The kids, in no uncertain terms, let me know that I was making a big mistake by changing the website colors. It seems that I am diluting my “brand” as was manifested by Bryan’s comment. So now that I have the colors back to their original state, now I need to get the sidebar over on the left-hand side of the page. I have not quite figured out how to do that yet, but I am working on it. I certainly do not want to dilute the brand. While I was at it, I had Christian GIMP me up an image of the family to use as a logo and revamped the Betty Blonde site, too.
On Saturday, while I worked on the web sites, Christian soldered the crystals into the ham radio kit. He then disassembled, cleaned, lubed, and reassembled the elliptical machine because it had a loud squeak. We all plan to use it more now. There is still just a little bit of a squeak, but the machine runs as smoothly now as when we first purchased it. Kelly drew me up some comic strips to scan in and started thinking about a new logo for the top of the Betty Blonde page that features all the main characters. We decided we want to design a t-shirt to give away to one person per month for anyone who subscribes to the daily emails. So she is thinking about that now, too.
On Sunday morning, we got a call from our friends Albert and Roxanne to invite us over for dinner to their house Sunday evening. We had already made arrangements to have lunch with Troy and Youngin after meeting. I think I took major advantage of the poor newlyweds. They bought lunch, so I had one of those super maximum über burritos. Then we went home, I did the kids weekly work assignment sheets and we all piled in the car to go to Wendell. We had a GREAT time. Leonard and Lisa and their family of four homeschoolers were their for a grand total of seven kids not including the baby. We had AWESOME barbecue ribs and chicken, an amazing salad, dessert–the WORKS! Albert and Roxanne are a well oiled machine when it comes to entertaining people.
Of course, none of this weekend was particularly good for the diet. The kids tell me I write that I have fallen off the wagon on my diet every weekend, so I won’t write that. The fact of the the matter is, though, that I did fall off the wagon on the diet. I hopped back on this morning, all fat and happy.