Sleep And Water

I had an awesome Christmas. Like usual, I went first to Catskill, NY
down to Dublin, Pennsylvania to spend time with all my family. I got to stay longer than last year, and even made a trip to the Q-Mart. Sadly, my Q-mart story from when I was 15, wherein I obtain a floppy disk filled with unofficial, animated, (and heavily pixelated,) Flintstones pornography, came out during gift-giving, and my family kept bringing it up for the rest of my stay.

Coolest gift: my hip mom spied me twittering about the comic chainsawsuit and got me the book! She even got it autographed for me. And this is only after me mentioning a few of my favorite strips. Wicked cool.

Upon first coming home for Christmas, I spent two very, very late nights working on websites. The first night I spent open-sourcing IsItChristmas, which now has a home on Github. Already, this decision is bearing fruit.

The other night was spent finally integrating Sir Kevin Burg’s redesign of my money site. Kevin actually gave me a mockup and HTML/CSS for the redesign back in like June, but my interests started veering in other directions and I stopped doing anything on the site. Maybe this will spark me into giving it some more attention.

Great holiday—very relaxing. It’s also been oddly grounding. My new weird freelancing lifestyle now seems somehow more real and “legitimate” after having been pierced by my lifelong holiday traditions. My world is not so different after all. One further effect: my two all-nighters were completely invigorating, and reminded me how much I miss working from internal motivation. These days, I regularly distract myself too much with books and games, and rarely binge on side projects. This has got to change…and now!