Friday, September 23, 2005

What's on tap for today?

Here's today's plan.
-Go out for breakfast buffet with Anson
The college is throwing a big breakfast buffet for 6.75. If tree planting has taught me anything, it's that a big breakfast is the best thing in the whole entire world. A good meal of eggs, sausage and fruit trumps store bought bread and jam every morning and lives you filled for a whole lot longer. Hopefully Anson can drag his ass out of bed so that we don't miss the sausages. Move, man, man!

-Watch the Corpse Bride
This isn't a *must* see, but I'm a sucker for Tim Burton produced stop motion stuff. The animation was so smooth when I saw it for the first time I was convinced that it was CGI. That's a high compliment,

-Get a gym membership
It's highly doubtful that I'll get one today, but I should really get one. For the last couple of days I've been feeling nostalgic for tree planting. It's not because I miss the work. Hell, my toes and still numb and my finger still fucks up in the morning. I'm missing the adrenalin rush that comes from working my body to its fullest. Right now my life is pretty sedentary and I'm gaining weight. It would be nice to be able to keep the pants that I have and not have to go up a size higher, if I can help it. I'm thinking that if I do go to the gym, I'm going to have to do it alone. Going with Anson last year was okay, but wasn't the greatest. I felt that I was going there more for his benefit than mine (which is true). If tree planting taught me anything this summer it's that I *can* get into shape and I'm stronger than I thought. I'm thankful for the experience because of that.

-Redesign Moon Karma Zero
Looking over MKZ yesterday, I had an epiphany: the site's incredibly ugly. I'm not sure if this is the case, but I'm almost positive that there hasn't been a site redesign since it's inception. Right now, as I look at it, it's pretty gaudy and bloated. What I'd like to do is stream line it a bit and get rid of all the wasted space. My biggest gripe about the blogger templates is that most of them have inelegant design. If you look at the design of MKZ, you'll notice that there's a *lot* of wasted space there. Left and right of the content and links is an ugly gap of empty space. Space like that should be utilized so that pictures aren't squeezed and so that we can put more content there. And thanks to my love of technology, the blog doesn't have a uniform look for posts. This morning, I decided to go back to the old method of tagging posts so that there isn't as much of a visual dissonance that there is right now. Assuming that my code fu is strong enough, I'd really like to make the design bottom heavy which I think is an incredibly efficient use of frames. And you know me, I love streamlined efficiency when it comes to web design.

-Get a new mouse
This will be my third computer related purchase at Future Shop this month. It's getting out of hand, frankly.


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