To Create

i did a lot of thinking today. thinking when i woke up and rolled out of bed to check websites and social networks. thinking as i walked the dog. thinking as i went to visit christin at work and went to drop off clothes at the goodwill. thinking while i listened to one of my regular podcasts with rainn wilson, you know that guy from the office, who is apparently a weird new age baha'i spiritual guru sort of dude. blech. i'm not sure i ever figured out what i was thinking about today, but i did a lot of it for lack of real conclusions about things. blah.

oh, and i got a new chair for christin.

when i got home, i sat in the shower with the warm water running over me and thought some more about life, direction, happiness, Jesus, the english language and various other things. work. i really want to create for a living. i suppose this means that i need to create things that people would be willing to spend time, money or energy on. similar to this blog, in the sense that i've now got a bit more pressure on myself to try and make this thing worth reading. to come up with content every night and write for more than a few minutes about how my day went. and now i'm filling up paragraphs about 'thinking.' whatever that means.

i don't know. i did some work on my website tonight. i'm re-learning html, because the game has changed and i'm tired of being so behind that i have no idea what i'm doing and my code ends up looking like crap. i'm still using dreamweaver, but i'm writing most of the code by hand. it's just for quick reference, it's just easier this way. i'm learning the old way, by looking at peoples' sources and copying them [which is harder now] in the sense of experimenting with things they did and figuring out how to replicate it.

it was fun to create something.

actually, all i really managed to do was create a basic layout that doesn't even include much real content at all. but my website is designed to be sort of a portal to all of my different media outlets like this blog, my youtube page, my twitter feed and the like. the bulk of what i did was set up feedburner and customize a script with css to make it look nice. i've got it looking the way i want it to now, though once i change the colors i'm sure it'll have to be re-edited. people don't like white on black, bud!

tomorrow i go back to the dentist. i'm tired of talking about my mouth! i feel like i felt when i was vlogging/blogging about my car pretty much non-stop a while back. but yeah. the swelling is down by a lot today, and the stitches are falling out on their own. i don't even know if there are going to be any left for him to remove tomorrow by the time i get out to glen burnie. ;-P but at least he can look at my mouth and tell me if everything is kosher. hopefully it is. also on the table for tomorrow: homework for my new class and community at 8pm. good times.