Merry Christmas!

Another funny for today. I’m working to start updating my blog more frequently. The additional writing helps me keep the words moving.

This picture just tickled my funny bone, though my youngest just rolled his eyes. He got his sense of humor from me, but sometimes not so much.

Then there is this. I love Airplane.

Laterness

My daughter has started doing commissions on Instagram. I asked her to redo the girl at the top of the page to look more like an elf. Since my daughter specializes in anime type drawings, it’ll probably end up with bigger eyes and crazy hair as well. We’ll see. I told her I’d give her the same $5 I’m thinking I’d have to pay on Fiverr. Since that’s more than she has been charging, she jumped at it.

Christmas is entirely too close. We are doing a show at church next Sunday, and I do not feel prepared right now. I guess we will see how Saturday’s dress rehearsal goes.

My step son’s mother died Tuesday. I feel so bad. He is only 21 and has 2 younger brothers. One is only a year older than my youngest. My step son had fought with his mom a lot 2 (almost 3) years ago and was working on fixing his relationship with her. He’s feeling bad that they hadn’t finished fixing it when she died.

I have a headache tonight even though I took ibuprofen. I’m not going to stay online long tonight. I’m drinking water and crocheting to see if I can get rid of the headache. I might look at a massage at the rate things are going. Before I left my job, I received a gift certificate that would get me 3 massages. After the first one, my muscles ached for about 3 days, but then most of the tension in my neck was gone. I didn’t even realize that was possible the muscles had been knotted so long lol

Anyway, I’m going to crochet and try to see if I can get rid of the headache.

Lateness and g’night

I subscribe to a newsletter from Popular Information. From everything I can tell, he’s apolitical, which I like, since I’m a political independent. I like how Judd and his team investigate corporations, their political donations, their corporate messaging and comparing it to everything reported in SEC filings.

For example, corporations promised not to donate to congress people who endorsed and even encouraged the insurrection and treason on January 6th, 2021. There are a number of them who have started donating to these people again. They think no one is paying attention.

This time, he’s addressing the inflation, and the stories that we’ve been hearing that it’s because of Biden’s infrastructure plan that hasn’t even taken effect yet, and using it as a reason not to endorse the build back better program.

That’s not the real reason that prices are going up.

Yeah, that’s not much of a surprise. They’re squeezing at both ends to give themselves record profits.

Anyway, just a note tonight. I’ve got a bunch of work to do since I spent the day doing not much other than watching Doctor Who and knitting lol.

Laterness and g’nite.

I’m just going to geek out here for a minute or two. I have been doing a refresher on HTML and learning CSS since I never really got into it when I was designing sites in the early 2000’s. I think CSS had really just started coming on the scene when I stopped with the full time design in 2003.

I started learning more about CSS tonight and I gotta say I’m excited. All these things I used to have to do with nesting tables can be done more easily and cleanly with CSS than it could with tables. I’m having a lot of fun playing with the code and the colors in the text.

I think there will probably be a redesign of this site for the first time in at least 13 years. I don’t think I’ve touched it much in that time. The only thing I need to work on is redesigning the WordPress theme I’m using to accommodate what I want to do. We shall see what happens. I just need to download a graphics program – maybe GIMP if it’s still available. I’ll have to do some looking. The design is the most fun part 🙂

Anyway, it’s getting late. I still need to do some Duolingo and then read to relax before bed. The kids bus gets here early in the morning.

Laterness and g’nite.

I’ve owned this domain a long time. It was the first one I bought for myself when I started in web development in the early 2000’s. I bought a second domain in 2002 or 2003 (I’d have to look at WHOIS to remember when, but I’m leaning toward when I was making and selling candles). It went from there to a website talking about my web design. Since then it has been through many iterations, and now is a blog where I can just post my crafting stuff. I post finished projects and ones that I’m working on. Not that I posted to that much in the last almost 2 years as well.

If you let it, life will derail your plans.

I need to find a new domain for my web content writing, and WordPress work. I know I can do this, but I let my doubts affect my self confidence. I will probably focus on a few Udemy courses, while I am job hunting. That way I’m not just sitting idle. That’s the best way to get anxiety.

The real problem with multiple domains is checking them all every day lol. I currently have unlimited hosting, though I’m not entirely crazy about GoDaddy since they just added that we have to pay for our email hosting as well.

I hate looking for new domains. The longer it goes, the more difficult it is to find what I want LOL. I know there are several different sites that’ll help with that. I think I should start there.

Laterness

On Friday I decided to start doing some real WordPress training instead of just the dabbling that I’ve done over the years since I started this blog.

I’m kinda excited. I haven’t done any major programming since I left my web design/programmer job in 2003.

My plan is to start freelancing so I can work from home. I want to spend more time being able to do what I want.

I want to be able to start traveling more. I keep seeing posts from my cousin on Facebook and I want that. I want to be able to see things I haven’t in a long time.

I haven’t been to Washington, DC since I moved away in 1998. I haven’t been to parts of North Carolina and Myrtle Beach since 1999 right after Hurricane Floyd passed through.

I miss the coding anyway, so it’ll be fun to learn.

Lateness and g’night

https://www.businessinsider.com/tired-trucker-explains-driver-shortage-cant-support-families-low-pay-2021-11

So, I have a unique perspective on the so called driver shortage since until Friday 11/12 I was working in supply chain. I worked with corporate transportation and carriers to get materials to the place I worked for.

I can remember talking to one logistics company saying that routes out of Nashville were difficult – not because they couldn’t find carriers, but because the carriers didn’t want to take a route where they would have to return empty. They lose money that way.

The same rep from the logistics company would complain that the company o worked for wouldn’t offer enough for some routes. They would lose money if they took the route for what was offered.

It seems like maybe there isn’t so much a driver shortage as a shortage of companies willing to pay a decent rate to the driver’s delivering their product.

*Edit: I found this as well.

I haven’t been around in a long time. I was talking to my youngest about the websites I have, and I was surprised at how long it has been since I posted.

Work has been crazy. Even crazier with supply chain disruptions. So I’m tired when I get home.

I also went through a phase of depression. Then the craziness in January just blew my mind. I do have my opinions on it, but it’s rather late to share. Instead, I have a joke.

That’s all for today. Laterness.

Tonight I have this silly song stuck in my head. It’s one that I first heard when I was living in Branson. A good friend had me listen to it one day at work. I’m going to paste the YouTube link below for tonight. I’ll try to figure out how to embed it later. It’s harder from my phone.

I really miss the friend who showed this song to me. He had named his dog after a line in the song. She was Liddle Lambsied Ivy, or Ivy for short.

He was one of my closest friends. He died in 2006. I miss talking to him and asking his advice even 14 years later. I miss talking to his wife too. Since he died, she and I have fallen out of touch.

I think the song is in my head tonight to remind me that I’m not stuck in a job that makes me unhappy. There are things I can do to change my life even now.

I miss the web development work I did back in Branson. I even miss the writing I was doing 10 years ago. I just haven’t been very creative lately.

It might be time for me to start looking at my options instead of letting myself just slide by with the minimum like I’m doing right now.

Starting tomorrow, I’m going to make some changes in how I do things. I’m more worried about money than I was back then, but I can work around that and still be happy.