now back to your regularly scheduled program

Not that I doubted it for a second, but it turns out that my tech support is indeed the best out there.

He's the kind of guy who I can IM and say, So, I'm technologically challenged. Can you help me change the layout of my blog? I need a new template. And I need you to modify that template for me so I can make it show a header that I put together. Also, can you change the color of the links? Blue and purple is way too garish. Turquoise and lighter turquoise would be great. No, hang on, a little lighter. Yeah, you're right; the other one should be a little darker too. What's that? You want to make the links a different color when you hover over them? Go for it. Wow, that's a nice red you picked there. Not too ... what was the word? ... garish.

And then, just when the blog is looking pretty sharp (if I do say so myself) and everything has fallen neatly into place, he sends me a video of my niece, stretching and making all kinds of little gurgly baby noises while she tries to wake up. And my heart explodes into a million pieces in my chest, and it feels like love.

Thanks Matt; I couldn't ask for a better techie/nerd/brother.

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Ali,

I've been reading your blog for months, and crying and laughing, alternately. And then praying. For you and the kids.

Hurray for your brother, and thank you for making the text just a wee bit bigger. Really. Thank you.

But I would read what you write even if I needed a magnifying glass and it was all in pink (my least favorite color!)

God be with you,

Julie

#1 Julie (Homepage) on 2008-12-04 18:22 (Reply)

Oh dear ... I've had a few people thanking me since the change for making it easy to read ... I never realized it was difficult, probably because the text is bigger in my editing suite.

Whoops!

Anything else anyone can think of that would make this little corner of the web a little more homey? Let me know!

#1.1 AliRae (Homepage) on 2008-12-04 19:30 (Reply)

It looks good! It is so handy having techie folks in the family. I didn't have any of my own so I married mine, and it's worked out very well.

Congratulations on the new niece!

#2 Laura (Homepage) on 2008-12-04 20:01 (Reply)

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