Playing around with wordle again. You can see I’ve added a few new terms to my delicious list, but they sill revolve around web 2.0 stuff.
Or maybe I need to find a few other interesting links to add to my life list.
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Thanksgiving and the Crocheted Bag
Finally got around to uploading a photo of the bag I blogged about earlier. It’s not big enough for groceries, but it is just the right size for taking things back and forth from work. I don’t know how many grocery bags I actually ended up using, estimate is around a hundred. The bags used in this project were from Gerbes (brown) and Target (white). I’m working on another, with clear bags from HyVee and Gerbes brown bags, but have set it aside as I work on other things.
Thanksgiving is in a few days, no major travel plans. The only non work plans I have is converting a bag of apples into a yummy pies. Apples were left over from the college ultimate tournament last weekend. Had to run by the store tonight, becuase I didn’t have any pie pans. Somehow even after staying in the same house for more than a few years, I’ve never picked up pie pans.
October Weekend
Blues and BBQ festival this weekend. Enjoyed music, wings and beer last night and am working up the motiviation to go over for a few hours this afternoon. I’ve had a few busy weekends over the past few months that spending a day at home just chilling out is nice. Though I’ve spent most of the day watching shows like Jurassic Fight Club on the History Channel, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time yet, but the weather is beautiful. Maybe a hike around a nearby park with the dog is a better choice. Then cap off the night watching MU play Nebraska… Go Mizzou!
The decision about flooring is on hold for a while. Pricing for getting bamboo installed is out of my league and I don’t know folks that would be willing to help with installation.
My current creative project involves crocheting plastic grocery bags. My inspiration is the design found on this website. I’m using a smaller hook, so my stitches are not as bulky. I’ll post a photo after I finish up the project. Just need to add the handle loops, side pockets and trim.
Fall League Registration is Open!
It’s been an interesting weekend. I decided on Friday to reinstall vista to see if it would fix a few things that have been bugging me. So far so good, however it did take my a few days to get everything back up to working speed. Of course, I also promised two different people that I would put together webpages for them. Poor planning on my part once again. Oh ya and it didn’t help that I got Spore yesterday and wasted most of the afternoon playing. So since I wasn’t that motivated this weekend, I made up for it tonight by mowing the lawn, gather sticks, and posted the registration information for our ultimate fall league.
Link of the Moment:
New Huddle set of articles. This set covers Sub Calling I’ll have to read it sometime this week, through there are a few other subjects I may have to cover first.
Pretty much done
Close to Done
Originally uploaded by fresaj
The bathroom remodel has been close to being done for most of the summer. Only things left to finish up are related to trim and sealing the cracks. I painted the closet white and recovered the shelves, so now bathroom has the most usable storage in the house. I think that was the first time the closet had been painted since the house was built. It might have even has the original brown shag carpet. I don’t miss that ugly carpet.
Next project is new floor for the rest of the house. Right now I’m trying to decide between either carpet or bamboo. Carpet is cheaper, but with a dog with lots of fur, shedding can be an issue.
a few months later
Today, I updated my wordpress installation. Congrats to me!
I’ve actually finished most of the items on my previous todo list. I grabbed most of my old blog entries and uploaded them here and I got most of the ultimate website forum, gallery and main page updated. Upside to updating the forum is the sharp drop in spam registrations. I think the number of fake accounts was hitting about 15-25 a day.
At work, I’m plowing through a varity of Flash training videos.
things on my to do list
- Grab old posts from a previous blog off TheWayBackMachine at the Internet Archive.
- Update old versions of several pieces of software.
- Upload photos from the bathroom remodel. Only a few things left to finish.
- Go through old work files and send them to people at my old job.
…. lets see how long it takes to get that stuff done.
Cool Websites
Found Wordle this morning. You can either paste a bunch of text or link to a del.ici.ou user account to generate the image. This cloud is based off my account.
If you search through the gallery, there are a few examples created from books, speeches, etc.
Spent most of the morning playing around with Google Reader and finding people on twitter.
hard drive failed
My desktop partially failed a weekend ago. The machine was configured with two hard drives, one for the OS and the other with all my files. The setup was in hopes that if the OS failed, I would still be able to recover my files.
No such luck, the OS hard drive is still working and the file hard drive is squeaking and squawking. Unfortunately, I hadn’t gotten around to backing up all my digital photos (five years worth). The bright side is that I’ve been able to recover most documents without much trouble, just have to be very patient. I just have to make the decision if I want to take the time to continue shifting through tons of photo files and moving them when possible.
Lesson Learned: back up asap, don’t wait!
updates are few and far between
ok, so I’ve not been faithful in updating. The bathroom is close to finished, I’ll post photos sometime this week. League is close to underway, the draft happened last Wednesday and the first night of play is Tuesday. Now I just need to come up with a disc design…. That’s all for now.