When I was in public school, summer vacation seemed a nearly endless parade of unstructured, sun-drenched weeks punctuated by regular visits to the public library, swimming lessons, picnics in the park, and family vacations. Once I graduated from high school and moved up into college summer still meant a cessation of structured classes and homework ( Read more... )

I have been reacquainting myself with Dreamweaver this past week at work. When last I used the program (in a class at BYU several years ago) it was a Macromedia product in no away associated with Adobe. So there's definitely some ramping up needed to get to CS3 level. Thankfully it comes with a DVD of tutorial videos and some pretty useful help ( Read more... )

Since my last post I have:

• Purchased a desk. It is a mission-style piece in red-brown wood, and I put it together myself
• Brought my computer from my parents' house to my apartment and set it up.
• Given myself a sore neck and back from hunching underneath desks fiddling with cables and cords
• Gone to work
  
  • Been named the editor and web master for the ( Read more... )

I spent a most enjoyable week up in Bar Harbor, ME, with my family, and from the sound of things we had slightly better weather up there than was had at home (meaning we had two days where it was partially cloudy, rather than rainy). This was the first time I had been to Bar Harbor in seven years, so it was interesting to see how much I remembered ( Read more... )

I have been in something of a holding pattern since my last post, meaning that not a whole lot has been done with regards to unpacking, organizing, and/or moving things from my parents' house to my apartment. I am more or less on top of both my laundry and my grocery shopping, but there are still some kinks I need to work out of the system. ( Read more... )

At this point in time, I am fairly certain all the books that were not in the attic at my parents’ house are now on the bookshelves in my apartment. There are probably some books still lurking in the boxes filled mostly with papers and other items I need to dedicate a couple hours to going through, but for the most part my books are on the shelves ( Read more... )

I have made it a goal to unpack at least one box every evening after I get home. As most of the boxes are the smallish type from U-Haul, this is a very manageable endeavour; each box requires between fifteen and twenty minutes of time to sort out at the longest. Additionally, most of these boxes are filled with books which are more or less in the ( Read more... )

The past ten days or so have definitely been...interesting. I had a wonderful time at Celebration of Needlework with my mom. We went to a lecture on sampler alphabets through history which was very enlightening in multiple aspects. I was unaware, for example, that the letter J was the last letter added to our modern alphabet, and that while we ( Read more... )

The weather this past week has been more in keeping with June or July rather than April. This had me...less than pleased, for I am not exactly fond of hot weather. I start to wilt when temperatures get above the mid 80s. Still, the humidity has been low, and the weather has been more April-like for the past day or so. I hope this trend continues ( Read more... )

So. It's been...over a month. I'm settling in nicely at my new job, and they are keeping me quite comfortably busy. I've been learning lots of new things as well as brushing up on older and half-remembered skills. Most recently I've been figuring out CSS, and I've determined that IE is a non-standards-compliant pain in my backside. Of course, I ( Read more... )