Updates

New message board. Try it out. Barring a major server crash from the provider, I am not going to move to a new one. And that is a promise. Also working on an archived page, setting up more picture pages, and maybe a new site design if I’m really bored.

Congratulations!

It’s official! Congratulations to Leslie for earning her Master’s degree in Counseling & Student Personnel. She’s pretty happy about that as you can imagine. You can find more pictures here.

Just to let you know, we will be out of town to the NAFSA Conference in San Antonio. Basically, Leslie will go, I will run around and enjoy my first trip out of Oklahoma in awhile. We will be accompanied by Nana & Fabrice (whose website are on the Links to Friends menu).

Also, I just want to reiterate that we do have a new message board. Visit, sign up, and try to make it interesting. As a reminder, I would like any birthdays/anniversaries/etc. from you all so I can work on a calendar. Just email it to me. Thanks.

Fun with Ogre

Have a lot of updates coming soon. First off, we have an actual and final message board. Really, I promise. Go to the Content – Message Board link to get there. Also, I have updated the Support page with some links to software I use and some support sites of note. I have also trimmed down the code for the menu. Hopefully that will speed up some of the page load times.

There is a lot more to come as I am finally figuring out some time management between life, work, reading, training and the site itself. Wish me luck and feel free to jump in with any suggested comments and idea.

But first, from the files of Deb & Jody Wittmeyer, a lighter side of Ogre:

Cory, Renee & her niece Abby (yeah, that’s right,
Ogre’s smiling for once)		Cory & Abby at play

(I have to mention that I originally messed up a caption. Abby is Chris’ daughter (Jody’s son). I really ought to try to get home more often so I don’t make as many idiotic mistakes. Apologies all around.)

As Jody’s email goes: “John, here are a couple pictures of the tough guy! Thought you may find some room on your web site.(Although he doesn’t know 😉 …. Enjoy! Make it good, so I can laugh before he kills me.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Bewildered

Wow, I have been totally lax with the updates. I promise to get that going soon. However, I need a little help from you guys. I am looking at a couple content ideas. If you would, give me some ideas about favorite restaurants/attractions/etc. as I am looking at personalized travelogues about certain cities.

Also, if you would like some special dates put on a calendar, please send those dates along so we can share those with everyone. Thanks.

Snow Day

Actually I did go to work, but it is snowing here, which is somewhat of an irregular experience.

For now though, a couple things that made me laugh:

Zits online comic strip for February 6

A mock-up movie poster from our friends at Mad Magazine.

For those who care, I am redesigning Otherland and may have that back up in all its glory next month. Stay tuned.

Also archived any news older than the first of the year (which I understand doesn’t leave a whole lot).

It’s Julia

We’ve just returned from our wonderful trip to Illinois. Thanks to all those who made it a truly special visit. Perhaps more on that later. What we really want to highlight right now though is the birth of our new niece Julia Leigh Stahl. Congrats to Brenda, Tim and the boys on the new member of their family. For more info, check out this link.

Hmm…they seem to have removed a picture from that link…here it is: