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22 February 2011
For this year’s milestone birthday, I decided to have a three day extravaganza, topped off with a gift to myself. The gift was finally, at long last, my own website. richwertzonline.com is up and running. The time it took settling on a theme was a bit longer than anticipated, but in the end, it is a bamboo inspired design with some pretty impressive and cutting edge css style renderings. Of course, I had to make a statement along the lines that it looked and functioned better with either a Chrome or Firefox browser. I imagine some people might say that I am incapable of designing anything that is viewable in Internet Explorer. I say to them that IE hasn’t been able to match my level of creativity as yet. I’ve always been one to push the boundaries of web design. I remember spending so much time creating images for a table layout that mimicked public transportation with the content located where the adverts would be. It was a while before I could show it to anyone without Netscape or Mozilla. Just for kicks, I re-created the same concept using purely css constructs and it took about a tenth the amount of time.
So that’s how I spent the first half of my birthday week. Tweaking my new website and doing school work. The other half consisted of my birthday dinner (on the day of my birthday) at Hokkaido; Kara joined us and she gave me an iTunes gift card in a really awesome card. I managed to stuff an entire plate of crab legs into my gob, but half of the shells ended up on the floor when I tried to open a particularly difficult shell and slipped. The wait staff literally standing next to our table didn’t find my antics amusing at all. Afterward, we all went to Dave & Buster’s for some game time. Kara won me 1,000 tickets at the bass fishing thing- which was really awesome. I couldn’t get enough of the coin games. Jovanna met us there and had some fun, too. Some of the nearly 3,000 tickets we have on the card covered the purchase of a new mug.
Thursday was stamppot day. Kara, Jen and my mom were invited, but mom had to cancel because of her back. Everything was delicious- even the turkey sausage turned out better than I thought.
A few days after my birthday, we went to mom’s so that she could give both Marieke and I our birthday presents. She gave me a really neato existentialist book about chaos theory and the philosophy of physics. It’s kind of hard to read, only because certain sections need some devoted time to finish and I can only read it in smaller bits until class is over.
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