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.

Late Night Site Updates

I am convinced that I will finish this page before the end of April. I am still in the process of finishing up adding in and modifying the plugins for this site. I have run into a bit of a problem though, I still need a plugin that will show my current books, music and games and another plugin that will create a useful archive page. If you are a Wordpresser and know of any plugins to complete the job let me know by leaving a comment.

Update:
It’s about 3:20am and I am beat, I mostly finished the side bar which included axing much of the content and rebuilding it the way I wanted it. I modded and installed the tag cloud plugin available from software guide. I then added the friendly links section as well, what is the saying, “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”? I am not entirely sure how that applies but it sounds good right?