Glass Panes That Separate

transparent barriers to communication

Author: nosilver4u

  • neo

    A while ago, Amanda’s dad gave us a whole bunch of plants for our new office. Sadly, some of them have died, since the move was delayed for something like two months. However, we are now in our new office, and the plants will do better (that’s the plan, although some of them don’t seem to be on board with the plan). The office looks like this:

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    Here’s our orange tree that is blooming like crazy (not sure if 8 counts as crazy, unless you’re playing cards):

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    And the rest of the plants (some of them aren’t doing so great):

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  • loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong

    That’s the amount of time that has passed since I last updated my site. Way TOO long, if you ask me, which none of you did. Life is progressing, ever rapidly, and I’ve obviously been busy. Busy doing what?

    • pulling cable in the new building (the LLHSLC)
      • network
      • television
      • phone
    • learning all the ins and outs of our new records software at the school
      • setting up the web interface
      • fixing permissions for people
      • giving them accounts so that they have permissions in the first place
      • helping people figure out how to do things they were trained to do (even if I wasn’t trained at all for that task)
    • helping Amanda with the Ellendale High School play (lighting, sound, set, etc.)
      • every school should have a CD player hooked up to their sound system (we’re not in the 80’s anymore)
    • learning Perl

  • fireworks

    I noticed today, that my last post was from July 4th. I also noticed that it said nothing about fireworks. I love fireworks. Just thought you all should know that. There’s just something about blowing things up, and the anticipation of seeing what comes next. We went to a show, and then had a few youth over and put on our own show. The one we watched was pretty cool, but doing your own is a whole lot more fun. I’ll have some pics of the one we went to shortly.

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  • at long last

    We bought a house a while back. And then the work began. We’ve painted just about every room in the house, and I know there are many curious folk out there who want to see what we’ve been up to. So without further ceremony, go check out the ‘New New House’ in the gallery.

    update: I also added a couple adorable pics of Arnold in the Guinea gallery.

  • anywhere

    Google just released a plugin that has simplified my life a bit more. It’s called ‘Browser Sync’, and it allows you to synchronize your bookmarks, settings, passwords, and even tabs opened between computers. Obviously, that data has to be stored somewhere. In this case, it is on google’s servers. However, no worries, as you can choose to encrypt all of your data (some items are already encrypted by default), and it is also protected by a pin number of your choosing. I like it a lot. Now I don’t have to recreate bookmarks on all 3 of my computers. Woot!