Forty Years Old and Cornered. Working on the Next Chapter: Too Old to be Young, Too Young to be Old.

This is the former title graphic and the old description for this blog. What the hell's a blog? I said, when a friend mentioned I might be interested in checking it out last summer. We had been talking about ways to be more creative in our lives, and he suggested blogging. What a great idea! A bit of clicking around, and within minutes I had my first site up and running! It was that easy.

Throughout the late summer and fall, I blogged and blogged some more. It helped to set out my thoughts (uhm, vent). Man, what a Chapter to work on!

But in the last six weeks, I've turned another year older (sheesh, 41), and I've moved. The next chapter has begun, and whether I am ready for it or not.

And with all the midnight oil spent attempting webpage design, it was time to apply it to the ole blogsite. This is the result...

Doing this wasn't as easy as I thought it might be. More than a few hours were spent on figuring out how why elements weren't settling properly on the page. (I think I've taken care of that.) It would have been definitely easier to download a "skin" or a copy some code from another site. Considered it, but then I'd miss the opportunity to teach myself. So... if I can say I learned anything from blogging...

This site is hopefully completed -- oops, rendered -- in transitional XHTML using a style sheet template. It means trying to create a "tables" look without tables.

This is only the beginning (muhahahaha). Now that I'm 41, I can't pull all-nighters the way I once could, so that puts a (temporary) end to tonight's project.

Besides, I need to shift and obsess about something else, like Warning Lights on my dashboard or something. But I'll be back, and stay tuned: More changes afoot...

Comments welcomed: There's a "contact me" link to the right -- hey, you can even contact Grace now if you want! -- and I KNOW from my handy-dandy site reader that I have some regular visitors (and not the two friends I've told)... I'd like to hear from visitors. Who *are* you?

Sidebar: I go back and forth whether I should blogroll and link and comment like crazy. It's stupid: Popularity isn't the goal of this blog, but I do like hearing comments and getting e-mails. *sigh* Note to self: Add 'petty' to list of descriptives.