• I've got a new page design in the works. I've had the mushroom theme for over 4 years now, and it's time for a change. I've got my hands full with this house-buying thing right now, but stay tuned.

• As a result of playing with the library's new digital camera, I have a new picture to add to the archive.

• Added a new picture to the archive. Cutting my hair shorter than my shoulders for the first time in 15 years was a monumental event.

• Added a genealogy section to my interests (including lots of links).
• Minor housekeeping of links -- removed some and added others to my bookmarks.

• I've just added some brand spanking new questions to my guest survey. Go ahead and take it again!

• Did some minor tidying up of bookmarks and links, and added the following new links to my bookmarks: Google (Searching), Qwestdex (Reference), Realtor.com (Reference) and WebMD (Home/Health).

• Spruced up the Literary Conquests page to include thumbnails of the book covers via Amazon. Nothing overly phenomenal, but it adds some color and looks a bit more interesting.

• Updated and added the following new links to my bookmarks: CeeBee's RRT2 Site (Hobby/Games), Minnesota Renaissance Festival (MN/Things to Do), YourDictionary (Hobby/Language), Geocaching (Sports), World Wide Words (Hobby/Language) and A damn cool image of Earth (Hobby/Science).

• Added a new picture to the archive, Jonas and I at the 2000 MN State Fair.

• Visitors can now recommend a book for me to read, via a form on my Literary Conquests page. Make it sound good and I might just read it.

• Added a SURVEY to my webpages! Please try it out!

• Added a "penpalling" section to my Interests page and also cleaned up that page a little bit.
• Added a new picture of some Lourdeses to the archive.
• Updated and added the following new links to my bookmarks: A Penpal World (Hobby/Penpalling), Eden Prairie (MN/Places to Go), Eden Prairie News (MN/Newspapers), Eden Prairie weather (MN), Hennepin County (MN/Places to Go), Hennepin County Libraries (Hobby/Books), Minnesota Orienteering Club (Sports), Mostly, We Eat (Hobby/Books), Oprah's Book Club (Hobby/Books), Peep Research (Fun), Penpal International (Hobby/Penpalling), Penpals Now! (Hobby/Penpalling), Sassociations (Hobby/Penpalling), SETI@home (Fun), SETI@home, Team NannyMUD (Fun), U.S. Orienteering Federation (Sports), Weather.com (Reference).

• Added a picture with my in-laws to the archive.

• Added a Dewey Decimal System of Classification page. I couldn't find one anywhere online when I was looking for one, so I made one myself.
• I created a little site for my graduating class to share news, updates, etc. - Mound Westonka High School Class of 1994.

• Did some general updating to reflect changes since last September and that we're living in the Cities again.
• Ditched the Companies & Products pages. I got tired of keeping them updated most of the information was easy enough to find, anyway.

• Created a new page about my favorite computer games.
• Added the following links to my bookmarks: All Recipes.com (Home/Cooking), An Organized Home (Home/Misc.), Blue Baron's RRT II Strategy Guide (Hobby/Games), Book-A-Minute (Hobby/Books), Caesar III - Build a Better Rome (Hobby/Games), Caesar III Heaven - Senate (Hobby/Games), Caesar III - Which Way to Rome? (Hobby/Games), High School Alumni (School), Learn2.com (Home/Misc.), Pharaoh (Hobby/Games), Railroad Tycoon II (Hobby/Games), RollerCoaster Tycoon (Hobby/Games), Settlers Series (Hobby/Games), Trilobite Cookies (Hobby/Science).

• The wedding pages are UP! I still have a bit of tinkering to do but all the pictures are there, so check it out!

• I have rewritten and added more pictures to my First Trip to Sweden page, making it more like a story (as with our Summer Roadtrip '97 page), rather than simply random captioned pictures. Enjoy!

• Added two new pictures of my sister to the archive.

• Added Great Outdoor Recreation Pages to my Travel Links and added "My Weirdest Experiences" to the Insight categories in About Me.
• Added the following links to my bookmarks: broadcast.com (Media/Radio), Custard Pie Hedgehog Postcards (Fun), FreeShop (Shopping), Hedgehog Happenings (Home/Pets), News of the Weird (Fun), The Pillsbury Doughboy (Home/Cooking), World Flag Database (Reference).

Absolutely everything! Well, perhaps that isn't entirely true; some bits and pieces here and there remain the same. Overall, however, all of the pages have been redone and are now, in my opinion, a bit more aesthetically pleasing. Why the overhaul? Recently, upon trying out the program FrontPage, I realized how stubborn I had been, insistent on writing out all my HTML by hand, when it could have been done so much faster and much more easily. Part of my reluctance was based on some kind of belief that using a visual editor was "cheating", but I think I'll get over it.

While several of my original pages still exist, none have gone entirely unchanged. In addition, I've added lots of new information and features. Noteworthy additions and changes to my webpages include:

• new pages about my hobbies and interests, including my bookshelf and what I've read, cross-stitch, and hedgehogs
• new pages about travel, including roadtrips, my favorite travel links, a directory of national tourism sites, a directory of state tourism sites and a directory of state government sites
• new pages about my biography, a sitemap, this website update page and my personal update page
• new pictures added to the picture archive, including all of my school pictures, Kindergarten through graduation