May 31, 2007

• A New Look, Tommy’s Boo Boo, The Namesake, Everybody Needs a Bosom for a Pillow & Mankind

  
  

  NOTE:  I’m told some people can’t see the text anymore with this new theme, and I have no idea why.  Could it have something to do with their Javascript not being enabled?  If anyone knows why it’s blank for some people but not others, please let me know. Thanks.
  

  I spent a lot of time trying to figure out this new theme last night and this is the result.  It certainly looks a lot cleaner than my old page:
  
  

  
  

  
  I guess it’s time for a change…something light and airy for summer, LOL.    The only problem with this is that I can’t add my own CSS and JavaScript to do things like my old custom header.  So I’ve had to move the links to the first hand accounts of the Virginia Tech shootings to the bottom left.  I’m also trying to get a Google applet to work for my site to make searching easier, but right now it’s only searching the first page.  If you still like the old theme (as shown above) you can go to the bottom of the final post and click “View all weblog entries” to revert to the black and white.
  
  My other quandary now is how many posts I allow on each page.  With this new layout I can have up to 20 entries per page.  I tried that at first and there were about 2000 graphics that needed to load!   Obviously that’s not an option, and with as much as I write and the amount of complaints that I get about slow page loads, I think what I’ll do is change it dynamically based on the length of each post.  Some pages might have 2 or 3 entries, some only one.  What do you think?  I would appreciate any feedback about the look or the content!  Thanks for reading and feeding my narcissism, LOL.
  

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  I got an the following email from Lisa this morning:
  
  

  For all of you that don’t know yet, Tommy broke his arm yesterday.  He was playing on a huge ball with his friend, Chase, & he fell off right onto his arm.  Broke both bones!  We were in the ER until 11pm last night.  Luckily, an orthopedic surgeon was on site & was able to re-set his arm there.  Tommy thought he was anything but lucky though.  Watching somebody re-set your son’s arm is one of the hardest things I’ve ever seen.  Hopefully I won’t see it again any time soon.  He needs this splint for about 4 weeks while his bones re-set & then he’ll move on to a cast for another 6-8 weeks.  It’s going to be a long haul!  Anyway, he’s in good (well, ok) spirits and he hasn’t needed any pain medication yet.  I will keep you all posted. 

   

  Lisa :)
  

  
  My poor little cousin!!  He does not look happy at all.  (Guess I wouldn’t be either!)  Hang in there Tommy, we all love you!!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Not a happy camper!!

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  Does anyone want to go see The Namesake on Friday?
  

  
  

  
  

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  Tom & Cathy are in Munich this week with Patrick; and Matthias just sent this gorgeous photo of Beate & Patrick.  I just love this picture!

   

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  And finally, from Ryan’s MySpace, come these sage words:

  “Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: “Mankind”. Basically, it’s made up of two separate words – “mank” and “ind”. What do these words mean ? It’s a mystery, and that’s why so is mankind.”

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  Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow, mine’s on the 45.

  Song of the day

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