My PC won’t boot up.

Taken with instagram. My desktop computer is currently out of commission. I have no idea what to do. So I opened her up.

I will fix my computer like I handle most things. Sans pants and a lot of gingerale.

Holy Crap. That Journalist Wasn’t bull$#%!ing me.

I was featured in freaking Web Designer Magazine!

Oh, and not only was I featured within an article, I received Site of the Month for my portfolio website that’s discussed. I’m still in shock. I still feel like this an elaborate hoax. At the time of email correspondence with the journalist, my inherent insecurity as a designer led me to believe this was an elaborate hoax to steal all my sweet, sweet baby cash. But nope, that freelance writer who contacted me a few months ago is legit.

So around 5 this morning (don’t ask), I was perusing my Zinio iPad app and I noticed the latest digital issue was out. Boom then I saw my goofy-ass mug. Needless to say, I called my mom immediately. Her enthusiasm was present, but not as strong since it was literally 5 in the morning.

Suck it 12th grade AP Art teacher who hated everything I did. Well, to be fair, everything I did was terrible. I really don’t understand why I’m not selling my body under the I-30 highway. 

Huzzah. Thanks guys. Buy the magazine now through the Zinio app or online.

Celebrating 2 years of dicking around on the internet.

And to commemorate this blogging milestone, I finally debut the 4th redesign of this blog, with a new Tumblr Avatar to boot, no more drunk party photo. I’m all class now:

I was actually suppossed to finish this like in November, but this pesky thing called a job got in my damn way. Curse my need for White Castle frozen burgers!

This is crazy though, guys. I’ve never had this long of a commitment to anything. Women. Jobs. Sobriety. I really have to give it up to Tumblr and the large community that makes maintaining this blog fun and not a chore. My followers have  grown quite a bit since I first started and I’m still amazed that people actually look at this thing.

A lot has happened since year 1.

I got a new job, I’m a full Art-Director now. I moved to Plano. I started eating ground turkey (wtf right? it’s delicious). Got an iPad. Started a podcast. Attempted to do the “Robot” to impress a girl at a bar (that not only didn’t work, but I think I saw a little hate in her eye).

But mainly I have decided that I eventually want to pursue a career in digital/interactive art-direction & design. It’s been a long journey to get to that realization but sometimes that’s just the way it’s gotta be. These side projects I work on and blog about are my mental exercises. I don’t think my interactive work is anywhere near to the level I aspire to, but I’ll sure as hell keep trying. You should like a little insecurity in your designer. Keeps ‘em honest.

Working on this latest redesign of my blog has been pretty intense, especially with the new hours I keep at my job. However, I really wanted to explore the latest web technolgies and practices out there. Besides all the fancy CSS3 you’ll see around the site, I challenged myself by making the whole damn thing responsive & fluid. I also really tried to re-design this site from the ground up. I re-skinned the Disqus comments, adding post jump navigation that follows your mouse, and added Q&A posting capabilities (now you can ask me questions). Hell I even put some thought into the post social share buttons.

This was the hardest web project I’ve ever done, mainly cause I’m a front-end web-designer, not a developer (so please forgive me if you’re looking at my javascript and css files, I really did try at first to be efficient,  haha). I had to go back to the books, do research. If you guys are interested in a list of all the scripts and web components I used to make this site work, check out my humans.txt file.

It was hard work, but it was strangely fun trying to figure this stuff out, and I feel better experience coming out of the other end the process. The minute this thing starts feeling like work is when I need to call it quits.

Holy crap I’ve been rambling. Thanks for being patient and reading this. You guys are the best. And check out the site. Spread it around like the herp. I’m done.