Tagged webdev
i find myself wishing i had made this website ages ago, so that it would already be the thing i want it to be without having to put in the effort to get it there.
i'm about to finish another book and wishing i had a place to log book reviews (other than goodreads). i have this same inclination every time i play a video game and want to write a few thoughts about it. truly it makes me wish i had an easier way to journal that didn't require me to bust out my laptop every time i want to post something.
but on the other hand, maybe i just need to keep my laptop close at hand. i can type faster than i can write, after all.
overall, i'm just not sure what i want this site to be. i've got a blog to journal in, but this blog structure isn't super conducive to anything other than posts. if i want an actual static page, it's just not that simple. i could have this be one wing of a bigger website? maybe i will get to that point some day.
my indecisiveness is causing me to lose sleep. i need to just accept what i've got and not push the limits because i don't have the time.
this weekend has been a bit hectic, my wife was sick so i had to take care of the kids largely by myself for the past four days, taking a couple of days off work in the process. that's okay though, i had been thinking about how i wanted a 3 day weekend, and i got one! i just wish the circumstances hadn't involved a family member being 70% bedridden for 3 days. anyway. i love those little babies. babies are great. nobody ever tells you how cool babies are.
other notes: i'm almost done reading the last of the cosmere novels (by brandon sanderson) and i need to figure out what to read next. i'm about halfway done with my next leather project! that'll be up on the gallery in like. a week or so. this upcoming week is going to be very busy, not least of which because we've got a baby shower to attend next weekend, and my wife needs to finish a quilt and mobile as gifts for our friends. let's cross our figures and hope the little ones are agreeable this week.
-grady c
i'll likely never be free of all of my backlogs. one of the "joys"
of homeownership is that there's always something you're putting off until next week, next month, next year, ad infinitum. my steam "gaming backlog" as they call it is over a hundred games long. and my personal todo lists of movies to watch, books to read, and so forth are nigh insurmountable.
i've been screwing around with this website for the past couple of weeks, call it my latest fixation. getting the layout right, learning the smallest amount of liquid to enable a dynamic project gallery, and filling out that gallery with posts for each of my leathercrafting projects to date. i've been averaging about one a month, it seems like? but i really ought to try getting those numbers up. but that requires putting the web dev to the side, and i'm not quite satisfied with it yet. maybe i just need to table some things as a "roadmap" like i saw some other folks on the indie web doing.
the whole purpose of making this site was to give myself somewhere to blog, but here i am almost a month later with only four posts. most days i get between 0 and 60 minutes to work on this site, and i've spent most of it lately just trying to get some project posts filled out. surely that could have waited? alas, my brain only now provided me with an alternative course of action, now that the aforementioned backlog has been cleared.
on another note, what does it say about me that, at this point, half of my blog's posts will have parentheticals in the titles? probably not anything particularly inspiring.
i don't know how many years ago it was at this point, but once upon a time, my new year's resolution was to post more. i made that statement on cohost of all places, if that tells you anything. and here i am at least 2 years later and still floundering. but i'm doing better, i think? perhaps? i'm more invested in this because it's more mine. i have a motivation to put things here because it's something that has my name on it. i think that's enough to make a difference.
anyway, here it is, another post and the third this month. a new record! talk to you again soon.
-grady c
this isn't actually a test post. more of an acknowledgement that i've been screwing around a lot lately with my website's layout instead of a) posting anything or b) doing anything that i could post.
i did manage to fix that a bit today, though. i learned how not to make a leather moccasin for a baby. i ended up producing an object that resembles a shoe, but would not really be useful or wearable as one.
this weekend was sorely needed, last week at work dragged on far longer than it should have, and it just made me miserable by the end of it. i dread waking up tomorrow because it means going back. i don't exactly hate my job, i don't even dislike it!! but it would go a long way towards me truly enjoying it if i was doing something fun, or exciting, or challenging on a regular basis, and i'm mostly not. tomorrow, for example, i have six one-hour meetings back to back. outside of that i will likely be generating more documentation. lovely! 🤮
back to this weekend: yesterday i made an attempt at finding a new d&d group to play with, and it was sadly unsuccessful. the gm i was going to play with and i didn't really click, and so i don't plan to return to participate in his campaign. alas, and my prayers go out to the poor soul who i helped build their character sheet. i wish them the best of luck, but i cannot and will not help somebody gm better. i have neither the patience nor inclination to step on toes when i could dance better solo. guess i go back to rotating my own blorbos.
thankfully yesterday wasn't a total bust. we took the kids to the library where they had an amazing time at the little toddler play area. today was largely full of relaxing, as well as the aforementioned creation of a not-quite-shoe-shaped object. dinner was wonderful greek quinoa and rice bowls with falafel, and it was really came together. delish.
that's about it for my weekend. maybe this week i'll find the time to figure out how to shoehorn a project gallery into this blog template. or maybe i'll give up and just use the minifeeds as-is, we shall see. signing off for now.
i am yet again staying up late to goober on the computer. this time it's to post on this silly little website of mine. not the most noble of causes, and i'm likely to regret it when the kids inevitably wake up at 5am again, but alas. i wanted to at least get a second post on here for the inaugural launch of my new site design. it's not much, but i'm proud of it so far.
reminder that i need to change the date format, this is confusing me fr.
i'll add a credits page at some point, but for now:
- credits to sadgrl.online for the layout
- katebagenzo.neocities.org for strawberry starter
- w3 schools and stack overflow for css help
- and the header image is from ~somewhere~, we may never know
-grady c
i don't know what idea i had in my mind that it would be easy to pick web design back up.
partially it's my fault for picking a template based on functionality and not appearance, but i still get the impression that just don't know what i'm doing anymore.
either way, i'll get this thing under control at some point. for the time being, please accept the "under construction" sign on the homepage as a concession of defeat.
we've got my mother-in-law in town this weekend to help out with the kids. we're heading to a concert and having a nice dinner alone, something we've not needed desperately, but is still very welcome.
it's only a handful of weeks left until the twins turn one. they're starting to walk (albeit with much assistance) and i haven't shed a tear over it yet, but i definitely am going to.
the illness that has plagued our household (aka The Crudâ„¢) has finally left our domicile, and none too soon. good riddance!! maybe now i can finally get back to games and hobbies and whatnot. of course, i do need to order some supplies before i get my next project(s) started in earnest, but nbd.
anyway, i'll call that a decent first post for this blog. more tk tk
-grady c
