I Should Be Committed

No doubt, some of my friends would easily agree with that statement and happily offer to make the phone calls to Shep-Pratt or Spring Grove to get the ball rolling, but that's not the type of commitment I mean. I made a note on one of my sites that I had too many blogs and that too many of them were dying on the vine, so to speak. So, I chopped off the head of one, dumped most of the entries on another and will be actively contemplating the death of several others (or at least consider the combination of several in to one). Their time has come to be assimilated.

Spring cleaning mode has hit the bookshelves in my house - I'm using LibraryThing to catalog the books and decisions are being made as to which shall make the cut and which shall be banished to yard sales and thrift shops. Some of them may actually get added to the listings I keep up on PaperBackSwap, just in case someone there may be interested. I have an order to these things,  you see. First choice is to actually make money from them, so some of them will go along to our community yard sale tomorrow. Those that remain tomorrow night will be sorted into piles based on their ability to appeal to anyone and I'm thinking of adding a book sale list to my local website so that my neighbors can pick any that they may want for a nominal sum. Third choice then becomes listing them on PaperBackSwap and converting them into other books, though I'd rather not add a lot of additional books to the piles that already exist here. Final destination, mostly for the hard backs, will be the local thrift shop where the will become a tax write-off.

Back...

I had actually forgotten about this blog - not actually that surprising when I think about how many different sites I have...

Business isn't exactly booming, but it is getting better all the time. I've been busy updating the blogs on most of the other sites that I run to eliminate some of the headaches of blog spammers. As fas as I'm concerned, they should string up whoever wrote the software that allows these jerks to attempt to post to blogs without ever going through the main page of a site. In some cases of particularly persistent spammers, I've had to block them from accessing the site completely, which is a bit of a pain, but it is amusing to see the same IP addresses showing up in the error logs for the sites in question.

Productive Days

After all this time, I finally decided recently to get back to work in the web design arena, starting with a major overhaul of my business site at TechCrafters Design. About the same time, one of my customers from my part-time job mentioned that he was looking for some help with his website, so I took a look at what he had online at that point. Yep, he needed some help. That was on Friday before last. I spent some time over the weekend doing a mock-up of how I thought a site redesign should look and sent a link to Steve, my potential customer, to see what he thought. The rest, as they say, is history. We're finishing up the final touches today and the site should be live tomorrow. Gotta love having local customers!