So I’m probably more excited than I should be. Golf GPS Systems is live, finally!

It’s my first attempt at an IPK site and it too me way longer than it should have to get done. I probably shouldn’t be surprised, because it always takes me longer to do things that I think it should. There’s a lot of self-sabotage goin’ on here, and that’s one of the reasons I’m recording my progress over this month — to force myself to actually finish things and show proof that they’re finished.

Anyways, back to the golf gps site. The good news is I turned off the maintenance mode at about 4 p.m. this afternoon, and when I just checked a few minutes ago, the googlebot had already been to visit.

The bad news is that when I searched for my keywords, they didn’t come up within the first 50 yet. I’ll be checking again tomorrow and may have to do some tweaking to the pages to make sure I’ve got everything that the course suggests.

Looking ahead, I’ve got another couple of sites ready to start and I’m confident that they’ll go a lot quicker. I love doing them in wordpress, but I may try one with the static site outline just to see if that makes a difference. And if it does, I just may get really creative and make myself a wordpress theme that looks similar to the static pages.

On the plate for tomorrow as well is to get my report on creativity finished, and to get a new issue of The Acorn Stash out. But for now, I’m callin’ it quits tonight.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!

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I hate to say it, but all the running around I’ve done this week caught up with me today. I was so tired by the time I got home from running errands this morning that all I could do was rest this afternoon. I didn’t even get started working on anything until about 9:30 tonight. So for today all I have accomplished is about 2/3 of the final page for my first IPK site.

The good news is that there is absolutely nowhere I have to be tomorrow, and so I will be spending the day getting caught up.

Thanks for being here!

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It was another one of those days today. It’s shaping up to be one of those weeks where I don’t get a whole day to sit and do nothing but write.

Monday it was the annual stress test. Tuesday it was shopping with my boy, and while I love spending time with him, by the time he was done dragging me all over the city to check out bikes and sport shoes and all manner of other things 20-something young men like, I was wiped out and ready to sleep for a week! Today it was the eye doctor that took me out of work mode for most of the day.

I think I can breathe tomorrow. I have one errand to run in the morning, and other than that I’m not doin’ nuthin’ for nobody that doesn’t involve a yellow legal pad, and my favorite pen! In fact, if it’s a nice day (it’s raining right now) I might even take said pad and pen and park myself at the riverside cafe for the morning and work there where I can’t be interrupted.

I did finally get to start writing around 6 p.m. tonight and I worked straight through until about 10:30 with just a short break to eat dinner. I ended up shutting myself away at the writing desk in my room — away from the computer, and the tv, and all the other distractions like kid and dog. I’m actually working on a product about creativity, and I got about half the first draft written. I had hoped to get the whole thing done before I had to stop and write this post, but that was probably a little unrealistic on my part. It will be interesting to see how much more I get done tomorrow when I know I don’t have to stop and run all over the city.

That’s it for me tonight. I think I might go back in the other room and see if I can’t get the first draft finished before calling it a night.

Thanks for being here!

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