My Mumbling Thoughts

Considering I have zero prior knowledge to anything that deals with the internet and how it functions, this past week has been quite the learning experience. It has been one huge crash course in site building, html codes, servers, domain names, uploading, installing, and working templates. In truth I had been thinking about a new design for my blog for a long time I just never put any kind of action behind it. It wasn't until about two weeks ago that I actually began to ask people how they got started, what did they do, how does it all work?

Then as soon as I got word that one of my co-workers discovered where I stashed all of my writing online, that was a big enough fire lit under my ass to kick the re-modeling designs into high gear. Inside my head I was running around like a crazy lunatic trying to figure out how I could get all of these new toys to function properly together while consuming a million mini tacos. You'd actually be very surprised at how many mini tacos can be consumed in a 48 hour time frame. Obviously I wouldn't recommend it, but still, quite a surprise.

At the moment I've been fiddling around in places that I think should be left alone. I keep reading all of these online manuals that make me click on links that make me shake in my boots. I know that with one simple click of my mouse I could possibly destroy the entire make-up of my new blog. But that little part of my brain that is constantly pumping curiosity throughout my body forces my fingers to continue to click, just to see where I'll end up. So far nothing major has occurred but I have sort of/kind of done something to the Movable Type installation. It doesn't look the same as when I first got it. Now it looks really off and crappy. Sure, I can still use it but it's not really easy on my eyes. Eventually I'll have to go back, re-trace my steps and try to figure out what the hell I did in order to mess things up. Then I need to leave it all alone before it all completely breaks down.

So I'm still clicking, typing, reading and learning about these new internet lands. Hopefully I can get some brighter colors, figure out how to add all of my old archives and make it feel more like me. Until then it looks like cloudy weather for My Mumbling Thoughts.