The fact is that most of us do pursue a lifestyle rather than following our passions. I did it without even realizing it. Of course, my lifestyle choice was stability for my family. But along the way that also included a big house, two cars, big screen TVs, game systems, and all the usual trappings of a modern, 21st century American lifestyle. And I sought out jobs that afforded me those comforts.

I’ve always said that I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. But that might be a lie I’ve told myself for the last twenty years. That’s a hard truth, isn’t it? That you’ve been lying to yourself for two decades.

I love writing. And I love comedy. I enjoy design and, to a lesser extent, programming. I crave learning new things. It’s that craving that’s let me park my career in idle for the whole of my 30s because my jobs have required me to constantly learn new things. I’ve reached a point though where that’s just not enough anymore.

What does that mean? I don’t know. Addiction to a lifestyle is like any other addiction. The first step is to admit that you have a problem. That’s all this is. Me admitting that I have a problem. I don’t know what comes next.

The site runs on WordPress and I built a Twentyeleven child theme. The Twentyeleven framework did most of the heavy lifting on the responsiveness.

I had some fun with the typography. All open source or free. I’m using Lobster for the logo text, League Gothic for the main navigation, Ostrich Bold for the sidebar section titles, Museo Slab for titles, and Museo Sans for body copy. The design has only two images: the logo and the picture of me in the bottom left corner. I’m sure That’ll probably change, but not much.

Since this was launched in very little time and with very little sleep and during the distractions of SXSW, it wasn’t fully browser tested. It’s probably horribly broken in a dozen different ways. If you see something broken, please leave me a comment letting me know about it, because that is the path to good karma and enlightenment.