Shattered Sun

I can tell you from experience that people love to get handmade items.  Or at least they fake it when they tell me how much they appreciate it.  I can tell you that I simply adore it.  I wish for it.  As a matter of fact, I’m hoping that more of my friends and family will go that route this year.  Why?  Because there’s a bit more heart and soul in the handmade gift.  There’s something special tucked into it.  Something fantastic that defies description.  And if you aren’t a believer yet, peruse Etsy and enjoy the imagination & beauty that is there.  And maybe, just maybe, you can make the Pledge to Buy Handmade.  I don’t know if I can promise to buy everything handmade.  However, I know that I’ll be doing my usual and making gifts for my beloveds. 

There’s a growing trend in medicine to pay a bit extra (relatively speaking) to have your doctor return to the care your ancestors used to get.  The services include at home visits, taking you personally to the emergency room, knowing your voice (by actually talking to you), keeping the client list small enough to spend more than five minutes with you, etc, etc.  That would so rock.  However, with all the expenses in this world, who on earth has the money to pay for extra medical ones?  They’re expensive enough as is!  It bites!  I know how it goes though.  Medical care is an industry and just like in the industry I work in, you have to pay a bit extra if you want great service.  Good service is not cheap and great service is worth a lot of money.  So, in a nutshell, I’m thrilled that it’s coming back into style for doctors to give that level of personal care.  I just wish I could afford to participate in it! 

That I’m almost completely done with Tranquility.  This is a plus as it is a time sink.  :)  What do you y’all think?  I’ve never done a Joomla site before but I have to tell you that I am just loving that theme and I’m even considering putting Wekeli Photography into Joomla now that I’m more familiar with it.  Some of the cool attributes just rock my socks!  Anyone else out there use Joomla for anything?  I see the potential and would love to see what people have done with it. 

On a side note…  I’ve been told that I need to try SEOing my website so that Google, etc can better validate it for search rankings.  What a job!  I’m not even remotely interested in doing it but I know I should.

Smart comment spammers. I’m lazy and I don’t want to have to deal with spam on my sites. Smart comment spammers suck.

I was busy working on this site today:  Tranquility which is a World of Warcraft guild.  I don’t play as often as I probably should to make an effect but I still like to help where I can.  This type of stuff is just perfectly up my ally.  This is the first draft.  I’m not overly thrilled with the limitations, but I’m going to be changing that as we go along.  I have other things to deal with and this isn’t first on my plate, if you know what I mean.  :)  Anyway, thought I’d share so that people knew what I’ve been doing with myself.