I Can Has Blog Now?
How is it May? I look out a nearby window and I can see faint sunlight piercing through thin clouds. With the length of winter, it is a surprise that summer is so close at hand. I've begun to do simple things without noticing: I've kicked off the heavy blankets on my bed. I'm running the fan on high. I'm wearing short sleeves. I've even considered shorts.
I apologize for the whiteness of my skin. It does, however, make for a good marker for pilots to fly at night by.
I attribute most of the "summer sneaking up on me" to a laden work schedule, freelance work outside of my regular job, attempting to spend more quality time with my family (as a result) and many smaller personal matters that have arisen such as a sister-in-law leaving on an 18-month stay in Buenos Aries and my pregnant wife expecting delivery in just a few weeks.
The Summer Tourism Guide comes as a highlight to my work life. I spent about three weeks developing its website, www.SeeSouthwestWA.com, using nothing but standards compliance web coding (yes, I do all my coding by hand; even this page you're reading was designed by me). The tourism guide website was my first exploration in total standards compliance, which is a designer term for using a code structure that is completely accessible for all users, including the blind or disabled. The entirety of a website is essentially text, and then when applied with a stylesheet, creates a rich and vibrant design. I hope this is something I achieved. Regardless, I am extremely proud of the work put into it and the end result that is displayed on the screen.
Day-in and day-out I find myself regretting putting up the Opinions section for our paper online. I inadvertently end up reading some of what is on that page and almost always sad that I did. It is what it says it is: opinions. A quote my father always said to me comes to mind: "Opinions are like ***holes. Everyone has one and they all stink." He also always said "It's always morning somewhere," when greeting someone in the afternoon with a "good morning," but that has little relevance in this situation.
Assistant Editor Brian Mittge and I had a conversation a few weeks ago as we prepared our lunches in the lunchroom. Some changes were being made to our contributing writers roster for the Commentary section. He asked me my opinion of a few of the current writers and a look of displeasure swept across my face. Needless to say, it was easily readable. I ended up saying how I felt our Commentary writers were "old" and didn't reflect many of my opinions. He told me that we would be hiring another "old" writer, Bill Moeller, who would be running on Wednesdays. I believe I cringed.
I was surprised to read Moeller's first commentary. And equally surprised to read his second, believing the first was a fluke. They're good. They're really good. My apologizes to Brian and Paul, who were my two favorite contributing writers before, but Bill has wowed me and made a fan of his column.
I would urge everyone reading to take a look for yourself.
I apologize for the whiteness of my skin. It does, however, make for a good marker for pilots to fly at night by.
I attribute most of the "summer sneaking up on me" to a laden work schedule, freelance work outside of my regular job, attempting to spend more quality time with my family (as a result) and many smaller personal matters that have arisen such as a sister-in-law leaving on an 18-month stay in Buenos Aries and my pregnant wife expecting delivery in just a few weeks.
The Summer Tourism Guide comes as a highlight to my work life. I spent about three weeks developing its website, www.SeeSouthwestWA.com, using nothing but standards compliance web coding (yes, I do all my coding by hand; even this page you're reading was designed by me). The tourism guide website was my first exploration in total standards compliance, which is a designer term for using a code structure that is completely accessible for all users, including the blind or disabled. The entirety of a website is essentially text, and then when applied with a stylesheet, creates a rich and vibrant design. I hope this is something I achieved. Regardless, I am extremely proud of the work put into it and the end result that is displayed on the screen.
Day-in and day-out I find myself regretting putting up the Opinions section for our paper online. I inadvertently end up reading some of what is on that page and almost always sad that I did. It is what it says it is: opinions. A quote my father always said to me comes to mind: "Opinions are like ***holes. Everyone has one and they all stink." He also always said "It's always morning somewhere," when greeting someone in the afternoon with a "good morning," but that has little relevance in this situation.
Assistant Editor Brian Mittge and I had a conversation a few weeks ago as we prepared our lunches in the lunchroom. Some changes were being made to our contributing writers roster for the Commentary section. He asked me my opinion of a few of the current writers and a look of displeasure swept across my face. Needless to say, it was easily readable. I ended up saying how I felt our Commentary writers were "old" and didn't reflect many of my opinions. He told me that we would be hiring another "old" writer, Bill Moeller, who would be running on Wednesdays. I believe I cringed.
I was surprised to read Moeller's first commentary. And equally surprised to read his second, believing the first was a fluke. They're good. They're really good. My apologizes to Brian and Paul, who were my two favorite contributing writers before, but Bill has wowed me and made a fan of his column.
I would urge everyone reading to take a look for yourself.
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3:12 PM
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