So, I am currently still in a place of lack of job and lack of real motivation to work on stuff. Turning the latter around, especially since I’ve given myself a hard limit on how much I’m allowed to game daily now. Two days running I’ve managed to game less than 3 hours a day (and less than 2 on Team Fortess, my latest big addiction). I still have the friday night unlimited gaming thing, but otherwise, I’m keeping to a limit. With the lack of gaming, I’m actually getting more stuff done (like actually posting here). I’m even managing to get some stuff done around the house.
That said, I’m thinking more about some things. For one, I don’t know what I’m going to do with my webserver space. I hardly use it. This site was intended to be my place to share my writing, my projects, myself. Well, right now I have hardly any writings, my projects are false starts, and I don’t share much of myself here. I do still want to do more and I’m finding myself more motivated, but it’s coming slowly.
So, choices.
I could, A, give up the webspace completly and not have to pay the bill anymore. It would mean more money each month. Problem with that is Dakota is still using part of the space here for Cylys. I don’t want to force him to go out and get space until he has a job and can afford to pay for it monthly.
I could, B, let it sit here as it has been doing for so long and just let it be. Problem with that is it’s a waste of money in terms of my use of it. Others that I host stuff for make use, but I don’t get much out of it, especially after a recent talk I feel I get even less.
I could, C, burn it all down and start fresh. I might. Probably what that means is locking all the old posts (on the site, not the LJ or FB side post threads), and probably deleting all the twitter posts. I liked those, but without me posting regularlly, they feel hollow to me. I don’t even twitter too often right now anyway. I’d like to post here more often, but not since the November after I first got the site up have I managed to post daily. Maybe I can convince myself to post some sort of schedule. Not once a week, that’s too far apart. Maybe at least a Tuesday/Friday thing might be good. Make me earn that friday night game night by doing some extra writing. It’s a trade off. I know writing here takes away time I should be either writing fiction or working my projects, but a part of me really does like doing the occasional blog post. I might just do some of the reviews I like doing too.
Yeah, I probably will do C, might make that my project for the rest of the week. Cleaning this place up and getting some things up to speed.
With that in mind, I also need to get myself back into learning web code. At least enough to get some things around here looking nice. This theme is pretty, but it just isn’t me anymore. I need something more.
I’ll also be doing some more writing in the future. Namely because of a new area I’m moving my computer into. When I still living with my brother in New Orleans I always found it easiest to write when I had solitude, when I had a small den, a “man-cave” I suppose you could say. While I’d like to turn our guest room into said “man-cave,” there’s a major hitch in this plan. Namely, we have a long term guest in the house so for now, that’s just not possible. The next best option? The closet. That’s right, the master closest, in all it’s tight spaced glory. Raven is iffy about it, but supportive if it means more writing. I’ve been cleaning it out lately and I really love the feel of the place. I just hope I can convert it to an office soon enough. I’m not moving all of my computer equipment in there, just the old PC and monitor with a wireless network adapter. I won’t be using the net too much as it is intended specifically for use with wirting work. I really look forward to it honestly.
Now if I can just get Raven to stop making “my husband is in the closet” jokes…
jdiehl
