Little by little, the smallest bedroom in our house has been transformed into my office. Well, it was technically my office before, but a little paint and planning where shelves and artwork will go makes it suddenly feel like... like what I've not had for many years.
A room of my own.
Cue the melancholy of Virginia Woolf.
No melancholy for me today, though. The whole-house beige (wall AND ceiling color) has received a smack in the face. When we were house-hunting, we saw some pretty ugly room colors and carpet, so we lucked out in a way by buying a place that was all neutral. I just wasn't aware that neutral could really start to irritate me as much as it did!
So that's two rooms down and many more to go. We're leaving the neutral carpets in place for now since they're all still new (someone half-flipped the house before we bought it... there's still a ton of work that we've been doing).
Enough boring house stuff already! Why the hell haven't I updated my site in a long time or put up that new forum? Well, it's not because I haven't been thinking about it. Procrastination aside, here's what's going on.
- Forum. I'm undecided about which open source forum to go with, as well as being nervous about the maintenance and moderation of whichever one I choose. Spammers overtook the last iteration and I was not very good about updating and administrating it. Without the help of a few dedicated people, it would have died long before I pulled the plug.
- The Geek Test.The update intimidates me. Every time I try to tackle it, the test threatens to grow past 1,000 questions. I have well over that many suggestions that people have emailed me over the years, not including duplicates. Wow, right?
- Site design.I would love to allow site visitors to select which design they'd like to use from a few themes. I first learned about this possibility in 2005 when I was working in SEO and my supervisor introduced me to csszengarden.com. Wouldn't that be hella sweet? I also want to revamp this blog design.
- Site content.I've been overwhelmed at work (the pennies from the wee bits of advertising on innergeek.us are nice, but hardly pay the bills), where I've morphed into the Marketing Editor with a lot of writing and editing responsibilities. For a bit, I was also babysitting the website by myself... and it was too much for me to come home and want to think about looking at html in the evening. But I've had some good experience with writing on a daily basis for a lot of different types of things, and I look forward to ramping up content on innergeek.
- Personal stuff.I've had more on my plate lately, but I'm trying to deal with it better. I can't ignore it, because it keeps running as a background process and rears its ugly head sometimes when I least expect it. How's that for vague? Maybe someday I'll want to talk about it online. Or maybe I'll write some angsty, thinly veiled autobiographical fiction someday. I feel better about everything today, and I will happily attribute that to my current listening selection: Dr. Demento's 20th Anniversary Collection. Existential Blues by Tom "T-Bone" Stankus will always be close to my heart for various reasons.
For now, the easiest goal for me is to blog shorter and blog more. Thanks to everyone who reads my ramblings, emails me and occasionally leaves comments. It's motivating and also makes me feel special (and not in a totally alienated "special" way).
