The Godbit Project did a kind review of rockisu.com

The first thing that grabs your attention when visiting the site is the texture. I love the way the look of ruggedness intermixes with the clean lines. The two conflict yet compliment each other, for a sort of modernly urban feel. The next thing that catches your eye is the photography, reinforcing the notion that this Iowa State University ministry is about reaching out to real people.

I mean like now. As in, call your tech guy, or get out a DVD-R, or whatever you do, and back up your files.

Fortunately, I backed my business finances (quickbooks file) off of Nancy’s laptop where she keeps them the DAY before we went into the hospital (after the last time we modified them). The DAY we got back from the hospital, the hard drive fried. No warning, no decline in performance, just one moment it decided to not boot and made a bunch of weird noises. We lost everything except that file. E-mail, personal finance records from the month of July (fortunately, we have stuff from halfway through June still) all gone. I’m fairly certain I lost a few apps that I hadn’t put anywhere else.

I think it was a warning shot for my friends and family, back your stuff up, at least your important stuff, TODAY.

Last year I picked up a bike at a garage sale for $15. It’s a bit too short for me, and the tires are always a little low on air (it’s a cheap target brand bike), but it’s a lot of fun to ride. I’ve been riding it around a bit more here and there, and would love to use it for all my short range travelling needs, but it’s just a bit hard to pedal (due to size, and slightly deflated tires.) So I started dreaming…

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The Trek SU100. MSRP: $419.00

A great value. Great bike (according to reviews). Similar to the Giant I owned for 7 weeks before it got stolen, thought that was more of a mountain bike. It’s just a bit out of my price range right now (my price range for bicycles currently being $0).

If anyone knows of a great used bike place, or happens to have a chance to pick one of these up for free (or is just feeling incredibly generous…) let me know :)

Getting in shape, saving money on fuel, and SINGLE HANDEDLY STOPPING GLOBAL WARMING! What more can you ask for? :)

I have just upgraded the MovableType software that NotOurHome lives on. This means changes in many possible things, not the least of which is the way things look when you log in. I’m not sure the extent of the changes, or if everything still works, so if you run into any problems, let me know.

Along with this change comes 2 things:

1. A whole slough of much better looking styles to choose from.
2. I’m going to solicit another round of donations (which I haven’t done in years!). If you could pitch in $5-$10 (or more) bucks, that would really really help Russ and I keep things up and running. The easiest way to do this would be to hand me or Russ cash. The second easiest way would be to donate through paypal with this handy button:

With each donation, I will install a new style of your choosing for you.

Enjoy!

I’m exhausted. The last several weeks have been many late nights and packed schedules doing many different things; mostly working. I have several sites that have gone live or are going live soon over the last several weeks.

In the midst of all of this, I have decided to be a little selfish and give THIS SITE a long over-due makeover. The design is complete, the new WordPress theme is created, all I need to do is click a button. Why haven’t I done this yet? I’m waiting until May 1. I will be participating in May 1 Reboot this year.

Monday at high noon (Central time) you can all see the beautiful new creation. Until then, you can see a small preview/teaser here.