andrew dodson

WLEX meteorologist Bill Meck has a blog. It’s actually a bit more infomative than his forecasts on the news broadcast.

I’ve sort of taken a very slight interest in the weather and what creates our weather. After all, being in Kentucky, we get some crazy weather (go outside and get a feel of the upper-50’s February temps right now). Now, I have another source of education.

Go check out Justin Evilsizor’s blog. It has a few pictures from our class’s recent trip to Gatlinburg.

I started Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University at Crestwood last night. Tim & Cari Chase are the facilitators, and there’s a fairly good crowd taking the class. I received my kit last night which included Ramsey’s book, a workbook, audio CDs of each week’s session, budget forms, and more. It already inspired me to cut up my Chase, Best Buy, Musician’s Friend, Gateway, and CompUSA credit cards. I’m pretty excited about what I’ll learn over the next thirteen weeks.

I’m currently involved in the process of creating two new websites – one for CLS and one for Vertex. For the CLS website, I’m working with a graphic artist that helps out at CLS from time-to-time. She is extremely talented and someone from which I can learn a lotimportantly, she’s inspired me to think bigger when creating a new site.

The “old me” would create sites based on what I already knew, or had figured out, about a program. The “new me” digs a little deeper into the program to find out what else I can do (drop-down menus, using templates and components, etc.). I’m reading the help sections more often and looking online to find out more about HTML/DHTML code and all that jazz.

I had a fairly productive night…

1. Rearranged my apartment. I’m not entirely sure that I like the new layout, but it might grow on me. It at least gave me a chance to clean and get some things organized. If anything, it looks a little more neat and clean.

2. Updated a couple of clients’ websites.

3. Went to the gym and burned off 400 calories (estimate).

4. Fixed my camcorder. As it turns out, the playback was messed up because I’d recorded things in both SP (short play) and LP (long play) modes. I rewinded the tape and recorded over the first 45 minutes of the tape in LP mode. Everything seems to be fine now.