July 10, 2015

 Today was kind of productive. Not as good as yesterday but I did things. Those things all related to the group website. I figured out how to turn the individual buttons in my horizontal navigation menu into a bar across the top of the screen. Took me a lot longer than it should have. I also came up with fonts for the page and a font design for the main title of the company on the home page. I even got the main title to properly resize when I resize the browser window. While I was messing around I discovered that using the 'Inspect Element' feature with Chrome, I could go into the developer options and test out what the website looks like on different devices. That would have been nice to know when I was working on my personal website.

The vast majority of my day was spent fiddling with the code for the website. The last thing I worked on was trying to put the company logo in the menu bar. That was easy enough to do but that aligned the menu buttons with the top of the logo, rather than being centered in the bar, so it looked weird. Ideally, I would like the logo to be off by itself on the left side of the screen and the menu buttons to stay where they're at in the center of the bar. I can get them to be horizontally centered but they aren't centered vertically. I can manually adjust them to be centered vertically but then when I resize the screen and the buttons get shifted down to the next row they go outside of the menu bar. I might keep messing with it because I know there's probably a simple solution. Or I might say forget it and just put the logo down in the body of the page. We'll see.

Tomorrow morning we have another group meeting and after that I might take the rest of the day off from the website. I need to put some serious time into my management class. I still have pretty much all of the grant proposal project and that deadline is quickly approaching. What I really need to do is write down all of my upcoming due dates, on a physical piece of paper, so I can have those handy. Everything is kind of coming to a head and I know I will quickly become overwhelmed if I don't get at least a little organized.

Tonight I hung out with my friend for a few hours. She came over and got to see the new house for the first time. Most of the time we sat at my computer and watched random YouTube videos while talking about all sorts of random things. I'm a fan of random conversations. At one point I left her alone for awhile so she could record herself answering whatever questions she wanted to from a long list I found online. I want to start recording the voices of my friends and family and I figured I would start with her because she is moving soon. Eventually I would like to have a fixed set of questions that I have people answer. And maybe get a different microphone so I can do it more interview or podcast style and actually ask them the questions. For now, I just pulled up the questions I found, set up the microphone, and left her alone so she could do her thing. I figured it might be a little weird with me just sitting there silently. I know that I feel weird enough talking into a microphone when I'm by myself and I would probably feeling even weirder if someone was watching me. So I left her alone. And looking at all the little sound spikes in the file, I'm assuming she talked about things. In the future maybe I might go through and actually listen to the recordings I make, but for now they're just for sometime in the future.

Now I need to go to bed so I can wake up for my class meeting. This past week I have been sleeping past the point that the meeting is scheduled for, and I would like to not do that tomorrow. It would also be nice to be able to take a shower beforehand. I'm still a little anxious about the whole video conferencing thing but it was fine last time and will probably be fine again tomorrow.