Blog Babble

It seems I'm not very good at this blog thing. I don't really like to write much. I never know what to say. The only time I ever really do is when I travel. I keep a journal of all my adventures so I always have a way to remember all those little things I'd otherwise be so likely to forget. It also doesn't help that I don't get to spend nearly as much time as I'd like on here, since work now takes up most of my time. I wish I could still say this was my only work, but it seems that the real world finally caught up me.
At least I still get to have a little fun. My second show of the season is this weekend in Northampton, Mass. I finally get to see Enter the Haggis for the first time in quite a while. It's been a long wait, but they're always worth it. My first show was 2 weekends ago in Schenectady, NY, and it was fairly successful. Hopefully I can soon say the same for this one!

Flickr

I've been scanning some old negatives from California for the last few days and posting them on my Flickr page. Some of the shots are really nice and now I'm debating maybe scanning them at a little better quality and adding a California album here on my website. Looking through all these old shots is making me really want to get out of the snow and go back out to California for another visit.

Website is up and running.

Things have been going good, getting the new site set up. Figuring out all these html, css, and java codes have been confusing for me to figure out, but I think I've finally got the hang of it. For having no clue what I was doing to begin with, I think the site has turned out pretty decent. I'm happy with it anyway. I'm still working on it though. There are still images in need of uploading, Croatia has only been partially uploaded, but at the same time, it's the most put-together gallery on the site at the moment. I've been working on setting up my paypal account to work with the site. It took a couple of days for me to understand what exactly I needed to do, but now I've got it. Unfortunatelym it'll be a pretty slow process, because I need to create individual "add to cart" buttons for each image. Otherwise I don't know how I'd know which image people wanted to purchase. Croatia is the only gallry at the moment with the buttons. Hopefully I can get the rest of the galleries ready soon.

New Website

Early this week I was surprised to find out that my website no longer existed. Apparently my domain name had expired in December and I was never informed by my host company. Needless to say, I went a little crazy when I realized this was happening, and I've since been attempting to create a new site through smugmug. So far it's been a bit of a hassle because I'm not that web savvy and I'm having trouble getting the hang of html codes and css crap. Basically, I don't have a clue what I'm doing, but I'm trying. Somehow I've actually managed to get my page looking somewhat the way I want it. My free trial runs out in 11 days, so I've been working hard to see what I can do. This way I'll know for sure that it's the new website I want. Once it's all figured out and I'm happier with the way it looks, I'll sign up for a new domain name to make it more personalized. Then the only problem is making up some new business cards and figuring out how to direct people to my new site.