via GIPHY Welp. I ended up spending a lot more time working on the home page refresh than I had intended, but it’s done1. It’s been a very long time since I tinkered with Cascading Style Sheets. Sure I could have purchased a template and made my life easier, but dammit, I did not want…
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Please Stand By
via GIPHY I mentioned earlier that I was working on a refresh of my home page to spiffy it up for visitors and that I thought doing the coding myself was a great idea since I’ve also been itching to refresh and update my web development skills. So it’s taken a bit longer than I…
Self-Assignment: Self-Portrait
(Cross-post from Fresh Pixels) Now that I’m settled in Raleigh I decided it was time to unbox my light stands and flash units and start practicing portrait photography. Like all great artists *cough* I decided to hire myself as a model since I was already here and available. The first set of portraits (black shirt)…
New Year’s Day: The Journey Continues
Well. Fifty-two was quite a year. Before I started writing this post I took a quick peek at the post that I wrote last year. I knew I was headed for change and growth and I was making definite steps toward…well, what it was I wasn’t yet entirely sure. I had found a lot of…
A Year Ago
A year ago, I had my DSLR. A year ago, I had my tripod to hold my camera. A year ago, I had my nice external flash units. A year ago, I had fully-charged batteries for the camera and flash units. A year ago, I had my light stands and diffuser umbrella. A year ago,…
Happy I Don’t Need A Man To Complete Me Day!
I kid! Sort of. I spent a lot of years feeling like a failure for not finding a lasting connection to someone where we complement each other. There have been lots of misses, but no real hits to speak of. And I’m (now) okay with that. First I needed to go through the difficult journey…
The Raleigh World: One Month In
Today marks one month since Dos Gatos Locos and I rolled into Raleigh and began making a new home here. As with the day we arrived, today’s weather is warm-ish and rainy (thank goodness it’s light showers and not nearly the gully washer that greeted us). We are settling into life in North Carolina: the…
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In addition to being the one month anniversary of my leaving the Bay Area, Wednesday would also have been my mother’s birthday. Sort of a strange set of baggage I’ve got there. And given the cargo of those Relo Cubes, I figuratively and literally carried much of that baggage across the country, some of it…
And It’s Only Tuesday
The assimilation continues apace. ✅ Obtain library card ✅ Replace temporary driver’s license with permanent one ✅ Get car registered No resting on my laurels, though: I still have plenty to keep me busy this week!
Turning Life Off And On Again
I’m caught between wanting to establish a routine and needing to power down and reboot. The routine is important for me and for the cats, so I can establish good habits, and so we all know what to expect from our day. For example, Charlie EXPECTS to be fed around 6:00 a.m. and I EXPECT…