I was somewhat caught off guard by actual comments here, so I dug through the wordpress settings and made it a lot easier to post comments. We will also see how well the anti-spam plugin works, but then again I think for now this site is safely below everyone’s radar, meaning the spambots shouldn’t be a problem 🙂
also, I really want to build one of these: Ruben’s Tube
-Jordan
I should really cheat and back-date this post somehow…. but anyway I wanted to throw up a recount of this trip before our next one starts, so here goes:
Heather and I took August 29th through September 1st to travel to Baltimore to visit her brother and be tourists in the area for a few days. It was an amazingly fun time, we really enjoyed our time with Todd and Susan, as well as getting to see some really cool things.
Day one (Saturday):
we walked down to the museum, where the featured display was something like “Real Body 2.” It was interesting, but got a little overwhelming in places where people were packed in tight and you felt sort of trapped with the dead body. Later that day we went into the IMAX of “The Human Body,” it was a cool experience as well. Between those 2 events we walked up to the park overlooking the harbor, for an amazing view of the city. It may sound like a bit of a biology overload, but we had a lot of fun!
Day two (Sunday):
We drove out to Philadelphia, leaving … not really first thing, but we got there before noon at least 🙂 All the historic sites are surprisingly close together there. I mean even if they did have to walk everywhere, we parked farther away than any of the local founding fathers would have had to walk to pickup the fancy new flag and show it to the guys signing the constitution. What we did see: The liberty bell, The outside of the Ross house, The historic church everyone went to, Benjamin Franklin’s grave, Constitution Hall. Things we did not see: The inside of the Ross house (aka the place the flag was made), the Art museum steps “Rocky” ran up. The first because the house was tiny, and I decided making Heather mad would be a better idea than paying $2, and the second because it was on the other side of the map, and we didn’t want to walk that far. Instead of walking anywhere we had philly cheese-steak sandwiches for a late lunch, and sat on a bench behind Constitution Hall for a few hours, it was again a really simple, but pleasant time.
Day three (Monday):
We drove into DC Monday, after some checking online to see what kind of things we could do on a holiday. We settled on a plan where we would rent bikes, and just see what we wanted to do from there. First off let me say “bikes are THE WAY to do the capital mall” I have been once before and I got tired of walking long before I saw everything I wanted to. The Bikes forced us to take longer paths sometimes because the direct-path sidewalks had a lot of people walking on them, but travel was so much easier we still could go wherever we wanted to go without being worn out. Under those conditions we hit pretty much every monument there, and got some cool pictures including the one in the masthead. After lunch we headed to Georgetown, a few miles from the capital mall area. Somewhere along the road out there a pedal started to fall off Heather’s bike, so the afternoon was less ideal. I could go into detail about Georgetown, but this is really long, so lets just say it was pretty and historic, then we got on a plane, landed in KC, and drove to Omaha, wrapping up an incredibly full, incredibly fun weekend.
-Jordan
This might be more honestly considered the rematch, after things did not go so well for me Saturday, but I have a fully-functional map on the directions page now! I am not too impressed with the documentation in the google maps API, they give you some helpful example code, but don’t explain what anything dose. When I took the time to go through it line-by-line I realized what was going on, but good grief I write more descriptive comments into code that nobody will ever see at work than they did into their public *EXAMPLE* code </grumble>
I am really excited to have that in, it means one more thing off the list, and a somewhat more involved task than the ones before it. I will ask you to kindly ignore the allignment mess at the bottom of the directions page, and refrain from pointing out that all I did was copy-paste some code into a CSS template while I bask in this accomplishment.
next up: the RSVP page, aka “lets point out how little Jordan knows about PHP”
-Jordan
catchy title huh?
so, today all I have done with my free time for about a week now is mess with the website. I spent forever working up the new header graphic, and still want to come up with a cooler name, but this works for now. On the main site, the bridesmaids, and groomsmen pages are complete.. or mostly, I will be putting up new pictures for the guys as soon as I have them.
Heather is at Husker Harvest Days… I see a lot of humor in the fact that I have never been to that mythical event, and now she was forced to go by her job. Hopefully she isn’t too traumatized by the experience 🙂
only 2 days until the Moab trip, and another chance to tramatize Heather, but I think camping will be a blast!
-Jordan
Things are moving along with the website! After almost all day Saturday, half of Sunday, and an hour before work today, I can almost call the front page, and the bridesmaids pages done. Once the last few formatting issues on the bridesmaids page get sorted out I can have the groomsmen page done in minutes, excluding my lack of good pictures for the guys. Heather had lots of good pictures of her girls, nether I nor facebook really has good imagery for the guys… hopefully I can track something down soon.
then I just have to figure out how the whole registration thing will work, beat the google maps API into my CSS format, and… yeah that should about do it for the website! 🙂
-Jordan
Its kind of a strange day, I canceled my World of Warcraft subscription. I have been playing for over 2 years now I think… I cant honestly remember when I started.
this is going to be scarry, but I am going to check playtime on my characters… oh wait… my subscription ended today! I guess I dodged a bullet there 🙂 Honestly thought it was going to be like over a month of solid play time easy 😦
I still have 14 game icons on my desktop though, so its not like I have completely abandon gaming… I just cant do the time-sink that is wow.
-Jordan
A week or so back, Heather asked me why anyone would spend the money on a car like a Lamborghini
Maybe this article explains it?
I don’t think this will factor into my car buying decisions any time soon.
-Jordan
not that I really mind my current phone, but its been dropped about twice and now the battery case wont stay on half the time. Also its the 2nd Razor I have owned as the 1st one just decided that displaying things on the screen wasn’t a requirement. Lucky I had memorized how to look up Heather in the address book so I could still call her blind 🙂
anyway, I am facinated by this phone: Samsung SGH-a83 I just have to figure out 1. when it comes out, and 2. If there is anyway I can use it and stay with Verizon.
(half the reason this gets a blog post is so I can remember what its called a week from now 🙂 )
-Jordan
I have managed to pull Heather into the design process for the main website (woot), and now have some actually challenges instead of just saying “meh, looks good enough.” Its a good thing, and I think the website is going to look awesome if I can implement everything we talked about.
First off I wont have to try and come up with text for the front page that doesn’t sound dumb, Heather can do that! 🙂
Second off, once we pick colors, pictures and whatnot, I will have to figure out CSS wrangling to get things to be the right colors, and formatted around pictures. I don’t expect that to be so hard, but who knows.
lastly, trying to get Gallery to pretend to be a cohesive part of the website is kinda a pain, using the proper theme, it at least presents the pictures in a non-painful way. Heather asked that the background be black, and low and behold, the “slider” theme has an option for a “black” color scheme… only its not black. Should be easy enough to fix, I just need time to dig around in the color settings. Then I run into the fact that “slider” doesn’t leave me an easy place to inject a link back to “home”, nor dose it seem to care that I don’t want the picture file names displayed.
I am looking forward to Saturday though, I should have some time to beat on the website
-Jordan
A few days into Sep and we have skipped our morning workout two of two opportunities to try and get a little more sleep 🙂 I can’t believe how hard it’s been to catch back up these days.
Also, today was the first day I walked outside in the morning and thought “WOW it feels like fall!” I know it’s a little dumb to be making a post about the weather, but it seemed like an event worth remembering what day it was this year
-Jordan
Nelsons 