What a great weekend. We left after work Friday for Chicago. We arrived at the Skokie Holiday Inn around 1:30 in the morning. Satuday was just beautiful out, so we (Mom, Dad, Todd, Dane, Meghan, and myself) decided to head down to the NPU campus. We spent a bunch of time in the quad throwing the frisbee around. It was great. Saturday night was Kjersten and Mike’s wedding, which was held at North Park Covenant Church. I had never been in there, and I really enjoyed seeing the building. The wedding was great – it was officiated by the two Covenant pastors in my family – my Grandpa, who’s a retired covenant pastor, and my Uncle Dennis (Kjersten’s Uncle), who is a Covenant pastor out in Granby, CT.
We slept in on Sunday and then drove out to Elmhurst to get together with a bunch of Meghan’s family that happened to be in town for the weekend. We ordered Greek food from Costas, and it was incredible. We all consumed way too much garlic yesterday :-). After a great afternoon at the Williams’ house, Meghan and I unfortunately had to head back to MN. The 7.5 hour trip was made much easier by the incredible Aurora Borialis display we were treated to the entire way home. They were beautiful – dancing across the whole northern sky. What a treat.
That brings us to today…Monday. Yep – it’s monday – no denying it. I think it’s time for lunch.
This morning, we were finally able to get Exchange 2003 server installed correctly. We’ve even moved a few mailboxes over to it from the ancient 5.5 server, and nothing broke!
/me knocks on wood.
We’ve been trying to make this happen for 2+ years now, so it feels really good to have it working.
I recently added to the css for my site an attribute that prepends all of the menu items on the right side with a dash and a space. For the moment, this only works in firefox (not in IE), but frankly, I don’t care. So the bullets are cool and all, and I like that I’m doing it through css, but it throws the alignment off for items that are longer than one line.
So…if any of you web designers out there want to give a guy a hand, can you tell me how to fix that?
Well it looks like we get to have Mr. Bush in the office for four more years. Is that a good thing? Yeah I guess. He was my top choice out out of the two candidates, but I saw him more as the lesser of two evils. Hopefully he’ll be able to pull this country together. Hopefully.
So after tonight, if anyone ever asks if I’ve successfully installed a garage door opener, I can say with enthusiasm, “Heck yeah!”. I got started tonight around 7:00 or so I’d guess. I spent about 45 minutes taking the old opener down, and then started headlong into the new installation. Everything went really smoothly, actually. There were a few points where it would have been nice to have an extra hand or two, as I had to do some creative thinking at several points along the installation. The most noteworthy instance was when I had to use wire strung through a few of the rafters to hold up the opener while I screwed in the lag bolts that hold the thing up.
So now, it’s all working, though I still have a bit of work to do. I didn’t mount the infrared sensor thingies yet, so they’re just sitting on the workbench about three inches from each other. So it’s not, shall I say, the safest garage door opener in history, but I’ll take care of that soon. I was too exhausted to think about trying to mount those tonight. Perhaps tomorrow night, I’ll be able to get to them.
Lemme tell ya – if there’s one thing owning a house does for ya, it’s teaching you how to fix any and everything :-) Gotta love it – it’s an excuse to buy good tools!
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