UnrealisticExpectations 3.0

I’m creating another blog–more of a “professional” blog, if you will.

That is, for those of you who’ve known this place for years, I’m actually going to have a place where I can write about topics that are related to what I do as a professional.

Maybe that’ll help keep this, my previous home for smart-assery, a little more that and a little easier for me to blog at–in that style, at least.

We’ll see.

That said, I’m trying to get a little assistance with making sure the design that I have in mind will work and that I can just sort of push WordPress into my template, but I know it’s never as easy as I want it to be.

So, if you’ve got some experience, leave a comment, send an IM to Roughy or push a message to me on TehSoapbox and let’s discuss. Mostly, I feel as if I really just need some guidance on where to start and I need to be able to ask a few “Can I do this?” type of questions.

Naturally, everything is pretty much completed and I’m ready to roll, but until I can wrap all this up, well, I’m in a holding pattern. Fortunately, there’s plenty to write about over there…

Fatwallet is teh Awesome.

And, if you flip through the first page of this thread, I’m pretty funny, too.

http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/707865/

Enjoy, while I go play some Xbox360 and/or Wii.

I do a lot of different things out here on the web, but one of them is generally as an extension of “what I do” in real life. So, knowing that I’m not as much of a designer as I used to be (hahahahaha!!!), but knowing I can handle project management, estimations, production and some development, I keep around a Design site or two that I have.

Mostly, though, I work in User Experience.

So, given that I’ve turned on registration in order to comment so that I don’t get 3000 spams in a day that I have to approve / disapprove, the ol’ commenting has sorta stopped–not that it hadn’t all but up-and-died anyway… Anyway. Update on this: Comments shut back off for non-registered users; too much spam for me overnight. No worries, I’d never sell off all 8 of your names, anyway.

I’ll turn it back on to see what people like for the name of a new thing I’m doing: UserGlue

That’s where it’s at currently, but there’s a whole page of them here.

Epic (8 minutes long, will require the Flash player and that you let it launch a pop-up)

Scary.

Because it “feels” like this actually COULD happen.

And maybe, just maybe because I happen to be working on a project that’s in the media.

Just saying.

Have a good weekend, eh?

Those of you long-timers will remember Drew Baye. He’s getting married in about 2 weeks up by Green Bay, WI, and we’re going to make the trip. I’ve “known” Drew online since before I met Nicolle. We used to be on some Flash lists together and we started pinging each other as we were rocking the scene. It kind of kept going from there, and it’s really cool to get to meet someone for the first time…

At their wedding… lol.

Now that’s funny. Or something. It’s like an oddball online dating thing spanning a long, long time. Minus the sexual attraction, boobies or filthy talk.

It’ll be nice to see him and Emma and the little guy Luke. It’s been a long, long ride for Drew, but his life is finally getting all straightened out and to a really good point, and the guy deserves the breaks.

Go Drew!

I need some assistance.

See? I’m big enough to ask for directions, honey.

Seriously.

I’m falling in love with WordPress. This new little way of blogging for me is quite refreshing compared to the clutter that used to be UE 2.0. And I liked that; don’t get me wrong. (more…)