{"id":1640,"date":"2011-05-07T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T22:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2011-05-07T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T22:26:57","slug":"theme-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2011\/05\/07\/theme-update\/","title":{"rendered":"New theme and update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve managed to make a couple of banners using Picnik<\/a> that I’m pleased with. The banner I really liked is getting created by a friend who has Photoshop. Once she sends me that I may completely replace the rotating banners of Violet and Mark with that one. Although I do like seeing those rotate as I reload my page.<\/p>\n

The old theme was pretty to look at, but there was so much going on, and with my little netbook screen the posts seemed very small to me. I think this is cleaner. Do you use WordPress? What is your favorite theme?<\/p>\n

In other news I wrote a post for Chicago Bites<\/a> about my lunch at Benny’s Chop House<\/a>. It’s a good place for business lunches. Good food, nice and quiet so you don’t have to scream. Go see the pictures and read all about it. I like being the designated meat eater.<\/p>\n

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Dark Lord Beer<\/p><\/div>\n

Speaking of designated person… I was the designated driver on last weekend’s Dark Lord Day. I drove the tribe out to 3 Floyd’s Brewery<\/a> in Munster, IN. This year’s event was much better organized than last year. I enjoyed less crowds, the line to purchase your beer moved VERY fast and the catering of our little group by Carnwennan<\/a> was AMAZING! Camping by the car or picnicking in the park with her is the best thing ever! Since my ticket was for group C, I spent most of the day hanging in the park across the street from the industrial park that houses 3 Floyd’s. It used to be a garbage dump but now it’s the prettiest park and they have a nice picnicking shelter. It was a fairly warm and sunny day. I really liked just being outside. Unfortunately most of my games are card games and with the wind that made playing the games I brought a challenge. But we were up for several rounds of Apples to Apples and we managed to make it work.<\/p>\n

I’ve also recently discovered the TV show Weeds<\/a>. I’ve made it through Season 4. I’ve now got to locate seasons 5 and 6 so I can be all caught up. During the closing credits of one episode I heard a very familiar song from a band I was recently introduced to, DeVotchKa<\/a>, I’m pretty sure the song was Contrabanda<\/a>.\u00a0 Awesome band, you should check them out.<\/p>\n

Aside from my allergies kicking my ass, that’s all I’ve got for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve managed to make a couple of banners using Picnik that I’m pleased with. The banner I really liked is getting created by a friend who has Photoshop. Once she sends me that I may completely replace the rotating banners of Violet and Mark with that one. Although I do like seeing those rotate as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}