Well, someone paged me the other day saying I never update. This made me sad because I meant to update more regularly (like I said). On the other hand, I was like “hey, someone’s reading my page!” So any way, in honor of my text message, I’ll make a couple entries and back-date them to make it look like I’ve actually been updating.
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Amanda in Ames!
So for the first time this summer, Amanda actually came down here for the weekend. Got to show off my surround system.. yay! 🙂 That, along with a projector checked out from ITC, turn my room into a virtual theater…. nice. Anyway, Amanda and I fell into our old habit of eating out way too much, but it was all good food! We also went to the first Ames 4th of July parade in 30-some years. It was interesting, but really long. Like Nick said, there were no bands in it, but it was fun to see some of the sights. Amanda and I picked up about 10 pieces of candy total. Some annoying kids sat down in the street right in front of us 😉 . Guess we’re not considered as young as we wish we were, huh? Then last night we saw the fireworks because I really wanted to take her to fireworks. Granted, we stayed in my car to make a hasty exit (Iowa State Center and RCA traffic gets insane before and after fireworks!), but the fireworks were… meh. Nice. Not terrible, but nothing super-spectacular either.
Can’t remember much else. We went to see Spiderman 2. We took Theresa, Amanda’s sister, and a friend out to Great Plains pizza, though it wasn’t the best Great Plains pizza ever. Amanda thinks it’s funny that two of her sisters also “like” guys who are into computers.
Think I’ll stay in singers!
So apparently, Iowa State Singers are going to go on an all-expenses (hopefully, mostly) paid trip to LA next February for the national ACDA (American Choral Director’s Association) convention. I guess it’s the next step up for last spring’s South Dakota performance, which I unfortunately missed because I was dreadfully sick. Everyone in the choir talked about how it was the most memorable experience of their lives, and I missed it 🙁 . Maybe I’ll get a chance to experience a similar situation next February. Have to miss a week of class/work really early on, but hopefully it’s worth it!
Speaking of being sick, though. I was feeling ill last night and also today. I think I just need to cut cheese entirely out of my diet. But that would be so sad!
Importing old journal
I found a way to import my old journal from crazylife into wordpress. They’re all coming in as “private,” so only I can see them, but as I go through and re-read them, I’ll probably move some over to the actual site. That way I can filter out the bad/embarrasing entries I made over the last two years!
Update: Yup, about 100 entries. Just finished going through them all and posting the good ones. Might try to pull the comments up sometime, but not in the near future. Anyway… it was kindof fun reading all my old entries.
Weekend: Movies, Cars, and Relationships
This weekend was definitely filled with movies. Saw Shrek 2 for the second time… didn’t really see anything new except for the end clip in the middle of the credits. Also Around the World in 80 Days was pretty good. We also watched several movies at Amanda’s house and a couple at her sister’s apartment. Finally, I borrowed 6 movies I’d never seen and bought 2 from Blockbuster (wow, Blockbuster is a much nicer place to buy ex-rentals than Hastings: No ugly stickers on the discs, and a lifetime guarantee), so I should be set for… at least the next couple of days.
Yay for libraries!
So I’m getting my oil changed in Dyersville (First time I’ve had some place do it), and we found a library! Yay for feeding my computer addiction! Plans for the rest of the day: Pizza with the rest of the family, then Shrek 2 for Becca’s birthday.
I think I’ll enjoy the half hour of peace and quiet I get now….
Plans for the weekend
You know, maybe with this being my actual webpage and whatnot, I’ll update once in awhile. (For those who are new to my page, I had a similar journal elsewhere, but, while I had good intentions, I never seemed to update it) Then again, maybe not. But I can talk about this weekend!
I’ll be heading back to the technologically-void farm of Amanda’s parents. Okay, so it’s not technologically void, but there’s no internet. So no updates over the weekend (I’m sure you’re all dissapointed). Actually, it kindof feels good to starve off my Internet addiction for a few days. Plus it’s actually fun to be there lately. At least, last weekend wasn’t so stressful. Who knows, maybe I’ll even milk some cows this weekend! I’ll definitely take in a couple movies (it’s Becca’s birthday, so we’re going to Shrek 2) and prepare some meals.
Gallery Goodness
Hey, sweet. I have gallery running on my server now, too. It’s great what you can do with php. Now, to just retrieve my albums from Russ’s gallery, then My Gallery Page won’t be so empty!
Old Site Incorporated
Well, that was pretty painless. Most of the links from the old site have been incorporated into this one, so I figured I might as well update and make this the actual homepage.
If you feel like looking at the original site, here it is.
Now, maybe I should head to bed, considering I still have morning class for the next couple weeks.
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Hey. By some miracle, I got php, mysql, and wordpress working on a windows server. Now to play around with configurations!