geochurn.com goes live

.:it’s swelltastic!:.

i have now completed phase I of my blogging education and entered phase II. phase I was to just get a general blog up with some content. i used wordpress.com to create this, made use of a default theme, chose some topics to write on and shoved off into the world. i quickly became a little annoyed at how little customization i could actually do, and so i was determined to move up to phase II as quickly as possible.

as it were, waking up at 3:30 in the morning due to stomach issues has some advantages (glass is half full attitude…glass is half full attitude…glass is…), i’m finding out. when it’s that early and you can’t sleep, boredom tends to set in very quickly, and so this morning i said to myself, ’self, i think it’s time to play a game of ‘make it happen’ with the ol’ wordpress.org 2.1 install‘.

so here we are in phase II.  i got it set up, imported all of my posts over from this location and set up a new theme and modified it (a little) so that it’s a little more cleaner and navigable. further learnings for phase II include:

• researching and deploying any useful plugins for wordpress 2.1 (although this is kind of a challenge right now because the upgrade to 2.1 broke a bunch of pretty useful plugins)
• setting up the metadata with keywords/descriptions and other general SEO best practices
• setting up adsense so that i can see if i can possibly make a couple of cents
• further narrowing down what i should talk about in order to more fully realize the above bullet
• rocking. more rocking.

in other news, i/we went to ikea up in roundrock, and that was an interesting experience.  we’ve been to ikea several times before, and today, i’ve decided that the only reason that you should go to ikea is if you absolutely know that you need to get something and you have a general idea of what specific item you want.  ikea has a tendency to make you want to blood eagle someone after being there for too long…

oh yeah, and i think i’m finally going to get a wii today. or rather, tonight. well…technically tomorrow, i guess. wal-mart is apparently going to have them available at midnight, and so i’ll be leaving here shortly to ensure that i’m on the list to get one.  i’m determined to get one more than ever now because…well…just because.  principle…general principle.

one final note: have to send out some congratulations to our friends jill & ben novak.  they just had their second kid…another girl.  the craziness is that she probably weighs maybe 102 soaking wet…and she went and had a 9 lb. kid. i am weak. women are strong. i am glad i am not a woman when i hear things like this.

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