Cam I Am

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve got another website that I sell custom-made wood growth charts.  I’ve had it for about a year, and while it doesn’t generate a lot of traffic or sales, it’s there. 

When I first made www.camscrafts.com, I used FrontPage to create it.  FrontPage isn’t that great of a program, but it got the job done.  While I wasn’t overly happy with how it worked (or didn’t work), it was at least something.  After a month of using the site I created, a friend of my offered to make up a new one for me, using his Mac.  I think it was a matter of 30 minutes, and he had designed the current site that is there.  It looks great!  I love the graphics and the friendly look to it.  And for the last year, it’s worked well for me.

Now, I don’t do a lot of promoting of the site, but I was going to start advertising it a little more.  I realized that I don’t have a gallery of pictures that show some of the work I’ve done in the last year.  So tonight, I tried to add in a gallery page.

This is when I started to run into problems.

I don’t have a Mac..  FrontPage doesn’t seem to play well with others!  I couldn’t incorporate a gallery page into my site because FP wanted me to have a FP-made page attached to the site. 

Now, the obvious answer is that I should buy a Mac (to save you from saying it, my next computer will be a Mac!  And you know who you are!)  All kidding aside, it seems that in order to avoid bothering my friend everytime I want to change my site or something, I will need to create a new one, once again in FrontPage.  So I tried tonight to re-create the current one in FP..

I might as well try building a particle accelerater out of a hamster wheel and an elastic band.  I probably would have more luck!  No matter what I do, FP just isn’t as versitile as the program on the Mac that was used.  I can’t get text over a picture without it trying to convert the picture to a GIF..

So, I will rebuild my site using FP and then attempt to teach myself HTML to tweak it the way I want..  Although, I am thinking about the CSS route..

Oh well..  for tonight, no new changes..

On October 29th, I had my final appeal with WCB.  With a slim chance of having a decision in my favour at this point, I had accepted that the matter was essentially over.

Until today…

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A couple days ago, I was chatting with a co-worker who lives near me. We were talking about how much time we spend commuting.. Then we started doing some quick math..

It seems that I spend 22 days of the year driving to and from work. This doesn’t include the driving I do DURING the workday, just getting to and from the office. I have to admit that I was amazed that I waste that much time in a year.

I’m kind of curious about the amount of time I waste waiting for elevators..

So.. how much time do you spend driving in a year?