We’ve been promising to do this for ages, but this week we added a nice email notification feature to ChezArtz. Take a look in the sidebar at the bottom where it says “Get Notified of Updates.” Simply type in your email address and click Send to get a handy dandy email whenever we post something [...]
OK, the title isn’t nearly as fun without the sound effects…But do you remember that song, “There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea (bump, bump!)”? Well, as of yesterday, we have a hole in the middle of our plot up in Lyons…Yes, it’s true, construction has officially begun. They dug the hole for [...]
Wow, it seems like ChezArtz has been down more than it’s been up these past two weeks. We’ve migrated from JumpLine to BlueHost (thank goodness!), and I spent yesterday evening massaging those pesky MySQL databases into a form that could be uploaded here so that you guys could read all of my archived posts. As [...]
Yet again, I look to The Non-Toxic Times (Seventh Generation’s eNewsletter) for inspiration for this post. For some time now, I have been trying to lower our petroleum consumption not just by driving less, but by eliminating petroleum products from our household products. Although it has its challenges (I’ll post some other time about the [...]
Today was just one of those days. I awoke to a rather frosty reply from DePauw’s President Bottoms with regards to his decision to sever ties with my sorority. I jumped right into a meeting that I felt did more to foster competition (and yes I mean the unhealthy kind) between my co-workers than to [...]
So we spent 3.5 hours this morning picking out exactly what floor tile, wall tile, counter-top tile (master bath), and carpet we wanted for the new house. We were like kids in the candy store at Eheart Interiors’ brand new showroom in Loveland. The new showroom has cool two-story waterfalls in the atrium and funky [...]
Yes, it’s true, McConnell Court is taking shape nicely. That is to say, they poured the concrete for the curbs last week and the street itself should go in this week. We should have a firm estimate of ground-breaking by this afternoon, but it looks like we’ll definitely have a hole to call our own [...]
For those of you who check in with ChezArtz frequently, you might have noticed that we’ve been down for the past couple of days. I won’t bore you with the technical details (or a blow-by-blow recap of all the calls I’ve made to our web hosting service, Jumpline, in the past three days), but I [...]
About a month ago, I started the Entertainment category on this blog in hopes of forcing myself to read some good books after months spent reading nothing but Dr. Seuss. Last night, I finished the first novel I’ve read in about a year, Peter Carey’s Theft. Matt claims that this is the best book he’s [...]
Update: I seem to have gotten my database cleaned up. Yes, there are still some duplicate posts and there is also some funky formatting, but ChezArtz lives! And I even got the comments pulled across. Woo hoo! If you’re curious, yes, I had to give myself a crash refresher course in SQL, but I did [...]