Drab Day

What a drab day today. It is supposed to be dropping below freezing so that the rain starts freezing and then turns to snow later tonight. Today the weather said there was a high of 40 and a low of 5 with rain/ice/snow throughout.This week off I have had an extremely hard time focusing on much of anything. I sit around, I read rss news, I watch TV. Or i go to school and do endless organization on the photo computer. I forget that I want to read. I want to expand my mind and talents and make my time useful and valuable. So failing that I feel like I am not doing anything with myself and want a change. I wonder if I am confusing the short term reality with the long term feeling? It is true that school starts in a couple days and then the slow crunch will start.Along with my texts for classes I bought a web languages tutorial guide. I would like to learn some web design basics. I was pretty good at coding in high school. I didn’t get very sophisticated, basic and C++. It was one of those things that I felt that if I were to focus I could rock it out of the park, that and Calc. Not knowing Trig killed me in both of those. In the web world I will have some catching up to do if I want to be able to do much at all it seems. The last time I tried my hand at it, it was just HTML, nothing more. The book I got is HTML, CSS and XML. PHP and mySQL will be next.If I’m going to do anything on my own though I will need to improve my design sensibilities. I feel like that will help my photo eye as well. A mentor who really knows this shit would be great.

~ by ajdele on January 29, 2008.