Slack’s Place

A real-time account of life among the Earthlings…

New Styling!

by Slack, on November 21st, 2004

Ok, so this weekend I decided to make it my goal to learn the PHPTemplate engine for Drupal! Well, I have at the very least a good grasp of it now! I’ve changed the styling around on the site to reflect a more custom look rather than the cookie cutter theme that I was using. This one was designed from the ground up! I still have some fine tuning to do to finish it up, but I’ve run out of go-go juice… Let me know what you think of the new look - good or bad! :D

Life in Limbo

by Slack, on November 20th, 2004

So, it’s been busy as usual around here. Funny that everything is still about the same… Can you say “spinning tires”? I knew you could…

Let’s start with a pic of little man.

Rhys and Molly


Rhys and Molly… Awwwww… Isn’t that cute!

That’s a pic from when Ms. Molly was down to visit. :) I think they’re going to get along just fine! :-D That was back in August, and both kids just seem to be getting bigger and bigger!

I’m still smoking, but I’ve resolved to quit sometime within the next week or two. Time to get back on the wagon. Poor Heidi will have to put up with a cranky husband again. I know she is just looking so forward to that.

What else? Some good news from Spacely. They actually let me build a Gentoo box at my workstation! How cool is that? (It’s very cool!) I couldn’t believe really. I know if I were the boss, I probably would have told me to take a hike when asking for a Linux box at work. I’m sure glad I don’t work for me - I can be a real asshole. At any rate, I’ve bootstrapped the machine and it’s waiting for the base system to be deployed and built on Monday. I just hope it doesn’t get flagged for bandwidth consumption… Ugh… Going to burn some of the distfiles to CD to help prevent that… Anyhoo… Can you tell I’m in geek mode lately?

I’d better get back to it. Take care out there…

Speed Update!

by Slack, on November 8th, 2004

Ok, time for a quickie catch-me-up… Buckle up, here goes:

I voted! Did you? Does it really matter this time around tho? Am I the only one who feels that way?

Happy Halloween gone by! We holed up inside and didn’t hand out candy. Nor did Rhys get to go trick or treating… RSV season and all…

Went dirtbike riding for the first time. Had a blast. Still not quite comfortable on the dirt, but i’ll get there. I sure would like to have my own bike instead of borrowing tho. :)

I started smoking again… Yeah yeah. So sue me. I’m only friggin human.

Work has been crazy friggin busy lately, and I’m feelin the Spacely love. :D

Life is just an exciting rocket ride through the cosmos here! ::roll::