Building a Website is Hard Work

The hardest part about building a website is suppressing the urge to add a video called "warning loud monkey fartsound" on the home page. The second hardest part of building a website is deciding on the opacity for the grain animation I spent 6 hours getting to work, while the third hardest part is getting you to notice it.

I have no clue what this whole site is supposed to be or do, or what it'll look like a month from now, but I spent like 50 bucks on the domain and website builder, so it's gonna do something. I'm hoping it'll feel like a game where I have to keep being creative and sharpening my skills so I can replace the weakest link on this portfolio, but I'm starting to grow attached to the current state of 40 images of a dog wearing glasses. The blog section of this website is just going to be yet another outlet for my big mouth; lord knows I needed another one. The newsletter option it gives me is really funny, though. Who the hell wants me in there? Someone will, eventually, which is even funnier.

It's been about a week since I 'bricked' my phone in hopes of turning my brain-rotted life around, and since then I have bought the Fortnite battle pass, read The Alchemist, and gotten this site to run. I miss Instagram, I miss reels, and I really miss posting on bagtalk. I guess this is just bagtalk again, but longer and permanent. I really am one skin shade away from starting a podcast analyzing Lou Reed lyrics on an armchair with a boom arm looming over me.

I wonder if 10 years down the line, when I'm 6 months from turning 30, either shaking a tin cup at Trader Joe's customers or running for mayor of Chicago, this will still be up. I hope so. It's the 21st century, and the modern age of archiving is bagtalk. Everyone who follows bagtalk will be handsomely rewarded someday. I love all my day ones, and I hope our kids trade Pokémon cards someday.

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