Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

A new leaf is about to turn. Life has taken a step forward for myself and my wife. This next week heralds many changes in our life, good changes. For starters Maria and I both officially start at the Van Andel Research Institute on Monday. Her as a full-time Administrative Assistant/Receptionist and myself as an Information Technology intern. Monday also brings the close date for the condo, which will make Maria and I first time home owners, woot!
Who said Mondays were a bad day?

However as you might have noticed by the pictures in my flickr feed the condo needs some serious updating. First thing will be to paint it head to toe with some nice pastel colors, replace the light switches and go from there. So don’t expect any work on this site for a while. Though you can expect some nice pictures now and then and a short update from time to time.

Recent Stuff(s)

Big changes ahead for the Straatsma Clan! Back in April Maria and I started looking for a place to call home. While the apartment was cozy and all we felt it was time to stop giving money to the evil apartment management and give it to the neutral mortgage company. Very early into our search we found the perfect place, which coincidentally is currently featured in my flickr feed in the upper right-hand corner. We have plans to close on the 5th of June and take control of the condo. If you noticed in the pictures that the place looks a bit dated that’s because it is. The place is in great shape but needs some serious love. Before we move in we plan on painting the whole place from head to toe in multiple beautiful pastel colors.

Today also brought the 5/3 river bank run. Maria and I had been training for 5 weeks or so to get back into shape and make a decent time. This time around things were a bit rough but we beat the time we wanted to complete it in by 5 minutes. Now we move on to the next race and attempt to drop some more pounds and time.

Finally, the site is still being worked on but has been upgraded to ‘beta version’, everything works it’s just missing content. If you noticed the footer on this page contains some images and links to various things. These are actually links to current things I am reading/listening to/or projects. I am still missing the description graphics, expect those in the next week or so when I have a chance to sit down and work with photoshop.

Note: The footer is down temporarily as I correct some display issues with the graphics.