The pictures are slowly returning!

October 12, 2003

Man, you have no idea how tedious it is to copy over all the pictures and code from one page to another. As I said earlier, that means that I’m taking the opportunity to clean up the code a little bit to reduce the size of the page and to adjust the spacing and names of the images. I found that I had completely missed renaming all the pictures from my sophomore year that I tok around the dorm, too, so I had to do that, change all the code.

Blah.

Well, as proof that I haven’t been slacking off, how about a revisit to the past? I know that most of the people who read my website do so because you know me, but there are a few that I’ve encountered through comments and the like (including someone on my auto-notification list who’s identity is a mystery to me at the moment) who really don’t. Well that’s partially what my About Me & AGSHender.Net page is for, but really, you get to know me through reading about me and my experiences. So I’ll bet my family members who have talked with me for years (Barbara and Helen, mostly, plus Virginia, though sadly Virginia, I haven’t talked with you in AGES) think that I’m a polite young man with eexceptional phone skills (when I remember to give messages to my Mom, that is), but many others know me as a beer-guzzling computer freak. Not true, I assure you!

Not entirely, at least.

I blame my Dad for getting me hooked on beer, really. He blames Stanford University for getting him hooked on beer (”I didn’t drink beer until I went to Austria,” he said to me a couple of weekends ago, “and they didn’t have to accept me in the program!”). I guess that means that my love of beer is due to Stanford University. Of course, I owe my very existence to Stanford, too, so I shouldn’t complain too much. But I disgress from whatever original point I was making. Ah yes, getting to know me!

So in honor of getting to know me a little more, or for those that already do, how about a trip down memory lane? As I finish each page of pictures, I will link the completed ones from my entry so that you can check out the ones that I’ve done since the last time I wrote, and then when I’m done I’ll finally reenable the Pictures link to the right. So for a trip down memory lane, I proudly present to you:

Freshman Year Dorm Life Pictures
Sophomore Year People Pictures
Sophomore Year Dorm Life Pictures
“Dressed To Get Laid” Pictures
Halloween Pictures, Freshman Year
Papa Murphy’s Pizza Pictures
Thanksgiving, 2002 Pictures
Train Ride Pictures

And for something I’ve been meaning to do since May, I also finally got my cross-country trip diary from May driving from Wisconsin to Oregon up on my site again. I had posted it in May, but then I had never put it back on the front page again. So for your reading enjoyment, it’s on the menu to the right or you just click here to read it.

Ahhh…I feel much better getting all that off my chest. I know that many of you like looking at pictures, so this is what I have to offer for now. As you can see, I’m starting with pages that don’t have a whole lot of pictures for the time being. Eventually I’ll have to get into the hefty ones. It was the same way when I imported all my blog entries to this new format in July, I started with months that had one or two entries, but I hated the seven, eight, even nine entry months.

Now that I’m updating nearly every day, I’d hate to do it again!

Last night my sister came over and we watched my copy of Ice Age while I continued to ice my knee–good connection, huh? Ice for 20 minutes, compress for 50, ice for 20, etc. I went to sleep with an Ace bandage she loaned me on my knee, but I was somewhat afraid that my lower leg would go to sleep overnight, so I took it off after awhile. When I woke up in the morning, it felt great. A little bit of soreness, but not much. Now that I’ve been on it walking around the house, even with the Ace bandage on under my jeans, it’s a bit sore again. I’m confident that it’s getting better, kind of like a sore throat. You wake up feeling OK, then it gets worse, you go to sleep, feel OK again…no, I have that backwards. You go to bed, wake up feeling horrible, then get better during the day. What the heck? OK, so I have no idea what my knee is doing. I’m going to ice it this afternoon, though, and see how it feels then.

Well I might go back to work on my website, and I might not. I have to do it in chunks, getting it done slowly. Perhaps by the end of this week I can have half of the pictures or more done. That is, assuming that I’m not working. I haven’t heard anything back yet, but there’s still time. Keep your fingers crossed, everyone. Enjoy the pictures and my cross-country diary.

Stop hurting, damn you!