SO much to do, so little done..

Only did a bit of designing, htmling and javascripting this weekend while creating a temporary 1stNature website instead of LOTS of htmling and templating :C.

At least I did set up a domain name, email address and ftp accounts.. so guess that kinda helped.

School is starting again today and not really looking forward to it yet, which hopefully will change over the course of the upcoming weeks. Not sure why I'm dreading it at the moment, perhaps it's the travel, the previous experience, or just wanting to work and create cool things instead of go to school each day.

We will see what happens today!

Ok maybe not the auto but the macbook pro! Decided My default Leopard install needed a little spice to it so I put together a nice relaxing theme for my notebook.

Changed items are:

• Wallpaper
• Adium theme
• Dock
• Folder icons
• Application icons
• Firefox theme
• Cover Sutra
• Launchbar

I'm really satisfied with this look (or, at least for now ^^) and maybe I can be more productive again!

Today we had a meeting with Lable and eventually we found ourselves talking about renting office space together. We were browsing some offices and found some rather nice ones and affordable for us, so we decided to go visit it and it was quite motivational seeing the building that could well be ours in the near future!

We still have a lot to check before we will go through with the acquisition, but I for one am very swooned by the building ^^.

Tomorrow me and Maurice will go bootcamp some site work so we can get our new hardware, in order to proceed our multi touch work. Busy, busy, busy, but so satisfied!

I am pretty much swamped in work at the moment, but in a good way I guess. New jobs keep popping up and they are getting bigger in scope and more exciting in concept!

Some of the sites that I am currently working on are:

• Stenden (student lounge)
• Osen (camping)
• KIK (youth projects)
• De galerie van Een (gallery)
• De herberg van Een (bed and breakfast)
• Bootsman sloepen (boats)
• Silverfish sloepen (boats)
• 1stNature portfolio (personal)
• Zi-Games competitions (personal)

Most of them are due September, so I will need to get cracking ^^. It should be alright though since most of them are already designed and just need to be sliced, coded and added to a CMS.

I guess I will also need to finally put up the portfolio section of my own site sometime soon to show the work I have done recently and perhaps discuss future projects. September will be an exciting time!

So I tried to make ebi gyoza with the ingredients I had:

• Gamba shrimp
• Water chestnuts
• Spring onion
• Spinach
• Soy sauce
• Oyster sauce
• Sesame oil
• Salt
• Pepper
• Sugar

A lot of cutting and mixing later I had the mixture finished and the folding of the wraps was about to happen. So...WHY do the chinese have square wraps..really.. It is so difficult to make pretty gyoza when the wraps are freaking square! ^^

I did some folding and created around 50 gyoza with the mixture I had, I think my gyoza were pretty small though so I guess it was like 30 full sized gyoza. Threw some of them in the pan and fried for a few minutes on both sides, added water and steamed them for a few more.

Let me tell you..they might not be the prettiest gyoza I have seen, but damn they tasted good!! After finishing around 40 of them my stomach couldn't really handle any more gyoza but they had to be finished >_<