Blogging and Final Fantasy.

Wow it's been a long time since I have posted to this blog, I had all my Google accounts all messed up and confused with one another. I have a couple Gmail accounts and the accounts and email user names that they went too were all messed up, but I got it all figured out I hope! I am not going to make a long post tonight because I want to chill out and get me some Final Fantasy in on the PSP. I am playing the 20th Anniversary release and just love the game, although I admit I have to check into the Bradygames strategy guide a lot to figure out were I need to go next and what treasures I have found already. I really don't know what I would do if not for the guide, I don't like to cheat in my games but I need to check the walkthroughs to see what to do next in some of them and Final Fantasy is one of them. Anyway I am going to wrap this up and get to the gaming!

It's getting nice outside!

Oh my god it was so nice outside these past few days that I just had to get out of the house. I did a little hauling of scrap metal for a friend to the scrap yard because he don't have a truck. This will also be a little extra cash for me now and then because I will be doing it more for him. Anyway it was so nice to get out and be comfortable and not freezing my ass off. I can't wait until this winter is over, I have had a very rough winter this year. I burn wood to heat my house and I was burning a face cord a week at $53.00 a cord. I know that that is a little expensive but when I don't cut enough wood to last me the winter I have to buy it, and well this wood was very good wood. Nice and seasond dry red oak, split just right to handle with one hand, in the past I have had people try to sell me green wood as the winter went on and had trouble finding good wood. So when I found this wood I paid the price and had good wood all winter. But this year will be different, I have a new chain saw and I am gonna get on the ball this year and get me about 20 cords for next year thats my goal. And with the weather getting nice I have to make me a spot for my garden, get me some baby pine trees to plant for a wind break, put a fence up around my property so my dog's and other critters wont wander into the road and get me a couple chickens and a rooster to start my little farm I have been wanting. I can feel the winter cabin fever just slippin away, oh yeah come on Spring!

A couple short term goals.

I updated my profile tonight and made some other changes to my blog as well. I also added a link to my Wordpress blog, I have 3 active blogs at the moment. I have been really getting into the blog thing lately, and as I have posted before doing this is helping me get my web design future into perspective. I think that having an online presence is getting me in the mindset to move forward with my web design. I am not quite sure where I want to go with it but doing these blogs has helped me see a lot that I have not seen before. I think that I need to learn more about writing so I can get my thoughts and ideas across in a more efficient manner. When I do a post I usually write it up and then read it and just delete it a couple times before I come up with something that I think gets the idea out that I want to get across. And I also need to get designing more graphics and logos, for my blogs. I think that an image here and there helps the reader grasp better what you are trying to put out to them. I am a very graphically orientated person and I think that most people are, given the popularity of photos and videos on the web today. Take the site YouTube, I can watch a well put together video and really learn a lot more than if I had just read a page about the same thing and I think most people can relate to this as well. So I am nearing my goal and getting my thoughts together to be at a level that I was at a few years ago when I was going to school to learn all that I know about web and graphic design. My current project is designing a header image for my Wordpress blog, and then I will do one for this blog as well, yeah that's it I now have a goal for the next week or so to design 2 header images for my blogs.

One step at a time.

I have decided to take my web design "One step at a time" and that means that I am not going to beat myself up over not doing anything for a day or so with web design. I have been learning to mess with this blog and tweak with the template and I think that is ok for now. I also have installed Dreamweaver 8 on my Ubuntu linux system via WINE "Wine is not an Emulator". What this means is that I can run Windows applications in my Linux system environment. If you would like more info about WINE you can visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) or http://www.winehq.org/ to get an idea of what it's about. I learned how to code web pages using notepad, then I learned to use Dreamweaver UD4. Using Dreamweaver really lets you take web design to a new level. You can code in a code only mode, or use the design mode and just build a web site by using the WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) mode kind of like the blogger interface or use both together which is what I like to do. Anyway now that I have this installed on my linux system I can really get more done because I use linux for my main Operating system and now I can just stay in linux and not have to "reboot" into my WindowsXP system, which is what I have wanted to do for a couple years now. So now I can develop my web pages using Dreamweaver 8 while I am using linux so I think that I will be inclined to get more done because I wont have to stop everything and "reboot" to WinXP. So things are looking up as far as my web design because I am taking it "One step at a time". Below is a screenshot of Dreamweaver 8 on my Ubuntu linux desktop.