This is my first post to this blog in over a year. Maybe even two years. I’ve been putting it off and putting it off, telling myself that I would make my own WordPress theme and really have something that I liked. This requires knowing CSS and some PHP, which I actually watched and read tutorials on and got some idea of how they work. (So don’t think I create obstacles just to avoid things. I create obstacles to have things to do.) So I learned some stuff, and yet still “never had time” to fix up this blog.
Finally I had the motivation to do it. Of course this motivation, as are most things in my life, was external. I took a class this spring called “Advertising on the Internet,” and one of the assignments was (is, due today at noon) to make a blog. Well wasn’t just so excited on the first day of class to know I’d have an excuse to work on this thing and get this ball of oil rolling again. And of course, I waited until last night to find a theme. All I really have to do is pick one, personalize it, add a pic and three 500 word posts, and what did I do? Did i make obstacles? You betcha. I spent all night getting the original theme, which you can see in demo form here:

http://themes.barleyhut.com/index.php?wptheme=Hunsecker

to make it look like the site you’re on now. And for what? So I could have that cool transparent header. That’s why. And after 8 hours of tinkering, I finally got it to look the way I want. Now if it looks the way I want on Firefox, it looks kinda crappy on IE, and I’m guessing it won’t work at all on any resolution lower than the one I modded it on. But it looks freaking awesome.

And now all I have left is writing three posts. Of course, this could have been started at 5 a.m., but I spent that time writing a tirad on individualism on my “About Me” page. Maybe one of these days I’ll actually spend all this hard work on what needs to be done and not on what I think needs to be done to get started. I doubt it.

Two more to go.

And it’s due in 2 and a half hours.

And I’m writing this at work, between calls.

Great start, right?

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