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Fitness: Back down to 204.8 just in time for the weekend. If I hit 204.2 tomorrow and spring back up to 206.6 on Monday, I’ll be stuck in a loop. I’m going to have to be really good about my food intake this weekend, and I’ll crank up the exercise if I’m able to. On to the blog! |
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Quite a few things coincided late in the month of October 2009 that lit a fire under me and made me want to accomplish tons of things I’ve set out to do but haven’t gotten around to yet. My friends would say that I was already ambitious before this, but I don’t think I was ambitious enough for my own satisfaction. I still don’t think I have enough time to be, but to be able to do so requires a change in lifestyle that I’m not ready to make yet for a number of reasons. So, in order to appease my insatiable zest to create and achieve goals, I’ve been focusing on starting one big project per month and doing my best to focus on putting as much effort into said project as I can before the next month arrives. Here’s what I’ve been working on! November 2009 – Cleaning up the Concatenation Records site This one is still a work in progress, but my biggest goal was getting the site compliant with the W3C standards. I’m only trying to meet the HTML 4.01 standards established in 1999, so it’s not the most difficult thing in the world, though some of the pages had upwards of 150 errors (one of them still does) and now all but four of the 163 pages of the site meet those standards. Of those four, two should be rather easy to fix (info & links), one will take a little more time (shop), and one is going to be quite an epic undertaking (artists), though that one will be more because of content issues rather than coding ones. Though the vast majority of the work is done, I’m still spending a few hours once or twice a week working on the page. Also, in getting the Concatenation Records pages compliant with said standards, I’ve been able to carry that page format over to my other sites and I’ll be using it (or slight modifications of it) for the pages I’ll create in the future. Definitely a win-win situation in my book! December 2009 – Starting up For the Love of Creativity In the months leading up to December of last year, I began reading a lot of blogs besides my two usual favorites ([Invisible Oranges] and [Metal Sucks]) and I thought that it might behoove me to start one up. I’ve enjoyed writing for a long while and at the time I started up the blog, I felt like I hadn’t been doing enough of it. I’ve been wanting to get back to writing stories and potentially novels, so I thought that writing something on a regular schedule would help me to get warmed up and ready to do so. Two months and three times a week later (save for while I was at [MAGFest 8]), it’s coming along to my satisfaction and I still have a lot of things I want to cover. I also wouldn’t have started the blog if I thought I didn’t have anything to talk about. I know I have some insight to share with people about my adventures in music, fitness, gaming and beer and I’ve been doing my best to do so over the past two months. I know the latter two have yet to be covered much, but they will be when the time is right. That said, the blog hasn’t come off quite as I thought it would, as I was going to do my best to be informative and helpful to all readers with my topics. It’s fair to say that a good majority of these blogs have been focused on events relating to my personal life and things I’ve taken part in creating rather than focusing on a specific topic. It’s all worked out, because some of the personal blogs have been more helpful to folks than the ones that focus on a more concrete idea. In any event, I look forward to continuing with this blog for an indefinite amount of time. I plan to get back to writing stories at the beginning of next year, though I don’t imagine I’ll stop blogging when I do so. January 2010 – Starting up Philistine on the Sidewalk I know I’ve already talked about this one specifically in a blog post, so I’ll keep this short. Discovering [Bull of Heaven] coincided with a lot of the other things going on in my life this past fall and I’ve been wanting to do something more improvisational for quite some time now, ever since I put together [Streams of Consciousness] for [The Great Beyond] back in 2003. Philistine on the Sidewalk was originally going to be an offshoot of my [Amaranthine Skies] project entitled “Adrift in an Everlasting Sky”, but many other elements came together and led me to starting up a new project that would focus on such creations. Things haven’t been quite as improvisational as “Streams of Consciousness” was, as that song was free improvisation on every recorded part and the only parts like that on the new songs have been the reverse reverb guitar parts. Then again, I really like combining the free improvisation and loops, so why mess with what I enjoy? Unlike Bull of Heaven, I knew that I didn’t have time to create and put multiple hours of drone online in a day, but I thought if I could get a track up every week or two, that would be great. So far, that schedule has worked out pretty well and I’ve already been able to complete three songs. I’m working on a fourth, and I’m looking to get it done this weekend. It also has the potential to be one of the prettiest songs (if not the prettiest) I’ve ever done. It’s a little ditty in F Major with a 23/16 time signature. The current title is “A Scenic Thoroughfare” and I’m hoping for a Sunday evening release. Wish me luck! February 2010 – Rebooting Nintendo-A-GoGo Ever since letting the site fizzle out in 2005, I’ve had plans on getting Nintendo-A-GoGo cleaned up and thriving again. It was going to happen in 2006, but then I got a new job and lifestyle. It was going to happen in 2007, but then getting [Concatenation Records] launched and functioning became a priority. It was going to happen in 2008, but then I got asked to write and redo the old Nintendo-A-GoGo reviews for [Good-Evil]. It was going to happen in 2009, but completing albums and compilations took priority. What I’m hitting you over the head with saying is that this has been a long time in the making, and it was going to be launched this month, but I was still formulating things and working on how much would be covered about the first game to be featured (which has been played and completed on the hardest difficulty setting). At least I’m actually working on it now! I’m going to have my old collaborative VG sites (Game Frenzy and Nintendo’s University of Classic Gaming) available through it and the original version of the site will stay up as well, because who doesn’t love embedded MIDI files? The new version of the site will take the material from the old site and give it a rather complete revamp as well as add new material. I’m hoping to get the site up on Thursday the 4th, so again – wish me luck! March 2010 and Beyond I still have plenty of projects I need to embark upon, and I’m not sure if new albums will be counted in those projects. If so, I have even more to do! I need to get websites up for all of my projects, even if they are as minimal as the [Philistine on the Sidewalk] one. There’s an old, somewhat functional site up for Amaranthine Skies and a splash page for Cyanidic Rapture leading to the album release page on Concatenation, but none of the others have one. I also have new ideas for pages that I want to get up and running over this year, but I still need to figure exactly how I’m going to execute them and when. Then there’s the beer! The big goal for this year has been to start brewing beer on some scale (likely a small one for now). I still haven’t had a chance to look at that micro brewing book I got for Christmas, but I’m going to make some time to read in this upcoming month. I’m not sure when, but I will. A trip to the nearby micro brew supply store is also in the cards for the near future. In conclusion, a new project every month sure keeps life interesting! It also keeps me from getting burned out because I’m not trying to do everything at once. Do you have any new projects you want to get started? Come by and talk about them at the forum. There’s no time like the present! Discuss this post at [The Forum of Jason Vincion]! Posted on January 29th, 2010. |
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