This is my attempt at carving out a tiny part of the internet for myself. I'm not sure why this is something i want to do. I definitely don't know how to make it happen. And i absolutely can not type for shit, so just pretend any and all typos are there for comedic purposes.
I am an ancient primordial being stuffed into a human body and forced to play nice with the local sentient beings. Or i'm just a weird autistic guy struggling to find my place in the world. Or i switch wildly between the two. I'm not sure who i am at the best of times to tell the truth, so maybe this thing is a way for me to figure that out and drag any innocent bystanders along for the ride. I feel like an autocorrect would be a good thing for me to have in this editor, but that's the point isn't it. It's just me and my thoughts. And the previously mentioned innocent bystanders of course. This isn't the first time i've tried to have a website to be honest. I signed up for squarespace a while back, because who hasn't. I'm a photographer that watches photography youtubes, so of course i got told about squarespace almost daily. So i did it, but it seemed like a waste of money for a webiste that nobody was really looking at. It looked good and all, and i liked how i could display my better photos, but waste of money. I also tred to build a website for the local field hockey association a long time ago. Back when i was stuck on the dole they had a program where you'd go and help people out to build skills or just be of some use. The website looked good enough, but i had no idea what i was doing and it turned out obese, i think. Like i didn't link things the right way, and the files i uploaded to it were huge. it took me forever, doing it one or two days a week, but after i left, it had to be redone from scratch. Bit of a waste of time. Of course learning resources weren't as readily available for me then that they are now. So hopefully this site, or page or whatever, doesnt fail quite as much as that one did.
It will come as no shock to any chancing upon this site that i absolutely have no idea how to use html to make a website. CSS and java are right out. So it's gonna be a bit of a learning curve. Bloody steep one at that. Maybe i just keep this little project to myself. My own little secret part of the net to write thoughts down, but then they're not secret, so maybe not that. I would like to understand coding though, always have, so this can just be my crash course in being a semi decent coder. Who knows, stranger things have happened. As Jake said "Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something."
One of my pervasive special interests is photography. This first shot i took in my backyard one summer's day. The spray of the sprinkler in the sun made me have to take it. The second one i took one wet and miserable morning of the local laundromat. The light spilling out getting diffused by the fog caught my eye. The third shot i believe was taken later in the day after the laundromat shot. Getting away from work for a much needed break in the middle of the day.
Now i wonder if there's a way to make it kinda see through and more of a background thing. Like a muted wallpaper thingy. Scratch that, how do i make the background as black as my soul, with light grey text, because black on white is just not great. BRB off to do another learn.
That is so much better. i wonder if i should just leave these edits in, if only for this page, so that when i get stuck, i can track back through my steps. Or better coders than me can stumble onto these silly little musings or questions or whatever and laugh their collective arses off.
A little side note to anyone that stumbles onto this. I'm not crazy. It may look like i am, because there's a lot of talking to nobody, refreshing, and answering questions myself. Thats just the process i use and everyone says to trust the process these days, so just run with it okay. Who knows, this site might be nuked tomorrow. Yes i know i keep saying site, when its just one page, i'm new to this and old at everything else, give me a break.
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