My Tent on The Beach

My early budding farm

I can’t get enough of this game right now.  Yes it’s on Facebook.  I need to share the joy.

Well, I’m kind of excited.  I’ve been blogging for a long time.  In fact, it’s almost been 3 years.  And while Vox and Blogger and all of those were great, recently, I’ve felt obscenely confined by their design rules.  So, I’ve done what I always wanted to do.  The Beach Tent is now free and clear of constraints…and has landed at it’s very own domain name (whatever that means).

But what’s funny about this process is that I think it pretty much is a metaphor for the way I go about my daily life. What easily could have been a 10 minute process, I turned into a six-hour journey into how web site management works.  While I now know what FTP means (and I’m angry about it) and I know how to set up a database in c-panel (this just makes me furious), last night the light went on too late and I realized that because I am who I am, I turned a simple, easy process into the behemoth of all productions.

But it did render me this in the end, which I’m thrilled about.  I’m really not changing my schtick or my handle.  But I am going to consolidate.  Instead of trying to find blogs to fit all of my categorizing needs, I’m just gonna write about all of it here, and put my pictures up, and generally take pride in the fact that I’m now the proud owner of a “domain” (which makes me sound lord-like, actually).

You’re free and welcomed to be my serf whenever you like.  Give me a couple weeks to really get things settled…and then we’re off to the races again.

Patience, people. This has been a long time in coming…