Happy birthday to my lovely wife Kim today.
Her first birthday as a mother, got her first Happy Birthday Mommy card from Joshua.
Received:
Age of Empires III – The War Chiefs expansion from Joshua
Facial, Eye Treatment & Flowers from Hubs
Leather Handbag from Jason & Jane
Colourful top from Lee & Paula
Stress Buster No. 4.
Don’t stay up late.
Not enough sleep increases the effect of stress on your body. We need sleep for mental and physical renewal. Try these ideas for better sleep:
Did you hear about the two blondes who froze to death in a drive-in movie?
They had gone to see “Closed for the Winter.”
A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss asked sympathetically, “What’s the matter?”
The blonde replies, “Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away.”
The boss, feeling sorry for her, says, “Why don’t you go home for the day? Take the day off to relax and rest.”
“Thanks, but I’d be better off here. I need to keep my mind off it and I have the best chance of doing that here. ” The boss agrees and allows the blonde to work as usual. A couple of hours pass and the boss decides to check on the blonde.
He looks out from his office and sees the blonde crying hysterically. “What’s so bad now? Are you gonna be okay?” he asks. “No!” exclaims the blonde.
“I just received horrible news from my sister. Her mother died, too!”
I’ve whipped up a (VERY) basic gallery for you to play with.
It’s much easier and quicker to do stuff with action script than it is to do with manual effects.
Look at the attached gallery.swi
If you can’t open it because you have an older version of swishmax, use the code below
Add all your large images to the scene and give each one a unique name in the SHAPE tab and tick the target box.
This just allows you to control this image later with action script
I added five images, each named image#, where # is a unique number.
On Scene_1′s SCRIPT tab enter the following
onLoad () {
// Sets the five named and targeted images to invisible
image1._visible = false;
image2._visible = false;
image3._visible = false;
image4._visible = false;
image5._visible = false;
}function resetImages() {
// Resets the five named images to invisible before making one visible onRelease
image1._visible = false;
image2._visible = false;
image3._visible = false;
image4._visible = false;
image5._visible = false;
}
Create and place the corresponding thumbnails and for each one add this to it’s script
on (release) {
// Call the function to reset all images to invisible
resetImages();
// Make selected image visible
// Correspond this next line to the image you want to show for this thumbnail
image1._visible = true;
}
Good luck
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Well Howdy All.
Firstly, I’d just like to wish Emmerson and Charlie a big congratulations on their engagement from Kim, Joshua and I.
We are super stoked for you both.
Well, Joshua is now 16 weeks,
I’ve thrown together a Best of Joshua 01 video clip for you to watch in the videos section of this site.
You can see some of Joshua’s special moments over the last few weeks.
Smiling, Laughing, Giggling, Sneezing, Talking, Screaming, and a special playtime with his cousin Nicholas Rattray
Turn the sound up enjoy.
Well, I said I was going to do the firewood last weekend, and I didn’t 
Instead, I changed the layout of the photo gallery.
Once an album is selected, you’ll be able to select any of the photos in that album easier by scrolling through the thumbnails from the list at the top of the photo. (Just hover over the middle icon).
For a list of what buttons do what, simply hover over the help icon (bottom middle of photo).
There’s a couple of new ones of Joshua in there as well.
So a couple of changes and additions to the AdrianHodge.com site this week.
Hope you all have a fantastic weekend, looks like it could be a great one.
I’m off to Paeroa on Sunday for some NZ Superbike street racing, should be awesome.
Ciao for now and enjoy this weeks funnies
Stress Buster No. 3.
Distractions can act like circuit breakers for stress. They give you “time out” and new thoughts to think. Ideas include: a short walk, a new location for a tea break, five minutes of a funny DVD, visiting a friend in another department, listening to music or sharing a riddle:
What did the dirt say when it rained?
If this keeps up, my name’s mud.
What’s the best thing to take when you’re run down?
The license number of the car that hit you.
The pharmacist walks into the store to find a guy leaning heavily against a wall.
He asks the female clerk “What’s with that guy over there by the wall?”
The female clerk responds: “Well, he came in here this morning to get something for his cough. I couldn’t find the cough syrup, so I gave him an entire bottle of laxative.”
The pharmacist yells: “You idiot! You can’t treat a cough with a laxative!”
The female clerk responds, “Of course you can! Look at him, he’s afraid to cough.
Welcome to the personal website of Adrian Hodge. I'm a web designer/developer living in Rotorua, New Zealand. Married with two lovely kids, I have a love of motorcycles and gadgets. I work for Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing during the day and run Hodgeman Web & Design after hours.
