Posts Tagged Work
Busy and Thankful
Posted by J.D. in Daily Updates, parenting on February 26th, 2010
Things have been busy around here! Projects left and right, with a trip (thanks Jesse 
) coming up to top things off. But it’s a good busy and good projects too. These are worthwhile things that pay dividends in the long run. Despite the busyness, we are making sure to take time out for the little things that mean a lot to us. This is a very special time for us as we consider the future and treasure the present.
On a personal note: Pregnancy from the husband’s perspective
I’m enjoying being the husband of a pregnant woman. It’s a totally new experience to me and I’m excited, dumbfounded and happy (often all at the same time).
My wife is wonderful and she’s handling pregnancy very well. But I am very thankful for her support group of friends: women that are going through it, have been through it, or are contemplating it at some point in the future. It’s not that Samantha needs or wants help per se, rather she has compatriots that she can just talk to about anything and everything . I do my best, but I’m no substitute for her talking with her gal pals.
Along those lines, we’ve gotten to see a lot of our local friends lately and that has been really nice. Likewise, our family is awesome and it’s great having them be so supportive (even if some of our family we don’t get to see nearly as often as we’d like!)
I really couldn’t ask for anything more 
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PS Congratulations to the Winona Wildcats Varsity, they played a great game tonight and won against the Couch Indians in overtime. The players from both towns did an excellent job and they all played hard.
Work update from paradise
Posted by J.D. in Daily Updates, Hawaii, NetRender, Work on December 16th, 2009
I may be in Hawaii, I’m still doing as much or more work as usual. It’s just a lot warmer here .
Today I’ve been working on some simple improvements for NetRender (NR), it’s a site that sells hi-res textures. John is my partner on the site and we try to improve the site anytime we can.
Here’s what I’ve been up to:
+backed up everything (as part of our periodic backup schedule)
+removed the credit card logos from the sidebar of texture sample pages:
http://www.netrender.com/texture-maps/trees/trees-vol-1/trees-texture-pack-i-sample-3/
(previously the credit card icons would get overlayed onto textures when the textures were really big. It looked pretty yucky, and really we only need the credit card icons on the product/ordering pages)
+removed the “subpage” listing on the shopping cart:
http://www.netrender.com/cart/
(this was over at the side and used to list “transaction results” and “checkout” etc. but those links weren’t really supposed to be clicked… I think this will be less confusing for people)
+revised the text at the top of sample pages
http://www.netrender.com/texture-maps/trees/trees-vol-1/trees-texture-pack-i-sample-1/
I think it’s more straightforward and lets people know that the image is only one of many, and that they can buy the image…
+removed the “attachment” text, pages like http://www.netrender.com/texture-maps/trees/trees-vol-1/trees-texture-pack-i-sample-1/
used to say:
NetRender >Â Trees Vol 1 > Attachment: Tree from NetRender
but now it says:
NetRender >Â Trees Vol 1 >Â Tree from NetRender
+Added some new administrative features.
+Implemented keyword tracking and storing (this stores the keywords that people are searching for to find out pages)
-I’d like to finally get coupon (discount) codes enabled soon. (it is just a tricky thing to implement with our site…)
-I need to improve (and enlarge) some of out texture samples
-We’re also planning either a new free texture site, or a NetRender free texture section.
Non-work update
Hawaii is spectacular! This is the first day I’m staying in and not walking/biking around the Island, however, I did do my P90X ab-ripper workout and Samantha did her 30 day shred workout.
I though I might get bored in Hawaii, but I was wrong .
Work is done so it’s party time
Posted by J.D. in Uncategorized on May 12th, 2009
For the past week Samantha and I have been working hard in preparation for taking some time off to party. Now party time has arrived . We’re in Springfield now, I’m doing some final work from the comfort of our Honda Element and Samantha is getting ready to go hang out with Cheryl and Amy. Tomorrow I’m meeting up with some Drury buddies for lunch and then it is time to celebrate Kevin’s birthday in the evening (we’re going to watch Star Trek amongst other manly things ).
After that it should be some R&R in Spfd and Rockaway until the weekend when hopefully we’ll get to hang out with Samantha’s mom (and maybe Samantha’s grandparents) in the vicinity of Springfield and Bolivar. I’m sure there will be some work interspersed in there and I know we’ll be mowing the yard in Rockaway (if we ever get more dry weather) but overall we have our ducks in a row so it is nice to chill a bit!
Hope everybody is having a good week out there!!
PS It was an absolutely gorgeous day this morning and noon, hopefully a sign of more nice weather this Spring!
What’s your favorite work related task?
Posted by J.D. in Uncategorized on March 22nd, 2009
Samantha asked me something today and I thought it was a really good question:
What’s your favorite work related task?
I’m posting my answer in the comments, I hope you will do the same!
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J.D.'s Weight Chart
About this graph plugin…
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