It Don't Get No Righter

So, what have I been up to?

Well, I just got married, so what do you think? Oh yeah, that's right... lots and lots of computer games.

I'm trying to change jobs, too, which is always scary for me... I like change for most things, but I hate the process of getting a job. It's all so subjective and unsure. There's 80 million things that you're supposed to do and I forget to do all of them.

I want to get a good portfolio built up so that I can show it off to my potential employers. But, I haven't had much time to work on my web site code. Believe it or not, I want to be a web site programmer and, right now, that site looks like crap. Angelfire doesn't work with fully working XHTML of any type. The advertisement at the top of the page goes away and leaves the following in its place:

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You figure that out... How can someone write code that poorly? I've tried making the DOCTYPE less strict, but it still messes up... I need to switch to a better page provider. Angelfire is too screwed up for me.

I also want to showcase the other web site projects I've worked on over the years, but I will either have to compromise to screenshots or to a simulation of the ASPs that I made, because it's tough to reproduce the entire web site and still be proud of it. Don't get me wrong, I wrote some great code, but on collaborative projects, much of the final result is sub-par for me. I'd have to sort of restrict it to only pages I wrote. I also don't want to be taking credit for others' work, because some of them did decent jobs.

Today, my wife called me and said that someone in our church might be interested in hiring web site developers because they need more for contracts they have. I'm all about that, if it's legit.

After moving to Michigan, I've been confronted probably 3 times by college-age people who will just walk up to you and start talking to you about how you look familiar and ask you where you're from and tell an anecdote about how they relate to you... then they awkwardly switch gears and start asking you if you're an adventurous person or if you consider yourself open-minded. Why don't they just say, "Do you want to give me lots of money?" like the people in DC do? I guess I'm used to a more up front type of hustler. Firstly, I hate preppy guys. Secondly, I hate outgoing people. Thirdly, I hate scams. Fourthly, I like money. Those four reasons are what allow me to just laugh while they were so happy that they had smoothly made it all the way up to "the pitch." If I ever resort to offering "business opportunities" like that, shoot me dead.