I Rock

Woo-hoo, guys: today rocked! Well, the day was just kinda here; I rocked - I rocked today.

I got the new template up on Weird Ink, got all of the dishes washed, made burritos for dinner, lined-up a ride to pay bills tomorrow, got paid, and still managed to get out a few posts on almost all of the blogs! And I still managed to get a quick nap in and I'm really not even that tired!

I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about this redesign! I'm as excited over this as I was when I first set-up the site! The only thing that killed the enthusiasm was the constant work without results - almost 100% of which was due to the incompetence of my hosting company and their system(s). And even though I am still intent on changing hosts yet again this summer (hopefully, that will be our new, and final, home!), I am not going to wait until then to get this stuff out to you.

You may have noticed fewer sponsored posts lately. That is partly because I am really upset with how so many of those programs have handled things lately and I have been drafting a post discussing exactly that for several weeks now. It is going to really upset some of the programs and their owners, but I just don't care by this point; most of them have managed to really upset me several times over, rip me off, make me out to be a fool and liar, and worse. I have not stopped doing sponsored posts, I am just really looking into certain aspects of the whole concept and trying to get my thoughts together on the matter.

Besides, I have been extremely busy writing, editing, designing, and more, so I just haven't had as much time as I did before. Having put-off redesigning the blogs for as long as I did, I was so uber-pleased with the results that it reinvigorated my interest in everything online. Except dating. The only reason you aren't seeing more of it immediately is because I screwed that up the first go-round, so I'm doing it differently this time.

The first time, I started releasing/publishing whatever got finished because I got tired of telling y'all what I was working on - it started sounding like a bunch of lies and excuses - I just wanted y'all to have something to check out while I finished the rest of it. But, once it was out there, I got caught-up in maintaining and updating the live stuff - making it work, making it work better, making it look better, tying it to previously-published content, etc. - and slowed down (almost completely stopped) working on new stuff. When the new stuff was ready for publication, it was nowhere near as good as it should have been because I had too much going on to focus and do it right.

This time, I am sitting on everything until it's all ready to go.

Not like everything; I mean that I am not releasing anymore Chill stuff until the content I am currently working on is completely done, for example - as opposed to publishing what I already have and forgetting to link it up properly when the rest of it is finished (like I did before) and etc.

IOW, you're just gonna have to wait.

This goes on down the line: the splash page for the site is ready to go and it looks so much better than what's up right now (and I am champing at the bit to show it off!), but I'm not going to do it because almost all the pages it leads to are unfinished, so what's the point? New visitors will see this great-looking splash page and follow the links through to all the shitty, dead-linked pages hanging now, and never come back.

So, I get all excited about getting it done and break my neck working on it all day, then force myself to stop just long enough to post a few entries here and there, then I get anxious to get back to it, etc., and I am trying my very best not to burn myself out. So it's kind of worrisome, but also a lot of fun - and it hasn't been fun in over a year!

Anyway, since I got so much done today, I can afford to take some time off and enjoy the comics I got in last week, which means reviews tomorrow and Friday. The weekend will probably be soft so I can work on the site, but don't take that for granted; who knows what will crop-up between now and then?

It's supposed to be in the 70s tomorrow, so I hope you're all going to be as warm and toasty as I am, and that all your days be bright...

© C Harris Lynn, 2008