Posts about my blogs.
Just finished setting up the Agriculture blog I have been wanting to get going for a while now: Rural Pursuits. You can click on the link or go to http://blog.tchad.ag.
Overall, I am happy with it. It does need just a little tweaking, but it is there. I have tons of things in the pipeline that I am writing – everything from Hedge Apples to Horses.
Ok, getting called away for real work now. Stay tuned.
So the Summer is almost officially over and I am back at the Workroom trying to make things happen.
I sat down last night and very loosely cobbled together a set of numbers that need to happen between now and the end of the Spring classes 2012. It is A LOT, especially for what I do here. So I need to get on the ball and not just wait for my MacArthur genius grant to come through.
There won’t be any clothing made this year – at least not until the late Spring – I am thoroughly burnt out on making clothing for the time being and the idea of making a dress sends me into paroxysms of anxiety. I am thinking of coming up with more designs and extending/developing the way they would be produced, but that is IT.
Instead I am going to try to develop the classes and other facets of the business. This is going to include some instructional video work, some language instruction, and more than a little high-end agricultural development in both Wisconsin and Indiana.
Today I have two girls coming up to work for a bit and then it is on to getting the Workroom up and running. With Greg’s estate, the extended Summer vacation, and my general malaise since March… Well, the place could use some tending-to.
But I feel more put together than I have for a very long time. It is funny how that works.
My personal blog is up and running. At least I think it is. All of the posts so far have been filler to get it configured properly.
If you stumble on this and see something wrong, let me know with an email or a comment.
I am going to switch gears now and work on my other personal blogs:
After I get all of my personal blogs up and running I will start adding more content and then post it to Facebook and to the Projects page at Metafilter.
Hopefully this renders properly – I have been putting it together on an old PPC Mac Powerbook G4 which has been a little draggy.
I named the blog what I did because I seem to always be surrounded by conspiracy theorists.
This may be some kind of sample error, or it may be that my sense of the crazy is heightened from growing up with them. In any case, they are steel to my magnet.
If there is someone in the room who subscribes to any number of crackpot theories (they would balk at calling them theories) they engage me in conversation, and then before I know it *BAM* “Of course that was before the Masons and Oprah started stealing all of my ideas.”
Some of these people have ended up being good friends, but I have learned not to poke the bear in the cage as far as this stuff goes. So Oprah and why your business aren’t going well are conversationally off-limits.
I do, however, like this image and may as well throw it up while I am fixing the images on the site and getting everything in order.
Stay asleep.
I have classes to teach from noon until 6.
I went to bed at 5 p.m. and got back up at midnight.
This is what I am going to feel like by 7 p.m.
And not like the guys I hear on the sidewalk going home from the bar (it is 3:45 a.m.).
Background image:
I was playing around with a beautiful watercolor paper and seeing how different colors and wetnesses worked with it. I only have a few sheets of it left, so I went from wet to dry.
I think I got this right. At least for the time being.
There is a lot of talking to myself involved in anything web or code related, so every time I get this image when I am testing the theme for this blog, my response is “Yes, I know: Story of my life.”
Yes, well, I've known that for quite a while.
That this is said in my workrooms/offices on a Saturday late night is even more appropriate.
