I've worked on multiple web apps professionally, even now, and volunteer in a non-profit's website working group -- yet my own website? https://www.ixod.org/home/mark/ -- yeah, I suck at pretty self-promotion!
Now, that was reassuring, thanks.
Hmmm...
It may just be a personality thing? Some folks like to design things, my sisterinlaw and brother are designers. I've little patience for it. I didn't design my journal page on DW - I just grabbed a free, easy to read template, with a nice color scheme and stuck with it. There's no bells and whistles involved. And my word press site? Same.
I'm that way about my apartment as well - I'm beyond minimalist. I have a few things, but not much. And I refuse to spend money on decor.
The whole marketing, branding, design, and promotional bit has always been lost on me. I'm an artist, and artistic, but designer not so much.
I also wonder at what point the pandemic becomes not a lot worse than it's going to be long-term anyway. Clearly not yet but, still, eventually I do start want to start living again, and waiting even longer will come with diminishing returns.
I'm clearly struggling with the whole thing. My cousin, who is fully vaccinated - since March no less, just contracted COVID. He posted about it on FB. Apparently he'd gone to a poker bowl tournament last weekend and picked up his daughter from the airport. They are both in quarantine now. My guess is the poker bowl. (I keep having cousins come down with this thing. And I had something very similar to it in November of 2019, I do not want that again. Took six months to get past whatever it was - and it may have been COVID for all I know.)
The truth is - it's not going away, and we'll probably have to have booster shots for COVID much like Flu shots once a year to keep it at bay.
Sooner or later, I've got to go back to doing things outside of working, writing, walking about my neighborhood, running errands, doctors appointments, and stuff at home.
Wales wants to see SIX really badly now. (My fault, she'd not heard of it until I said I wanted to see it.) More than she wants to hang out in a park. Can't say I blame her. But I'd rather start with the park and gradually move to the crowded Broadway theater experience with people onstage spitting as they are singing.
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Now, that was reassuring, thanks.
Hmmm...
It may just be a personality thing? Some folks like to design things, my sisterinlaw and brother are designers. I've little patience for it. I didn't design my journal page on DW - I just grabbed a free, easy to read template, with a nice color scheme and stuck with it. There's no bells and whistles involved. And my word press site? Same.
I'm that way about my apartment as well - I'm beyond minimalist. I have a few things, but not much. And I refuse to spend money on decor.
The whole marketing, branding, design, and promotional bit has always been lost on me. I'm an artist, and artistic, but designer not so much.
I also wonder at what point the pandemic becomes not a lot worse than it's going to be long-term anyway. Clearly not yet but, still, eventually I do start want to start living again, and waiting even longer will come with diminishing returns.
I'm clearly struggling with the whole thing. My cousin, who is fully vaccinated - since March no less, just contracted COVID. He posted about it on FB. Apparently he'd gone to a poker bowl tournament last weekend and picked up his daughter from the airport. They are both in quarantine now. My guess is the poker bowl. (I keep having cousins come down with this thing. And I had something very similar to it in November of 2019, I do not want that again. Took six months to get past whatever it was - and it may have been COVID for all I know.)
The truth is - it's not going away, and we'll probably have to have booster shots for COVID much like Flu shots once a year to keep it at bay.
Sooner or later, I've got to go back to doing things outside of working, writing, walking about my neighborhood, running errands, doctors appointments, and stuff at home.
Wales wants to see SIX really badly now. (My fault, she'd not heard of it until I said I wanted to see it.) More than she wants to hang out in a park. Can't say I blame her. But I'd rather start with the park and gradually move to the crowded Broadway theater experience with people onstage spitting as they are singing.