What you’re seeing in the updated interface has been in the making for probably over six months. In fact it’s been mostly ready as an html mockup for most of that time…it just needed to be broken up in to a wordpress template. Then the catalog happened at work…and it lasted for…well, almost six months. And then I just kept putting it off so SurrealPerspectives (not for the first time) was really neglected. But I’m pretty happy with the updated look and now that the template is more accessible, it should be easier to change the background. Also, I know I say this a lot but I really hope to be putting up some newer portfolio stuff pretty soon here as well as a music player.

Unrelatedly and more importantly, we’ll be having a baby soon! December to be more precise. It’s been pretty exciting so far but I know it’ll get better. If you’re interested in getting more frequent updates on the situation, head on over to the blog my wife created for that very purpose: sarah-christmasbaby.blogspot.com

If you are wondering why the website has looked somewhat…unkempt recently, there’s a perfectly good reason. I decided to change hosts (more on that later) and doing so inspired me to perform some much needed housekeeping and reorganizing. The CSS needs tweaking/improvement, the images need reorganized (why some are missing), plugins need installed, etc. So keep checking back for updates!

Okay…maybe not “of justice” but it sounds good. But yeah…there were a couple things I actually meant to post about but never ended up doing so. Hence, winter update.

Anyway, I’ll start from the beginning. Back around Thanksgiving we got a dog (see picture to the left). His name is Chester. Now, you could be wondering how on earth Andrew ended up getting a dog…and sometimes I still wonder the same thing haha. Afterall, I think apartments are a terrible place to raise a dog, I get annoyed with them easily and I think they cost too much money (especially if you live in an apartment). But, when we were walking through PetsMart that one day in November and happened to see the animals from the humane society, I had a moment of weakness. And knowing Sarah really wanted a dog (despite my continuously saying we need to wait until we get a house) I said I’d consider the possibility if he could stay at her parents house (until we got a house). And that’s how it all started. My mom ended up giving him to us as a Christmas present and we decided not to keep him at Sarah’s parents house because we wanted to be able to train him and raise him ourselves. And, for the most part, he’s turned out to be a really good dog. Yes, we’ve had our share of “puppy troubles” that most people likely encounter in a similar situation but he’s a fast learner and pretty well behaved most of the time as long as he doesn’t get too bored. And while it was possibly too soon to get a dog…I think we’ll learn valuable lessons through training him…like patience!

Also, we had plans to go to California right after Christmas for a wedding in which Sarah was a bridesmaid. Well, for Christmas we ended up getting two tickets to Disneyland so we did that as well while in California. And it was my first time! We got to go on Star Tours, Big Thunder Mountain, a handful of Fantasyland rides, Innoventions (which happened to have ASIMO at the time…really cool stuff), Tower of Terror, California Screamin’, Mulholland Madness, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, Indiana Jones and Buzz Lightyear. Unfortunately, we never made it on to Space Mountain due to misplaced fast passes but I’m sure we’ll be back again seeing as you probably need at least two days to do everything.

I also got a handful of cds for Christmas…all of which I thoroughly enjoyed (and still enjoy). But one is by a new band I’ve never mentioned before. This cd is The Heat by NeedToBreathe which was an instant hit for me. I’d highly recommend this album to anyone who enjoys alternative rock.

Finally, you may have noticed that I got around to importing my posts from the old website. Unfortunately, none of the comments made it though as it would have been much too time consuming to add those to the old RSS feed. So if you happened to have a comment on one of those posts that you thought was really important…feel free to go back and re-add it. Ha.

As you can see I have completely redesigned my website…again. This time, however, I would go out on a limb and say it is probably bigger than any of the previous revamps. As you might have noticed, I decided to venture in to the wonderful world of WordPress to streamline everything a bit…and make the website a little more user friendly and less prone to spam attacks. I also made it a little more portfolio centric and am adding tons of content that I’ve wanted to put on here for awhile. I also have merged the web log and news section in to one (or made news a category in the web log) because, lets face it, the news feed on the old site was…useless. At least the lack of any activity on the old site might make a little more sense now. And this website has only been a small part of all the things keeping me busy. Anyway, please continue to check back as I hope to migrate the old posts over here fairly soon and continue to add more images to the portfolio.

As I know some of you have requested this…it’s finally here…the moment you’ve been waiting for. Thats right…my blog is now rss capable and the feed is fully available to your hungry aggregators at http://www.surrealperspectives.com/feed/. It is however, brand new and has been tested only a handful of times so, please let me know if it ceases to function properly. Anyway, that’s probably the biggest news as of late.
I went paintballing again on Saturday and Sunday. The Saturday event was quite short (like two rounds, one of which I was in) so, we decided to meet again on Sunday. I think I’m finally starting to get into the swing of doing this wich is good because I’m able to relax a little more and therefore get more people out . That, and I’ve come to the point where I’ve figured out the major aspects of my gun so it and I get along much more happily than we did in the beginning.
In other news…the weather has been really cool lately. Like almost literally. Not very hot at all…and fairly rainy…almost like Tucson winter but warmer. We get a nice buildup of some crazy looking clouds almost every day. Monsoon season is great…especially this year.
Anyway, I think that’s about it for now. I hope this was good enough stuff for those that were wanting the good stuff .