Leave at last

This may very well be my last update until I return from CONUS on 7 July. This week is the last opportunity to get ahead in my classes before I pull up roots and get on the road for 22 days. Of course I’ll be bringing my laptop with me, but uploading site updates in the least of my worries.

The website class hasn’t taught me squat yet, but then again we haven’t actually been assigned anything beyond student surveys and a bit of discussion groups. It also just happens to be one of the classes that I’m missing a required text book. Ooh-Rah for the mail system! I ordered the crap on 6 May and am still missing things. Unless I get it this week, I’m gonna have to get the boys to FedEx them to wherever I’ll be so I don’t get so far behind. It’ll be a juggling act of immense proportions.

I’ve invested a whopping $23.95 in the new Office XP 2003 Beta version, which includes FrontPage 2003 and plenty of promises to do cool stuff with web logs and such. For those of you who don’t know what a web log is, you’re reading one. But I’m sure it’ll have nifty little features to archive postings and navigate around so I don’t have to mess with the trivial things like format. I’m really looking forward to it and so should you! I was recently inspired by some website I’ve been snooping through and getting some good ideas as to how I want my site to develop. Even though this will always be a site about everything me, myself, and I, I’m aiming for a misdirection of sorts with a cover theme. Possible the look, feel, and navigation of a porn site, or maybe some kind of sales or business. Believe me, I’m really digging into this one. I’m looking into my own logo; something that’ll say jaymekohler.com forever! With that comes merchandise, flash intros, and/or more professional looking layouts. An artist I’m not, and I think the hardest time I’m going to have is the color scheme of things. Jaymekohler.com is going to be 100% my doing (even though I may steal bits and pieces here and there) and you can bet I won’t simply be cutting and pasting my way into home page history. The bottom line is: I really don’t know crap about web design and I plan on learning the good stuff. Messing around with this program, and consequently computers in general, keeps my brain sharp and as you all know, I need it!

Good things are on the way. You’ll be hearing more from me after I get back from leave, and by that time I’ll be packing all sorts of new material to post. The future theme here is professionalism (a term rarely used in the same sentence with my name), streamlining, and content to name just a few. Good luck to me and catch you on the flip side.

Peace out!

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