OK, I give up. I said I was going to create my own custom theme, and made some good progress on it, but it is eating up too much of my family time. In fact, most of my online activities tend to take me offline with my family and that is not what I want. So I decided to just tweak an existing (and elegant) theme that someone else did, and I am happy with the result.
I have also added a gallery to this website (instead of sending you to a different place), and I encourage you to check it out.
Mother’s day was great, my mom came over and spent the day with us. We laughed and played with the kids and ate some good food. I don’t know how I got this lucky, but my mom brought some fillet mignon for me took cook up on the grill. I had never cooked a fillet before, but they came out perfect. It was a very good day.
In the middle of a couple months of constant rain we got one day of sun and decided to take advantage of it. I have added some pictures to the gallery that we took (without any earlier planning) to remember that day.
I have been working on a new theme for this website, but it is not far enough along to activate it, so I decided to put up a temporary theme that will get me by until I finish up with the one I am working on.
I will also be moving most of my faith based content to another website over the next week or so and will use this site as more of a family based site.
Over the next few weeks there will be less posting to this blog, I am not neglecting it, but rather working on some new stuff for it and using all of my free time to work on the new direction.
I have been in the process of creating a new blog for my faith based content to live on and using this one for my family focused stuff. It isn’t because I don’t think it’s important to share my faith with my family, but rather I think that most of the people out there that would be interested in what I will be doing with the other blog don’t really care to see the new pictures of Rachael or Isaiah, and at the same time, I want this site to be more accesible to my friends and family without them having to sift through all of the other content to get to updates on my family.
Anyway, you can expect change in the future, and it won’t be in the form of bailouts or crazy social programs.
A couple of months ago I finished up work on my mom’s new website. The old one was very busy and not a very good professional representation of the art that she does. My thought with the new one was to make it much more professional and have more of a feel of mosaic art. I wanted to feature more of her art as well as make it more usable.
For the back end, I use XML files for much of the content so that she can easily add and rearrange items without having to get into any coding.
My mom uses her maiden name for her mosaic business because it is Italian and therefore more related to the Italian mosaics of old.
She has a bunch of pieces for sale and does commissions as well.
I have worked with Bill at Audio Video Systems (AVS) for a year and a half (I think), and worked with him for another couple of years when I was in California (he moved to Texas too and we got working together again). He’s a great guy, and even if I wasn’t in the industry, I would use AVS to do my audio and video work.
I have been working on a new website for AVS for the past month or so and have finally finished it up. It ended up being a lot more stressful than I thought because I underestimated the anticipation for it to be done. I had wanted to do it in my free time, so I could take all the time I wanted to play around with different ideas and see what I liked best, but once they found out about it, they started putting deadlines on it. So the leasurley pace that I desired ended up being a sprint to the finish.
It did turn out well though, and I believe that we are all happy with the results. Check it out when you get a chance (and subscribe or check back often for news from the AV industry), and leave a comment below to let me know what you think.
The past few weeks have been crazy busy for me. I’ve been consumed by a new website that I have been developing for my work. It has taken longer than I originally thought and has been more stressful than I originally thought (I think due to the fact that I should have developed it on my own time, without leaking it to my co-workers that I was working on it), but I think it will also be a better final product than I thought. I will post it up here when it is done (it should be this weekend), because I would love to hear some feedback about it from you.
On top of the busyness of the website development, I also had a bit of a health scare. I was in the hospital twice because of the issue and still have more tests to do before I can put it all behind me. I have a plan to write a lengthier post about what happened and my thoughts on the issue, but for now I think it’s good enough to say that I am doing well.
The one relaxing and fun thing that I got in over the past few weeks was a visit from my brother Tim (Rachael’s Uncle). Although beat up from my time in the hospital, I had a great time with him. I wish I could hang out with him more often, however I think the 1400 miles in between here and CA will continue to prevent that though. Rachael had a great time with her uncle Tim. They spent a good amount of time just playing and hanging out. Rachael loves him a lot, and as always was really sad to see him go, as was I. But it was a great time nonetheless.
Here are some pictures from some time we spent at the park when Tim was here…
Check out this video. I love seeing Piper having a little fun. Also, when you are done, check out the blog post from Mark Driscoll that the interview was about: Why I Love John Piper.
We had some family over for food, cake, and fun to help Rachael celebrate her 4th birthday on Saturday. And not to be confusing, her birthday is actually on the 11th of January, but somehow her party got pushed to this weekend. It was fun just the same. Rachael had a great time and behaved very well the whole day. We ate and laughed and generally had a great time.
OK, I give up. I said I was going to create my own custom theme, and made some good progress on it, but it is eating up too much of my family time. In fact, most of my online activities tend to take me offline with my family and that is not what I want. So I decided to just tweak an existing (and elegant) theme that someone else did, and I am happy with the result.
The past few weeks have been crazy busy for me. I’ve been consumed by a new website that I have been developing for my work. It has taken longer than I originally thought and has been more stressful than I originally thought (I think due to the fact that I should have developed it on my own time, without leaking it to my co-workers that I was working on it), but I think it will also be a better final product than I thought. I will post it up here when it is done (it should be this weekend), because I would love to hear some feedback about it from you.
Hey guys. I put a a bunch of new pictures in my gallery. Check them out..
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