I finally decided to sit down and create decent headers and avatars for Dicks’ Hard Blog and Dicks’ Hard Blog Facebook page. This was the original vision I had for how I wanted the site to look. The new images were created in Blender 2.77a and GIMP 2.8.14. I used JFRockSolid font, extruded to .06, and applied a seamless limestone texture. I placed a single spotlight just above the camera, cranked it up to 10, and placed a white plane at a 22º angle beneath the text.
I’ll stop boring you with technical details now.
Now that I’ve got the place polished up and the generic placeholders I made in frustration after I’d tried and failed to create these images the first time have been
banished to the recycle bin, perhaps I will feel more inclined to put more words here more often — perhaps even finish one of the twenty or so blogs I have half-written in OneNote. Some of them are over a year old.
So, It would appear that, although I always wanna be startin’ something, got to be startin’ something, I have a completion problem. The closer I get to the end of a thing, the slower I work on it, the less frequently I revisit it. This is something I must remain mindful of and overcome.
Perhaps 2017 will be the year that I pull away from wasting hours staring at various social media feeds and revisit my unfinished blogs and finish them. And maybe I’ll revisit my unfinished stories and finish them. Perhaps I’ll drag out my unfinished novels and finish them.
Perhaps.
I’m 42. This may sound silly, and that’s because it totally is, but I kind of have myself convinced that this is the year I’m going to figure out how to life, how to universe, and how to everything, the year that I finally nail down — what exactly the fuck?
Yeah, yeah. Shaddup. I know, I don’t really believe it. But if I can use it as motivation to force myself to fulfill the prophecy in whatever small way, then I’m going to count that as a win.
Most people my age are trying to figure out how to trick their kids into doing what they need to be doing. I spend my time trying to figure out how to trick myself into doing what I want to be doing, how to thwart my own constant self-sabotage. As those famously cunning linguists, the Beastie Boys, sang, “Listen, all of yall, it’s a sabotage!”
Wish me luck!
Stay Tuned!
And what do you think of the new design? Good? Blah? Suggestions?