Well, the biggest update, I have moved. Yes, again. This time it is for good though. It is a very nice house, with a wondeful view over a lake. I can’t wait for the summer time so I can go fishing in it. The new house is in Downingtown, about 20 minutes from the Exton mall. It’s not that far, but its not West Chester :-(.
Another note, I am now hosting all of my sites out of my house. I finally got a cable modem in the house (after trying for the past year), so I moved my sites off Dauntless to save my bandwidth up at PSU. There should be no problems with the change of location.
Lastly, I am trying to start my own business. I found a few people up at PSU that wanted go go intro a Web design business. So we started New Pixel Media. So far, it looks like this is going to work out. We are all very excited to do this, and we are all willing to devote the time and effort to pull it off. Now all we have to do is to get clients...yay.
Well, that is it for now. Everyone have a good Easter!
Spring break was wonderful! I don’t know where to start. Well, over spring break I had the opportunity to go with Jessica to Florida to help with Habitat for Humanity for Greater Miami. I had such a wonderful time there.
The bus ride down was interesting. Our bus driver, Skip, was a very…interesting man. He always had a story to tell, or a joke about something. He helped make the 24 hour bus ride not so bad. We were also forced to watch about 5 movies on the way down…from “Toy Story 2” to “She’s All That”. The ride back was basically the same thing. 24 hours of movies and sleep. We stayed at a church in Baltimore for the night on Saturday so we could go to church the next day. That was fun cause it was good food and a nice place to stay (that didn’t have wheels).
At Miami, we stayed at a place called Camp Freedom. To start, they over packed the place. We had to have people sleep on floors, and the groups that were staying there had to fight for the dinning hall when it was time to eat. Along with that, we weren’t allowed to flush toilet paper (or “T.P.” as the caretaker called it) because it would hurt the septic system or some stupid reason like that. Yeah, I know, stupid. Oh, yeah, and the camp had ducks too. These ducks for some reason liked to hiss at me. They would try to chase me across the camp all week. On the last day, I had my revenge. I chased them into the pond at the camp ground…they never bothered me again :-). We also had roosters that woke the guy’s cabin up at 4am every morning. She girl’s cabin was plagued with lizards, cockroaches, and geckos. I can’t forget to mention the snakes that hung around the camp either. Regardless to say, I do not think that I will be going back to that camp ever again.
Habitat for Humanity was an interesting story in itself. First, we had to sign there nice little contracts. The two interesting points were basically: “if your house falls on you, it’s not our fault” and “we can’t even give you first aid without first contacting a manger to get his approval.” Of course, when someone thinks of Habitat for Humanity, they think of building houses and such. This was the idea I came to Habitat for Humanity with. However, when we got there we were instructed to “remove all the rocks from this dirt around the houses so they don’t cause any problems in the future. When you are done that, you can level out the ground around the houses.” Yeah, I was thrilled with that one. Needless to say, my hammer and tape measure stayed in my bag all day :-). The next day we had to dig holes to plant trees in. This doesn’t sound that bad, until you realize that there is solid coral only three inches under the dirt. The thing that I don’t get: why do you want to plat palm trees in a rock bed? Last time I checked, trees don’t have that great of a chance of living if they are planted in slid rock. But yeah, digging 3 foot holes in that was not fun. It took 6 people 3 hours to dig just one hole. Fortunately there were about 50 of us, so we got the 18 holes done in about 4 hours. While one group was digging, they hit a pipe with power lines in it. One more whack and someone could have been killed. When Habitat found out about this, they scratched their heads and said “now, that shouldn’t be there.” I feel really bad for one group because the whole they dig for three hours got filled in because the leaders told them to dig it, then changed their mind. For the last two days we finished up the landscaping. This included laying Sod. For those of you who don’t know what that is, it is insta-lawn. It is pre-made grass/dirt squares that you just lay down and wow, you’ve got a yard! Sod also conveniently comes with fire ants in it, just to make life that much more interesting.
Don’t get me wrong. Even though the camp and Habitat for Humanity had its, well, odd points, it was a wonderful time. On the last day, when all the sod was down, I looked at what was once a dirt bed with rocks and now saw a nice looking group of yards. This is what made all of the work worth while. It may not have been what I expected, but it was a very rewarding experience that I would do again in a heartbeat. It think that this is the best spring break that I have had in a very long time.
