Added a couple of new pictures to the Kodiak gallery, and fixed thumbnails, broken pictures, and the sort order (they’re now ordered newest-to-oldest).
Nuked some stuff out of the gallery of pictures that was unnecessary.
Added a new “Food” gallery. Cause apparently I like taking pictures of what I’m about to eat. *shrug*
There may still be a bunch of broken thumbnails/pictures that I need to fix. Files with spaces in the name are the culprit.
I got a new job in November, I’m now a “Service Desk Resource I” (basically, tech support) at BDO (an international accounting firm). Since I’m no longer commuting as much, I finally had some time to catch up on my various to-do items lately, and one of those was to make at least a small update to this site. I’m still trying to decide if I like the new theme I picked, though. Also the Links page has been updated – all of my current social network profile pages are on there now, in addition to the buttons in the right sidebar.
Barton and I recently rented a self-storage unit, and have been seriously hammering away at all of the stuff we own that we don’t regularly use, to get it in boxes/totes and moved into the storage space. Some of the things getting packed away are items that we would love to have at our fingertips or on display – if we owned a house. But an 800-ish square foot apartment? Nope, there is just not enough room. We still have a long way to go though, and I expect the unit will be mostly full by the time we’re satisfied with our de-cluttering efforts. This will also make moving a slightly less monumental task.. I hope.
We also joined a local ham radio club this year – MARA (Michigan Amateur Radio Alliance). Interacting with those folks, and attending the monthly meetings has been a welcome break to the usual work-chores-sleep-work-chores-sleep monotony. We also joined the ARRL as well. I’ve been studying, off and on, to get ready to take the General License exam too, hopefully I will have that accomplished by sometime this coming spring.
If you have looked through my Tumblr (Warning: do not click on that link if you are at all sensitive to sexual content.. especially giantwtfomgbbqrobosex) at all, you’ve probably noticed I’ve had a huge resurgence in following Transformers/Transfandom this year. I’d hoped I might be able to attend Botcon 2012, but alas, it is now prohibitively expensive to go. Maybe 2013? Urgh. HOWEVER, I am still immensely looking forward to the second season of Transformers: Prime which premieres in February.
If you have waded through this massive update and are still with me… thank you… and…
My car’s odometer rolled over 181,000 miles this week. I’ve had the car for 11 years now – it had 24,000 miles on it when I bought it.
In the last 2 years, I’ve driven 72,000 of those miles just to and from work.
I plan on buying a newer car within a year. But I am really going to miss this one when its gone.
On vacation for the first time since last August. Day one is over, I have 9 left until I have to go back to work.
Spent most of today cleaning, taking out trash, etc. I think the apartment looks the least cluttered since we moved into it in Dec 09. At this rate it should be both spartan and spotless by the time my vacation is over.
Pfffft. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
I have a horoscope app on my phone, for the lulz more than anything. Here’s what it says for Scorpio for today:
Anyone who starts something with you – at any time – obviously doesn’t know you well. If they did, they’d have some respect for your ability to, at the very least, intimidate someone so that they end up looking over their shoulder for many, many moons. At the moment though, in the mood you’re obviously in, should someone refuse to back off, given the warning signs – well, let’s just say that they deserve what they get.