In Which Subleasers Survey
March 19, 2004 @ 10:15 PM
Life hasn't been too bad these last couple of weeks. This week in particular, since I'm on spring break and all. I've worked through most of it: 8 hours Monday, 13 hours Tuesday, 9 hours Wednesday, and 5 hours Thursday. Today, however, I had off. I spent most of it working on that whole splash page thing I was talking about earlier. The current version is the fourth I've created in the last couple of weeks, but I like it a lot. as a matter of fact, it may take over as my blog template, as well. I'll see what you-all think about that idea when I make the new template public. You'll know when that is, because you'll see a page other than this one when you visit rootarcana.com. The switch will probably happen sometime this weekend.
Interesting things about the new page (if it stays how it is now):
- Color-switching. It's basically the same as the skin-switching I have now, but with multiple colors based on a common theme instead of multiple themes. I may add themes later. *shrug*
- Miniblog. I have a sidebar mini-blog running on the new page. The miniblog will act as a collection of links to stuff I find interesting. Basically, it'll be the same concept as the miniblog on LYD's website.
- Google ads. Yeah, I know... seems kinda weird. But hey. Ads are a chance to help the website pay for itself (though I really doubt I'll do that well with them), and Google ads are content-relevant and unobtrusive.
Speaking of rootarcana.com... there's a chance there will be some downtime around a week from now. That is, rootarcana.com may cease to exist for a short period of time. The reason: I'm transferring domain hosts, from discountdomainregistry.com to linksky.com. I'm going with linksky because that's where my site is hosted, so I figured I might as well take care of everything there. Plus, linksky is awesome. Any problem I've ever had, they've responded to efficiently and effectively.
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A quick update on life (since I haven't really given one since October or so):
Megan and I have filled out our subleasing stuff. We'll be moving out before April 30th. Mom? Dad? How's the weekend of the 24th look for you guys? *g* I'll be moving approximately 11 blocks north and 2 blocks west. Megan's got her heart set on an apartment in Ankeny she went to see earlier this week. Someone is coming to look at our apartment tomorrow morning, which is pretty exciting. In case they don't like it, I've made up a flier to hang up around Ames. If'n you happen to live anywhere near the area and want to help a guy out, feel free to print off a couple. :)
Alright, time for bed. The maintenance guy woke Megan and I up far too early this morning and I need sleeps. On the plus side, we got a new microwave and bedroom door (long story, don't wanna go there).