I have come to the realization that I have a really bad habit of procrastinating learning about things that are not yet ‘on fire’ in just about everything I do. It’s the reason for a lot of things in my life being somewhat… well, less than ideal.
In my brief time writing here I’ve already talked about the need to take a deeper dive into WordPress. True to my nature, I’ve procrastinated on really digging in and learning everything I need to know to become a proficient site creator or backend developer for it, and I think that writing that down has – somewhat unexpectedly – given me the motivation to change that.
To that end I’m starting … eh… tomorrow on creating a WordPress theme for JulianVickers.com from scratch, and customizing it to my liking. I’ve NO idea how long this little project will take, and I have not (yet) given myself a deadline on completion. I know that this is a bad idea, but since I’m still in the phase of ‘not knowing what I don’t know’ I’d find it a little hard to competently set a deadline. I’m just going ahead and publicizing the intention now in order to get held to some sort of accountability by a (granted imaginary) reader that can point to this and say “You said this was going to happen!” Why tomorrow? ‘Cause today is Labor Day and I’m under some pretty intense pressure from the fam to do fam things today. Even as I write this I’m having to put pen to paper between ‘Lord of the Rings’ special features!
I’m looking forward to the next chapter in expanding my skills in WordPress, but considering the difficulty with which the tech stuff comes I’m not under any illusions that it’ll be an easy thing for me to absorb. Wish me luck!