Flash and Web Design

my mood: rushed
reading: The Last Heroes by W.E.B. Griffin
listening to: www.highscoreonline.com 8-bit background goodness
Playing: Fire Emblem
Working on: My Eagle Scout Rank Application
Trying to learn: Macromedia Flash
Practicing: 3-ball juggle

Well, once again I've missed my update day. This whole set update schedule apparently does not work for me. So, in order to remedy the problem, I'm just going to get rid of the schedule. I'll try to update on Saturday's at the minimum, but no guarantees. For those of you who aren't already aware, I am showing the date and time of my most recent blog posts in my AIM profile. Once again, my AIM screen name is hergenjohn.

Ok, now for the post before last post in review. Third paragraph: It'll be a while before this thing moves, if at all. Fourth paragraph: I think this is one of the longest times I've gone without impulse buying of some sort. Fifth paragraph: Same thing. Contact me through AIM or e-mail me. Sixth: Still holds true. Now for last post. First paragraph: Seriously, come and ramble. I enjoy listening. Second paragraph: Not much to say on that. OK, now on to new topics.

I've recently been trying to learn how to use Macromedia Flash. It is far more difficult than I had expected. Of course, most of that difficulty is probably caused by my learning strategy: screw around with the software and hope I learn. I figured that since it worked with Photoshop, I might as well try it. However, for Flash, I think I'm going to switch over to using tutorials. With luck I'll be able to figure out how Flash works from them. At the very least, I'll learn a little.

Life is a little crazy at the moment. Along with trying to keep all of my schoolwork straight, I'm also trying to finish my last few steps to getting Eagle Scout. I should probably be working on finishing everything I need instead of writing this, but for some reason I really don't feel like it.

By "a few steps", I may be making an understatement. I still have to finish finding references, look up a couple of dates, and write a "statement of my ambitions and life purposes". I've pretty much taken care of the references, and I plan on finding out the dates today at the scout meeting. However, I'm not so sure about the life goals and ambitions part. My life goals and ambitions are pretty vague. They aren't just so short that I can sum them up in one sentence, they pretty much are one sentence. Something like "Enjoy life and make the world a better place at the same time." It may be simple, but it works for me.

Web page design is also harder than it seems. Its not so much the difficulty of the job, as much as the exactness that is required to have a good looking design. A few pixels misalignment can make the whole thing look screwed up. I'm going to scrap my old designs and do it more methodically. First a layout, then do my tables (carefully), then put in the images and such. Of course, that's only to get the homepage done.

I need to start plugging my blog IRL. Hopefully I can get a bit more traffic through here. Of course, I only have a very small potential reader base: people who know me. No matter, I'll plug it anyway. It would also be nice if you, my readers, would do the same. If you know someone who knows me, or hell, someone who knows of me, give 'em the link, even if you think they've seen it already.

So I guess that's it. You've lived through another installment of my blog. That wasn't too painful, was it? The next one will be in a while, I suppose. Just watch my AIM profile. In the meantime, while you eagerly await (yeah, right) the next post, talk to me. IRL, if possible, but if not then on AIM. Just tell me who you are. I've had some strange experiences with AIM. ^_^

~WeeboHyren