New Look, Same Crazy Person#

I’ve redone my entire portfolio website, created a new bio page, and am in the process of redoing my music website. Astro has been incredible and it’s made this entire thing so much easier - and so much cheaper. Instead of paying for hosting, I’m simply paying for this domain, which means I can worry less about money and more about doing the stuff I love (like music, photography, coidng - ok, this may be a problem)

This website (and my music blog) was built with Fuwari!

Oh, and for more on everything I’ve changed, I’ve pushed that off to a separate post.

oh my god, a new podcast#

I’ve been aiming to get back to doing a podcast - one shorter, so much easier, and something that I can also listen to on the weekends. I teamed up with Vian Vera and created Here’s a Minute, a podcast with creative writing prompts and fun facts in a minute or two. It’s been going great - except for the fact that we haven’t been able to come up with some family-friendly fun facts about Edgar Allen Poe. The guy’s a monster.

more music?#

I have yet to reveal the specifics, but ever since I finished a school project involving music, singing, and a really cruddy storyline, I’ve been wanting to put it out to the world. It’s not quite ready yet, but here’s a sneak peek at what I’ve been working on.

robots.#

The robotics team at our school is finally kicking into gear - and I’m the one leading our business team into a dark cave without a clue where I’m going. I’m also very tired of trying to teach about how to use WordPress - it’s very slow and I’m so much more used to typing into VSCode to write blog posts now.

Considering that we’re about to enter the season, maybe an entire rewrite of the website isn’t a great idea - but screw it. I’m planning on rewriting our entire website in Astro just because the speeds and downtime we’re getting is unacceptable.

Also, I really don’t like the beef between WPEngine and WordPress.com. Thank god I migrated earlier this year.

curtain lorimer returns#

So I’ve been meaning to do a bunch of projects for a while now. I’m almost at the end of the tunnel, but there’s still so many more projects I want to get done. And there’s so many more projects that I want to do with other people before I say goodbye.

Enter the return of Curtain Lorimer. It’s an incubator for ideas made by me, and hopefully friends of mine. We’re all very creative, talented, and cunning, and we’re all able to help out each other with our little side projects. A touch of tech support here, a dash of writing and acting here, etc.

I’m aiming for this to become sort of a collective. Only time will tell what happens, but I’ve started the ball.

Closing Notes#

It’s been so long since I’ve written a proper blog post. And I hope it won’t be the last time I forget about this. School has been so busy, my life is constantly tied up in musical ventures (jazz, percussion, choir, band), and yet I still have the energy to keep moving.

We’ve all got a few stories we want to tell. Share them out. After all, there’s no such thing as a bad story - just a lesson to learn.