Well, it was somewhat late when I got home last night, so I skipped a post. But I had a pretty interesting day Tuesday. This post’s picture was taken by Beth and is probably my most favorite picture of Kirstin ever.

I managed to get the garage door fixed. When I left for work on Monday, the door broke when it was being raised. Long story short, the support member on the garage door to which the door opener attached sheared off. So I had to raise and lower the door manually, which wasn’t that big a deal.

Since I had some spare time yesterday afternoon, I fixed it up (with wood, oddly enough). It’s in good order now and seems to work better than the way it’d been before. The door is really pretty much shot, but I don’t want to go out and buy a new door if I can make this one last for a while. I believe I’ve managed to accomplish that task.

I also managed to get some more website work completed…and as of about two hours ago, the new MZ Online website is live. For real.

All of the old stuff is there yet, and I have a lot of cleaning up to do as time allows (I’m not sure how I’m going to handle the removal of the old site just yet), but the landing page (mzonline.com) is now the new site and not the old one. So it’s live.

I have some more work to do on it (namely from an administrative perspective), the most obvious of which is to finish going through my bookmarks and tagging appropriate links to display on the links pages. But short of that, it’s done and I’m happy with it. I think it’s significantly cleaner and clearer than the old site and should serve well for some time.

So that’s been my main project for the last few weeks, and it’s good to be at the ‘pretty much complete’ stage.

In other news (I’m going to keep this a bit short tonight), I had to go re-align my Internet satellite dish (just don’t tell the FCC) since the strong wind we had last Friday night seemed to have knocked it just far enough out of alignment so as to cause some problems. We still had a signal and the service still worked (for the most part), but it was lower than normal and tended to be intermittently going out. So some wrenches, walkie-talkies, and patience…voila! Got it aligned a little better and service hasn’t gone out since. So that’s a Good Thing.

What I find odd about it all is that we’ve had strong wind before and never had a problem. Also, all of the bolts were still in fairly tight shape, so I’m not sure exactly what shifted…but regardless it’s fixed for now. And I didn’t have to pay someone $80 to come out and tinker with it.

Anyway, it’s late now and I’m tired, so I’m calling it a night. Until next time…

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
– Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

–MZ