Ok, it's time to add a little me-style to this blog. I'm torn though. As you know, the domain is lucassmith.name, but the blog is named Dr Prolix, a favorite handle of mine, and very appropriate. Well, at least the prolix part. One of my goals for this blog is to help focus my writing; stop being so verbose. I could digress (obviously). So here's the crux: I believe that a site should have a consitent look and feel throughout it's navigable areas, and I want the domain to serve as a location for me, not my handle. However, Dr Prolix is much more inspiring a name/concept than lucassmith.

Just get on with it!

So I think I'll adopt a methodology that I've been trying to incorporate into my daily life. Just do little bits at a time. I tend to want to do everything at once. If the project is big, I'll wait until I have time to do it all, then just go from start to (hopefully) finish. (aside: I just noticed that the font used to type/edit a post in WordPress is a serif font, but the default style for displaying it is sans-serif. Odd.) Not surprisingly, I tend to not quite make it to the finish, but it's so close that it will do. I'm thinking specifically of my remodelling work. My bathroom has been nearly done for almost two years because I couldn't fit all the work into the two weeks I allotted myself to do it in. I'm just recently starting to finish it up because of my new method of "just do one thing every day".

GTD

There's a big following of the Getting Things Done book and teachings of David Allen (and I would suppose many others). I see GTD pop up time and time again on many of the blogs I read. Ironically, I haven't gotten around to reading many articles on it, let alone the book itself. But this blog is a testimate to my burgeoning ability to escape the overload paralysis that's plagued me for so long.

Did I say focus?

So here I am, a couple paragraphs later, and I haven't talked much about design. But at least it all relates. As I was saying, I'm having trouble coming to terms with the overall style direction for the site. Really this is just a symptom of my troubles deciding on an overall purpose of the site. What's the main purpose it serves, and for whom? And my answer is: blech. I'm not going to worry about that today. I have some style ideas for the Dr Prolix section, and I'll start there. The rest will work itself out in time. I need to keep moving forward. If I wait for all the answers to come, chances are I won't like those answers in a couple months anyway. May as well do some rough drafts. Really, every answer is a rough draft anyway.