Taking it easy

I ended up taking it easy today. I think I might be developing my annual bronchitis. I started feeling strange just before mother’s day when I was exposed to lilies at work for a long period of time, and the chemicals tend to make me sick. I was actually worried that I’d be getting an ear infection as that has happened in the past, but so far I’ve just been dealing with a sore throat. Which I have proceeded to cram as much ginger, citrus and honey down as possible. That and Ricola cough drops…

Aside from that I had my hair appointment today, and I’ve gotten the reboot of the main slacker’s website back up and running as an anti-social network of sorts. A place where people can go and post statuses, pictures etc. Check it out and join if you want.

I will continue to make changes to it, but for the time being I figured it would be a nice basic setup. I’m still not going to setup a forum as there doesn’t seem to be much of a call for one. I’ve been hanging around in other groups, watching them try to put together forums. They make valiant efforts putting them together and getting the word out to join, but the forum scene seems to have died off unless you’re either part of a large gaming community or a niche website with a lot of traffic. Community guild/clan forums aren’t what they used to be, which is kinda sad.

I’d much rather use forums than use facebook, teh google plus, etc etc… That and with chat and VoIP programs it also kinda leaves forums in the dust… although it would make it more awkward for community newcomers compared to just joining a forum. Then again some of today’s people with their smartphones don’t even know how to use forums. Which is evident by what I’ve seen on certain forums recently, notably on Steam forums and even the Cyan forums.

It’s nice to feel appreciated

The dentist’s office saw my medical history template and loved every bit of it, said it was professional looking. 😛 They also really love the site. I added the testimonials for it today, there’s also a form so that people can submit their own (with moderation of course). I’d love to find more work like this, it’s right up my alley and a nice way to make some coin on one of many hobbies.

Working on it has given me some ideas for this website, and the main Guild Of Slackers one. I’ve thought about making forums again but no one seems to really use those, or shows a desire to use them since we have an IRC channel and a mumble server. As far as the WordPress side I’m not sure what to do with that other than give it a fresh new look. :

Open Thread

Almost done with the doctor’s website. I just have to take care of the testimonials and a couple other details and that will just about cover it. I’ve also taken on work creating a new medical history form from scratch, spent most of the morning/afternoon on that in MSPub. Then I’ll turn it into a PDF and put it up on their site so people can download/print it out. It’s a good thing I have all these tools on hand, haven’t touched them in years (or ever before) and now they’re being put to good use. Pays to install all of the things. 😛

All work and no play makes me want to play even more

I spent most of yesterday futzing around with my own wordpress install, and today with the doctor’s wordpress. It’s nearing completion! I just need to turn a form into a PDF, and get a paypal setup of somekind rolling and I should be finished. From then on out it’ll just be basic maintenance and any addons they want me to install.

I’d post more, but my weekend was cut a bit short. I was supposed to have off tomorrow but have to cover for one of my incompetent co-workers… Such suck is life.