It’s midnight.   There is a storm rolling over us right now, courtesy of Tropical Storm Fay.   I love storms, but this storm is not why I can’t sleep.   No, I’ve been going to bed late recently – which is very naughty of me since one day I will have to return to work at 8 in the morning.

It’s starting to pour.   Our street is glowing a dull amber color from the street lights and the rain.   Every few seconds the sky lights up and I fear the power will go out with each strike.   It’s happened before, not while I’ve been posting, mostly while we are already asleep.

Ok, the beef of this post was to talk about how busy I’ve made myself.   I’m at home with Izzy until we figure out a different solution to her care.   While I am at home, I’m busy cleaning and cooking, yes, I’ve become the home maker.   I like a clean home, and I actually enjoy cooking, so I have no problem being a home maker.

If I am not playing with Izzy, and not home making.   I am on the internet writing post after post.   I’ve signed up for Dadosphere, an online community of blogging fathers.   I wrote my first post, even after some issues with their posting backend.   I don’t think it was “user error,” but I admit it could be.   Anyway, I plan to post there as well as For Better, For Worse, and here – about parenthood.   I think my posts on Dadosphere will correspond closer to my posts here.   For Better, For Worse is still in its infancy and I’m not sure which direction it will go, but it should be fun writing about relationships and parenting there.

I also started a different blog called, Mr. Nice Guy.   I write about specific situations that we all face in our day to day lives where we sometimes become less than hospitable to our fellow human.   I write on how to be nicer in situations where we normally become angry and frustrated.   I’m having fun with it, so I know I won’t get bored with it.

I’ve also been working on starting a home business: Five Media Digital Services.   I really enjoy designing websites, and actually many other things too.   I am starting to lean more to Industrial Design, but web design is still a lot of fun.   I finished Saint Augustine’s Website a month ago and from what I hear, people really like it.   I learned a lot and I hope to use what I learned to bring in some supplemental income.   The problem is two fold; I don’t have any formal training in design and there are TONS of web designers out there.   I’ve always sold myself short to the point of completely discouraging myself from completing this type of task.   I may not be great, but I think I am pretty good.   This time, I am going for it.   If I fail, at least I went through with something for once.

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I was going through Blogger today because I remember starting some blogs waaay before Google purchased them.   I was trying to remember what blogs I started under what logins… I had so many back then.   I found two that I started, but I think I had more… oh well those are forever lost in the abyss that is the internet.   Anyway, while in Germany, Ciriana and I were going to enter the Paris marathon and we began training a little less than a year before.   I started this blog to document my training and weight loss.   The funny part is that the blog stopped because the training sucked.   We were running with Ciri’s unit in the wee hours of the winter mornings.   Yup, running about 6 miles in 40 degree air, probably not good for your health.   That’s really just an excuse, the truth is we decided we were too wimpy to run 25 miles.   Check out my three posts though, it’s pretty funny.   My First Marathon at Blogspot.com

The other blog was part of this site when it was under a different domain name.   I used it as a photoblog.   Just pictures, no words.   It was a difficult thing to keep up with at the time because my computing resources were limited with my old Sony pc (Pentium 2 baby, oh yeah.)   Things are easier with a P4 and a gig of memory.   Yes, Photoshop takes 1 minute to load instead of 5!   Anyway, I have two posts on that one as well.   Check it out here: Photos of Europe.

I may integrate them into this site later, just because I like my old stuff.   I wish I would have kept all the original posts from Dull Inspiration.com (or the mirror site: TheWorldIsMines.com), remember that site?   Oh man, the memories…   I didn’t know a lick of HTML back then, so you can imagine how hard it was to keep up with it.   That’s what I liked about Blogger (then Blogspot), it was so easy to create posts and change the style of your site.   I don’t think it was able to use a domain name without the blogspot.com thing, but it does now!   I may go back to using it for some anonymous blogs I want to start.