It has been quite a while since I’ve updated anything but there is plenty to update. The past month or two have been extremely busy. I feel like I barely have time to check my email so I haven’t even thought about adding to the blog. The big event that has been taking up most of the time is…..  OUR HOUSE! The whole process hasn’t taken an extremely long time but be have been working hard at it just about every day. We are in the “unpack and find a place for all this junk” stage right now. And my “studio” is beginning to take shape! The track season also began a few weeks ago so I’ve been putting in plenty of time there. And the fun just keeps coming… I will be heading to the Middle School soon to be the art teacher there for the rest of the year. But not before I get the computer lab ready for testing at the Elementary. So I’m busy now but it looks like I won’t get much of a break until the end of the school year.
Welcome to Flickr…
I finally got my Flickr account started. I’ve posted a few pictures that I’ve taken. Most of them show the trip that my wife and I took to Texas. I haven’t had time to look at all the options and features but I hope to do that sometime soon. I know there are a number of ways to incorporate my Flickr pictures with this blog. Stay tuned for my adventures in photoblogging (and other short stories). For now you can go see my account here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzy247/
Don’t Mess with Texas
My wife and I recently flew down to Texas to visit my grandparents. We stayed for a few days and had a great time. The weather was “cold†and windy the first day (tropical compared to Indiana and Michigan) but then it warmed up for the rest of our stay.Â
…And Life Goes On
Well, if you haven’t noticed, it has been about 2 months since I last posted here… I’m sure you probably checked here every day for some new information or witty comments to get you through the day. Please forgive me for my absence. At least I can say that it has been more about being busy and less about being lazy. Looking back, Christmas, New Year’s Day, the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, Signing Day, Groundhog’s Day, Snow Days, and Valentine’s Day have all slipped by without one comment from this blog. Since you can probably go anywhere to hear about those kind of things, I’ll give you a summary of the more important events that have been happening.
According to a previous post, I took over for a teacher on maternity leave. She came back during the 1st week of February. I went to Indy for a few days for the Indiana Track and Cross Country coaches conference. When I got back to the computer lab it was time to start NWEA testing so I’ve been working on that… until I took a few personal days and flew down to Texas with my wife. In between all that we have been looking for a new place to live and watching our neices play basketball. Of course I have been taking pictures at most of these events. I hope to put up some pictures and elaborate on some of these topics in the very near future. Check back again to read all about them!
My Gift to the Online World
It’s that special time of year again.  We get to celebrate the birth of a very special person… My wife!!!
But more importantly, I have made a small addition to my growing website. The first gallery is up! The clay dinnerware set that I created in college is featured on the Clay page of artbyfuzzy.com. (Of course you should check out the actual gallery but just in case it doesn’t work there is a screenshot to the left.) I still have some tweaking to do but I’m happy with the basic design. Some day I’d like to get information for each piece added and maybe change a few small details. Let me know what you think. And of course I’ll be working all of Christmas vacation to get the rest of the galleries up….
I also had to manually fix the links to the News page (you are here) because I somehow screwed that up again. But now everything seems to be working okay. The other good news is that I got an FTP program to work from my flash drive so I didn’t have to manually upload the files to the server. I used WS FTP LE which was created by Ipswitch. I think they have a newer version out now… Since we’re talking about software I should mention that the web gallery was created using Jalbum and the Fotoplayer2 skin. Both a great holiday bargain at $0.
 Well, I’m on Christmas break so this could be my last post of the year. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and check back next year for some more spectacular updates. I’ve got big plans for 2007…