Begone, generic template! I was able to recreate my old template and stylesheet a lot more easily than I thought. My old webhost has come back up again, as mysteriously and randomly as they disappeared in the first place. I’m still sticking with blogspot for now, for many reasons, not least of which is reliability.

Note that I say for now, though. To put it in a more convoluted way: if I were the sort of person who had business cards, and this website were the sort of site that I would put on a business card, this is not the address I would use. I would probably use this one, since I pay Joker good money to park it for me, and it redirects here.

It’s funny, how adult registering that domain made me feel. I’ve been publishing stuff on the web for almost a decade, but I never really considered registering a domain. Now here I am with two, and considering paying for real hosting. Weirder yet is the collection of brochureware I’ve been amassing about my pie-in-the-sky web design firm. The stuff is getting a little too refined to be called doodles anymore.

I even have a logo. I don’t do logos. And it’s fabulous. Iconic. It came to me whole and I banged it out in 5 minutes in photoshop.

This may actually be happening. I might become of those people who have a place they work for a paycheck, and then there’s the thing they actually do. And being one of those of people makes it that much more likely that you can become a person who gets paid for what they do. That’s an exhilerating, scary thought.

I should have put this disclaimer at the top, but I am on an awful lot of cough syrup.