You might have noticed I rebooted, woohoo! I hear you asking, "Wait Chris, now your site looks exactly the same, what the dillio?" First of all, I don't think we're supposed to use the word 'dillio' anymore, and, as I mentioned, It's been busy! I added a few minor tweaks a couple of days ago, including the new fancy, 'Subscribe' button up on the left, I added pagination to the top of the page (it used to only be at the bottom, now you can actually see it!), and I added a few nice buttons to the bottom of each post. I recently re-designed the site just within the window of reboot-eligibility, so there! Voting is open through Thursday I believe (I know, great timing) so head on over and vote for me! Look for Ascend Visual at the bottom of the list somewhere...

Things are still a bit crazy 'round these parts and I thought things were letting up just a tad until last Friday...

Yep, that's our car. Me, the wife, and the kids made our way to Los Angeles last Friday and ran into a little hickup. Ashley had to go down for a business trip so we decided to make a weekend of it and visit with my mom down there. Everyone is OK except the Rav4—she's a little pissed. Other than that we had a pretty good time. We went bowling with my parents, hung out, etc.

Bowling!

Now we're back home, back to business, and after a rough weekend, decided to spoil myself by picking up a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV so just as a warning, my language might be getting a little dirtier here in the coming weeks.

This year, for the first time ever, I'm participating in the May 1st Reboot. Basically the premise is that you take your site offline for a week (starting later today!) with a nice pink placeholder along the lines of this...

... and then the whole community 'reboots' simultaneously on May 1st with brand new sites. I might be sort of cheating as I just recently redesigned my site, so when I come back, not much will have changed. I'd like to say there might be some nice new tidbits here and there that I've been thinking of implementing, but I think I'm just too busy for it at the moment.

Either way, I'm excited! Some of the coolest web nerds in the world are involved in the project and I found out about it while I was in school a few years ago through a very talented designer/developer by the name of Paul Szypula, whom I believe is responsible for the Flash radness that is the site. It was founded (in part) by another designer whom I really admire, James Widegren, and my very own web-nerd-cool boss has an incredibly inspiring quote floating around on the May 1st site. Are you participating in the reboot? Show me some before and after baby! Don't miss me too much while I'm away...