I am an excessive person, it is my nature. With most things in my life, I go through phases of obsessive focus. I need everything to fit (assuming I care one way or the other). If something won’t fit, I can’t find rest until it will. This brings me around to my point: an obsessive-compulsive personality can be hell to a Blog. Especially a Blog severely lacking focus. So, as with most similar problems, the answer is deconstruction. Rip out everything that doesn’t keep the heart pumping. Maybe my analogies could use some work too.
If you’re looking for stuff that’s missing, don’t worry, I will restore some elements (my blogroll in particular) once I figure out a user interface I can live with.
What do you think so far?
I recently got the itch to renew a never-ending project that will keep me up nights and threaten to steal my focus from money-making endeavors; therefore there is a somewhat updated look here at DTH as well as a completely different publishing platform… Don’t get me wrong, I love Expression Engine. I just couldn’t get over the numerous blogging features and addons that WordPress has over EE. For certain projects I would definitely pick EE over WordPress just as I would even choose Joomla over both for many applications. Anyway, recently I’ve developed a few web sites professionally using WP and I think that as far as blogging software is concerned, it is pretty hard to beat.
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It was a Thursday afternoon, and I had just checked in to a hotel room in Truckee, CA. I had driven an hour or so from Colfax to attend a wedding and visit my parents who were flying in from Idaho later that night. The girl at the front desk had looked at me with some worry when I walked in with my full military rucksack complete with a machete strapped to the side, but I didn’t really have any other option. The majority of Team Bersheisse had green lighted a weekend trip to begin the following night, and it would be the last time such a large number of the core would be together. I had forgotten about the wedding, which was scheduled for 3pm on Friday, about 6 hours before I was supposed to be in Sierra City to meet the Team. So, this is how I ended up walking through the doors of a Hampton Inn wearing formal clothing and carrying enough equipment to survive alone in the Sierra Nevada mountains for around a month. (more…)
I like being seated first on a plane for one reason: the anticipation of who will sit next to me as I settle in and begin to watch the procession of passengers march down the isle. I don’t ever analyze the people that aren’t already looking at their tickets to double-check their seat numbers. Like everyone else these people already know exactly where their seats are, and usually have a ways to march before they nervously take out their boarding pass to delay eye contact with their pre-selected neighbor until the last minute. On a flight with unassigned seating, people check their boarding passes anyways; as if a seat number will magically appear, saving them the dreaded decision. Typically people are more prone to favor predestination on airplanes, in which case if they end up becoming acquaintances, friends, or even lovers with their seatmate, it can be blamed on the airline. Personally, I’d rather the person that I’m going to be sitting with for the next 4-6 hours have a choice in the matter, although there is a lot more guesswork involved if you do happen to have an attractive person pre-assigned to you. (more…)
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