR stands for Accessibility Internet Rally. The competition consists of various teams building websites for Non-Profit Organizations. Everyone has 8 hours to take a design and build it out into a a fully accessible Section 508-compliant website. All government and non-profit websites have to meet certain accessibility guidelines. I’d say my team did pretty well. At least we feel like we did. We’ll find out next Thursday at the awards banquet.
So this week I can look forward to getting the house presentable for the friends and relatives that we will be having over for Thanksgiving. Then on Friday I get to drag down all of the Christmas boxes from the attic and start getting ready to do up the house and yard. It will probably be a big pain doing it but it will all be worth it after it is done.
It was real good seeing and hanging out with Bill for a couple of nights, even if the circumstances that brought him here were not so good. We send our best wishes and feel confident that all will be good. We put in some time with Gears of War. That’s always fun.
I’ll end with a brief mention of the Rockets.
Well, we started out great. Tracy got NBA player of the week in the first week of the season. Yao was looking a lot like he did last year at this time before he got injured. Bonzi and Mike James were playing great coming off the bench. We beat San Antonio. We were 5-1 before dropping 4 in a row. It’s OK, though. It’s eary in the season. We have brand new coaching staff. We have many new players. Tracy has been out with an injury. Our schedule has been brutal, loaded with many back-to-backs against great teams. I have no doubt that this team is fully capable of making a strong run come Playoff time. The All-Star ballot is up. Use the widget below and vote for Tracy, Yao, Shane, and Luis now. Thanks.
Anyway, that’s about it. I’ll try to post at least once a week so you guys have something new to read. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Web designer from Houston, TX who intends to make the world a better place... one post at a time.