Today I finally went to print with the PACC newsletter. It was suppose to go last Friday, but some last minute content changes forced us to delay. There has been a steep learning curve doing the newsletter, I had never really used MS Word for anything more complicated than our annual family newsletter. The biggest mistake I made was designing the newsletter for print on 8.5x11 paper, not the 11x17 paper we had decided to print on. This meant when I went to create the PDF version in Acrobat 4 the pages were out of order. I now know it's 4,1 and 2,3 so that when folded in half like a book it will all be correctly ordered. whew! Well, at least that kind of thing only has to be learned once.

Yesterday I began work on the Tidewater MAGDRL (Great Dane Rescue)website. I'm building the design from the ground up and filling it with the content on their existing site. As is my preference I'm building it in strictly HTML, no java or shockwave. It should take a few weeks before I have it up. The main task is creating all the graphics.

My mom went back home yesterday. She finally committed to moving in with us this summer. We hope to take a 4 day weekend this summer and drive down to Savannah, GA for a mini-vacation. While there we will pack her things and bring her back with us.

We finally bought a new TV this weekend. The boys' TV broke a couple months ago so we decided we would get a new TV for our bedroom and give them ours. We ended up with a 27" JVC from BJ's. It has Component in for our DVD player and S-Video in for DirecTV. Of course, once we got it hooked up I realized just how bad the picture on the 10 year old Sony TV we gave the boys actually is so I'd like to get them a new one in a couple of months.

We've been patiently watching our stock rise. We have set our sale price for our first chunk at $45. Hopefully it will get there in the next couple of months. The other 3 chunks we are saving to use as a down payment on this house when we our lease ends and we go to buy it in 2007. It's odd to have a three year plan!