As for what’s been hap­pen­ing to me, I’ve been some­what busy as of late with updat­ing my site. I’ve been doing a lot of work on sub­mit­ting my site to blog list­ings and trying to work on get­ting link-​ins. It’s a slow process and I’m knew at it but slowly over time I hope to amass a col­lec­tion of reviews, tuto­ri­als, and other help­ful tips and tid­bits that will assist read­ers. I guess that would be the real over­all goal of my site now.

Anyways.

Theresa recently bought tick­ets to see Brandi Carlile in con­cert (a birth­day gift for me, which I loved). She played with A Fine Frenzy at the Phoenix on the 9th of Octo­ber (yes­ter­day as of this post). It was an 19+ show which I much prefer. What shocked me was the turn out. There were far more people than I was expect­ing, and of a much more varied age than what I was used to. Either that means I’m get­ting old before my time, or this woman can appeal to a wide crowd. It was a stun­ning show though she never does disappoint.

I was really impressed with the open­ing band “A Fine Frenzy.” I didn’t know what to expect from the three-​piece band headed by Alison Sudol, but they “rocked my socks” as the kids say these days. I bought their CD almost instantly and I’ve been lis­ten­ing to it pretty much non-​stop since. Stay tuned for my first Album Review that will fea­ture them. Pos­si­bly the best 15 dol­lars I’ve spent this year.

As for work, I’ve recently been given an assign­ment with Microsoft Forms Server and InfoPath. I can’t explain for who or what it is for obvi­ous reason. I can say though, that I’m not enjoy­ing it and it’s not works fault at all. I had to recre­ate my form three times because it decided to ran­domly over­write itself with older ver­sions from Share­Point. Don’t know why and couldn’t explain why either. I’m work­ing on a couple projects that I’m look­ing for­ward to that are heavy in brand­ing, which is what I’m trying to really get into. They’re inter­est­ing and if I can talk about any of them I’ll prob­a­bly give ‘em a link here.

I’ve been doing more work on the site to get it where I want it. It’s get­ting closer and I’m almost happy with it func­tion­ally. I added a photos page, which is where all my photos will be pre­sented for public view­ing. Iron­i­cally they have all been taken with Theresa’s camera, but that’s a minor detail. The most recent would be my photos from my almost-​recent trip to Eng­land. As soon as I figure out why some of them can’t gen­er­ate thumb­nails, I’ll be a happy camper. On the plus side, I finally got the flash viewer to work prop­erly so that’s a plus.

Just as an aside…

When I started doing this I was almost expect­ing my cun­ning wit and dry humour to take the Inter­net by storm and I’d be an overnight sen­sa­tion. This was the silly thought process of my youth. I even went so far as to get Google Ads expect­ing them to rake in the dough like… atomic.. dough.. raking machines. Yeah. Over time I real­ized that the Inter­net really doesn’t care about nei­ther me nor my sar­cas­tic wit, dry though it may be. It’s a hum­bling expe­ri­ence to real­ize that there are thou­sands of people out there that are far more impor­tant than you. As a result I rethought my blog-​oriented ideals, and decided instead to simply be helpful.

This has lead to my doing a much increased volume of reviews. I didn’t mean for there to be so many movie reviews in such a small amount of time, but that’s just how my new resolve and life worked in sync to screw with me. In any case, please expect more useful con­tent to come in the future, and less of what’s hap­pen­ing in my own life. I’ll still talk about it, but I figure that fewer posts that con­tain more con­tent will be much more enter­tain­ing than many two-​line posts.

That’s all for now.

Corey sign­ing out.

Good­bye my almost lover,
good­bye my hope­less dream.
I’m trying not to think of you,
can’t you just leave me be?
So long my luck­less romance,
my back is turned on you

A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover