Tuesday, March 21, 2006
busy
When Crapples shut down his blog, I wished that he would just post when he felt like it and not actually kill it. I can see why he did now. I don't like it that my blog sucks these days. But, I just don't have the time or mental wherewithal lately to write. Still, I'm not ready to be done. I'm hoping that I get back into this thing sooner or later. For now, things just are what they are.

Last week I revamped all of my websites. Usually, I work about 3-5 hours a week. Last week I worked at least 20 hours (I know, everyone who has ever had a full time job is very impressed right now). I looked through 5,000 photos or so and dorked around with about 500 fonts. It was busy but a lot of fun. I love the creative side of web publishing but I just don't take the time as often as I should. I haven't updated my sites in a few years - for some of my sites I haven't made any major changes since 2001 - and the people in my photos were started to look kind of 90s. Change is good and I'm pleased with the results.


Doing all of that reminded me of the first website I created (on some awful free site with some huge subdomain name like myfreemerchantstoreaccount.com). The very first site I created had a food theme and I used this animated salad (which I was actually able to find in about 3 seconds on animationfactory.com - be thankful that it isn't actually animated - after about four tosses it gives me a headache).

I quickly ditched the clip art and went with some nice photographs (and switched to my own domain name) before I went live, but I think it's kind of funny that I can feel a bit of nostalgia for something that happened in 2001. Those first stumblings were a nice start for my little business. I had no idea I could just create my own job. Except that I sort of did. But, you can hope for things and not be sure if those hopes are realistic. It's good to have things in life that work out and catch you by surprise. Like the fact that I actually wrote something today.
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