We went to Shalimar at lunch and grabbed copies of Nuvo to read while we ate…. The article turned out very cool. Dan Rafter is a great writer and did a great job making sense of my answers to his questions.
I have a feeling my girlfriend might have something to say about the headline “A love affair with Mr. Bendo.” Hmmm. I like him, dear, but not that way. I promise.
In preparation for the Nuvo article coming out this week, I’ve been working on and updating my Big Things web pages. I added photos of the big things I took in Valparaiso over the holidays, and updated and added some other photos. The only thing I haven’t added are the pictures my brother Todd gave me a while back, which had shots of Adventureland from Iowa and other stuff. I’ll try to get those in sometime soon.
So I found out today that the article that Nuvo Newsweekly is doing on my Big Things Photo collections will be a cover article. I have to go in for an additional photo shoot this evening and the article will run in the January 5th issue.
This weekend my grandparents and Aunt Rosemary and Uncle Gerald came from Iowa to visit my family, and they came to see my house on Saturday morning. I got to show off everything I’ve done so far, and stuff I plan to do in the near future.
On Sunday Stephanie and I went to my dads for Christmas presents and Christmas brunch at the country club, which was very nice.
I’m being interviewed by a reporter from Nuvo tonight about my “Big Things” Photo Galleries, so in honor of the occasion, I’ve added tons of photos to the galleries. I’d been behind in adding things for awhile, even though I’ve been taking photos constantly over the last year. Now all my new pics are added, with the exception of some photos that my friend Eric took for me in Minnesota. I have to research exactly where they’re located before I throw them into the mix.
There are a handful of new photos in the Indianapolis section, some of them updates of things I already had and some are new inflatables I spotted. There are a lot of new photos in the “Indiana and Beyond” section, because I took a few day trips and also added things I photographed on the way to my grandmother’s house last year.
I have a brand new tracking system at home now, too, with an Indiana map on my office wall with all the new big things marked that I need to locate.
Sometime back in May, blogger stopped supporting my archive index page, and they failed to tell me about it. So since then, my archive pages haven’t been updating. I noticed the problem two weeks ago, and since then have been struggling with blogger help to figure out how to solve the problem.
I finally got it to publish and update correctly, so all of my archives are accessible. Yeah!
Several people sent me links to this, because I love photographing “Big Things” — Discovery channel is having an entire series on Big stuff and the people who create it. Cool.
Yup, I have finally managed to steal some time away from other stuff I’m required to do in order to put some recent pictures up… including pictures of my adorably cute girlfriend Stephanie. Isn’t she amazing?
My Girlfriend Stephanie
Coming soon: pictures of the party I threw back in March, featuring my friend’s band, Susan May Kill You.
Blogger did some major updates to their technology, and now I can allow comments on the site without having to use a third party. So I’m going to turn on the ability to comment on some posts on my site, just to see how it goes.
start here: Week of April 20, 2003
end here: Week of June 15, 2003
Just editing some stuff and making notes for myself. Not too important really.
I was able to upload all my big things pictures, but now I’m discovering other stuff that’s missing. I configured a new guestbook, but it doesn’t look like my site, so I have to tweak it. And I’m starting a redesign that will hopefully allow me to redo the site using cascading style sheets and web standards design, so I can say I run with the big dogs. I’m pretty pleased with the new look. It’s about the same, with some improvements.
