So where do I begin? I don’t really have a lot to talk about, but it’s been a week since I added to the blog, and if I want the site to be listed in popular search engines, the content has to change. I’ve never been sure how much change is needed, but more than once a week I’m sure. Oh well, what can you do if you’ve got several sites to work on? I guess write about nothing at least once a week. :)

KennethCurtis.com is coming along fairly well. There are a lot of things that I like about it, but then there are some things that I think need to be changed, but it’ll be a while before I get around to it. I’ve been trying to decide who I want to interview for the site next. I have kind of decided that I’ll hopefully get one interview about every three weeks. I’ve just got too much on my plate right now.

The list I’m currently doing now, in no particular order:

• • Started my new book two days ago
  • I’ve got a video that I’ve started editing
  • I’m taking online class to learn php and Mysql
  • Friend asked me to develop a site for him
  • Trashed my hosting company site and started the redesign
  • Checking and sending out applications for job
  • Started an app last week… kind of put it on hold though
  • I’ve been pushing myself to learn motion graphics

All of these things are time consuming, for example, doing a site usually takes me about 40 hours to get it done and checked. The problem I’m having is that I’m pushing myself to do different things and to learn something that I feel I need to know. The new site, nowse-hosting.com is going to have a shopping cart. I haven’t done one in years and years. I’m also going to try and design directly from wordpress and bypass my normal framework. Earlier this afternoon I opened up the site and started to work on it. I think it only took me about a minute to realize that I’m out of my element not using Bootstrap. WP is completely different to work with (for the record, bootstrap is coding in html and css and WP uses some of that, but also has automated hooks).

Another example is each chapter I do on the programming class takes about 30 minutes. There are an average of about 8 chapters in each segment, and there are 21 segments… doing the math, 4 hours per chapter and a total of 84 hours. Actually that’s not that bad, but then there are times when I don’t quite understand and I have to redo some of them. I’m starting to understand sql better. The other day I was able to create, populate, and query a database with just some small problems.

Then there are all the problems or hitches I get into with just working on the computer. I think it was Monday I spent the whole day trying to update my software and in the end I went back to the old stuff, and the next day updated again and it worked fine. A whole day wasted for nothing, One of the biggest pains happened later last week. I decided that I wanted to create an app for kennethcurtis.com. I found an application that will help me create it, and downloaded it. Turned out that I needed to update my OS to use the app. As I mentioned I eventually was able to update so I could run the app. Then the app required xcode to be able to test the app. I downloaded and installed it, and was doing okay. Then I went to use one of my favorite programs and it wouldn’t work. It turned that xcode broke some of my programs. So I don’t have a real way to test my app that I’ve been building.

I know that this post is turning out to be more of a whine than anything, but it is kind of cathartic to write about it.