For example: this new blog layout. Be glad I didn’t leave it in the original green text. Although there’s also the option for amber, and I did love me some amber displays back in the day.
I can’t promise this is going to stick around a while. I’m still not happy with the layout. I want something very minimal and almost completely text focused, but so far my problems with this layout is it’s not indicating when comments exist on a post unless you view each post as an individual, and that’s not fun. Who wants to click on everything to see if there’s a conversation going on?
Ok, it’s entirely possible that the problem is there aren’t any comments, or comments are still broken and you can’t leave one (A friend of mine is having that issue right now — 503 every time I try to comment)
Anyhow, if you’re out there and want to take the time to try commenting and let me know what happens … (This is the good thing about having so many nerdy friends. Someone somewhere will look and know what’s happening).
Additional things that make me happy: still writing.
I’ll tell you a little bit about it, but not much. There’s these two guys, see? Both Gen-X, both have terrible relationships with their families. Basically raised themselves from about the ages of 10 because I did mention they’re Gen-X? Anyhow, they’re both sarcastic, weird, low-level con artists, snarky best friends, and after a run of bad luck (one guy lost his job, got divorced, and inherited a house in the space of like 10 months) they’re roommates.
Oh look. The best friends odd couple situation. How unlike me. And it turns out the house is haunted? You don’t say. Who ever would’ve imagined I’d come up with something like that? Wow.
SO OF COURSE I MADE THE CHARACTERS IN THE SIMS (my mom is probably rolling her eyes and silently telling me to get on with it, because absolutely zero of this is a surprise to her. But to be fair, she’s known me a really long time and I’m actually pretty predictable).
Anyhow… no names yet. One’s tentatively Nate/Nathan, but I dunno. The other is just a question mark, although we’re all getting pretty tired of “dudeman”.
Right. So getting back to it…
Dudeman on the left, “Nate” on the right. The year is roughly 2001. Nate’s got massive gauge holes in his ears, a tattoo on his left forearm and the nape of his neck. He does have an outfit that’s jeans, boots, t-shirt, and flannel shirt tied around his waist, but I haven’t gotten a good screenshot of it yet. Hang on to those last days of Grunge, baby! You can also see that dudeman has sleeves that end in fingerless gloves.
And finally… Dudeman
(Dudeman does have a last name. It’s Brekman. So that’s something at least)
Anyhow… kinda getting to a point where I might need to talk to someone about the writing? I used to have esso to bounce ideas around with, and sometimes just complaining out loud to someone helps get through blocks, and boy am I blocked. Like
I have maybe a 4th of a thing written, but it’s spread out over acts 1 and 2 and there’s huge gaping holes where there’s supposed to be story. This is me indirectly asking if anyone might be interested. Except you, mom. I can’t swear in front of you.