BOO!



some thought this looked a little like owen. it was taken from the msn home page a week or so ago.

on the technical side of things, i may have found a new host for this website. if that is the case, i would no longer have to worry about ad banners and ad pop-ups, which would of course rock. the only problem is i think i would have to transfer my domain name "thirdthoughts.com" to a different registrar. it now resides at "register.com". i looked into hosting my site at the new location and i don't think i can do a redirect from register.com. i'm thinking i would actually have to transfer my domain name to the new webhost. i don't have to renew my domain name until may of '04 so i may wait until then to do the change. so far the time being, everything will remain the same. the potential new webhost is free for 3 years, at which time you could continue the hosting, for a fee, or discontinue. i'm considering doing it because, hey free web hosting! (for 3 years anyway). i know interesting stuff but it feels good to get it off my chest. next post will not contain any thing quite this exciting...

had an average to slightly above average weekend. went to the vikings game on sunday and watched them do something they haven't done all year (lose). it's amazing how seriously some people take this stuff. it's ok to be a fan, but if this is your whole life? well, that's just sort of sad. we had a great time though and the price was right.
also glad to see the marlins knock off the yankees in 6. that's what they get for beating my twins and redsox.
since my membership at the Y has expired, i decided to get some home-gym equipment. bought a cross-trainer that i plan to use 3 time per week. it was a floor model, so i got a deal, but it's not as heavy duty as the industrial kind you see at the clubs. it should do the trick. i'll miss basketball, but it was getting hard on my 35 yr old knees.
that's it for now, more later...

i made a few changes...it now looks equally mediocre in both 800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions. i also have all archived blogs archived. if you ever need to go back to see what i was thinking\doing in say, my of 2002, it's all there. don't know if i'm 100% happy with everything here but it serves it's purpose of a., freshening up the look here, and b., providing me some space to add more pics over time. so there you have it. the new true blue version of thirdthoughts. any errors, be it factual, web graphics, spelling, punctuation or grammar, either percieved, or valid, occurred either during transmission, or are because you are using an antiquated obsolete browser, or have faulty equipment.

discovered a couple of other things that need fixing. for example, i found that this site does not view well with 800x600 screen resolution. also, i need to get the blog archives part corrected. need some time to do this, but i wanted to get the website published before i did the tweaking. also, you may notice that the angelfire ads are semi-blocked. this was unintentional but i sort of like. anyway, i'm sure it violates angelfires agreement, so i'll probably need to figure out how to make the ads reappear at the top of the page, before they ban me for a violation. ideally, i'd like to get this site hosted elsewhere where ther are no pop-ups or ad-banners. more to come...

ok, what do you think? it's blue isn't it. still have some kinks to work out but it's a start. more soon...

another week is past, another weekend begins. i'm a bit run down after staying up almost every night this week watching the baseball playoffs. yes, my redsox lost in grand fashion, but it was a heck of a series. i'm officially a florida marlins fan now, even though this series doesn't interest me as much as a cub vs. redsox matchup would have. just gotta go with the underdog and against steinbrenner. supposed to be a mild weekend, got lots of chores to do. not much real news. getting together with the extended family for awhile tomorrow to celebtrate my grandmas birthday.
still wondering what to do, if anything, to this website. i keep getting bursts of energy to change things, and then it's gone. we'll see what happens.

time for an october post...i'm still considering redoing this website as it has had this current look and feel for some time. it's getting a little stale and tired. i'm thinking about simplifying things, maybe ditching some of the old pictures, as space is constantly an issue for me. maybe cutting down on some of the pages and generally keeping it smaller overall. i have a couple of ideas, we'll see what happens.
it's been an absolutley gorgeous week here! sunny and 80's...today could be the last day of indian summer. have my fall state softball tournament this saturday and then that's it til next year.
lots of chores to do at home. thinking about taking a couple of vacation days next week?