I won’t be answering emails or contacts while I’m gone, so anything sent in will have to wait until I’m back at my desk in a few days.

Have a good time!

I’m going to try and start doing some work today on a limited basis to see how it goes. I know I have quite a few people waiting on my return and I’m sorry if you have to wait a bit longer while I try to get back into the swing of things. I’ll be contacting those that have waited the longest and go from there! I’ll try to get caught up as soon as possilbe.

Thanks everyone for the well wishes, much appreciated!!

I know how it happened too, I was working out at the gym the morning of the day I noticed it. It doesn’t hurt much, just a bit sensitive but there’s the danger of an internal infection if I don’t get it fixed right away. It couldn’t hardly come at a worse time since I’m so backed up with blog design requests right now. Actually, when would it be a good time? LOL And this is after my doctors have urged me to get more exercise and lose a few pounds. This what I get for listening to doctors? I think it was all part of their evil plan to operate on me again. LOL

For the time being I won’t be taking on any new orders and I will try to finish up a couple that I’m currently working on before the day of the surgery. I’m not sure how I’ll be feeling and how much work I’ll be able to do, but I do know I can’t do any “physical” activity for at least 6 weeks afterwards to give it time to heal.

I’ll do an update here once I’m back at my desk full time again, until then wish me luck!

My old machine was one that I assembled about 6 years ago and a lot has changed since then so I had a bit of a learning curve with the new technologies available. The old one was pretty much state of the art back then which in computer years means it is now a dinosaur and can barely keep up with today’s programs. Again, I decided to build one that was as fast and powerful as possible with currently available hardware.

I opted for another AMD processor, this one running at an amazing 6000+ mhz with 2 gigs of memory, dual processors and a large, very fast SATA 2 hard drive on an ASUS motherboard. My old machine was taking almost half a minute to open Photoshop CS2, this new machine opens that same program in about 2 seconds flat! Needless to say I’m very impressed! And I have over triple the storage space.

As I said though, things don’t always go smoothly. I ordered all the components online and had to wait several days for them to arrive. As it turns out the first motherboard was dead on arrival, and after spending a couple of hours assembling it into the case it would not boot up! At first I didn’t know it was the motherboard, it took a couple more hours of troubleshooting to pinpoint the cause. I ended up having to RMA the dead board back to the supplier but I couldn’t wait two weeks for them to send another.

So, I bit the bullet and bought another one from a local store. It cost more money but it works! So I’m happy, but now I’m having fun transferring everything over from the old machine to the new one. Not really, I find that part tedious and painstaking but I’m back up and running at nearly full speed again.

As many of you know I’m somewhat backlogged in orders right now and I’ve fallen behind with a few of my customers. I’m trying to get caught up and I appreciate your understanding! I would like to thank everyone for their patience while I get back in the groove with the new PC!

Have a great weekend!!

Actually, I know it’s the industry norm to require money in advance so it’s not out of the ordinary to require it. But, I hate having to ask my customers to do two separate payments for their order when one should suffice. If you have any questions please read over the FAQ’s page and for any questions not answered there, feel free to email me using the link in the sidebar.

I appreciate your understanding in this matter and as always, I want to thank all my great customers!

I’m loving the new house though, it’s turned out to be a great place to work and it’s very comfortable and quiet. I’ve known for some time now that I’ve not been getting enough exercise so I joined a local fitness center to fix that. It’s really very nice and it has an indoor pool and every kind of exercise machine you can think of. I started out with a three month membership and after one week I’m starting to think I should have just popped for a full year. If you pay the full yearly fee upfront, you get a nice discount. I’m enjoying the workouts, I know I already feel better after getting some decent exercise for a change! Sitting at a desk, writing code and editing images all day long, every day is bad for your health! Before you know it your weight has creeped up, out of control and you start feeling lazy!

One of my tasks coming up is a new theme for this site, I’m not very satisfied with the current blue and white. I’ve started on a couple of new layouts for it and ended up scrapping them because they just weren’t “right”. Oh well, I’ll just keep playing with it until I like it!

That’s all I’ve got for today. Thanks for stopping by and many thanks to all my cool customers!

I look forward to further serving your needs and those of future clients as well. I’m planning on this being a positive move for Blogs Gone Wild in general because I’ll have more space in a more private location where I’ll be free from most daily interruptions.

Thanks again!

I was also witness to the grand opening of Justin Timberlake’s new restaurant called Southern Hospitality on 2nd Ave. Complete with red carpet, celebrity limo arrivals, paparazzi, and a lot of his screaming female fans. I was even there for the steam pipe explosion last week and in fact walked down that very street near Grand Central Station just the night before. That’s almost a close call!

Now I’m ready and anxious to get back to work. I still have a few things to do on the website makeover, I’ll be tweaking it in the coming weeks, what do you think so far? Let me know if you spot any problems, errors or broken links! Running the entire site in Wordpress will certainly simplify the next redesign. You just can’t beat Wordpress for useability!

I was happy to see that I had several orders and inquirys in my inbox while I was away, now I get to roll up my sleeves and start writing!

Thanks for stopping by and please leave a comment to say hello! I’m friendly and I won’t bite! I promise! =)

I’m really looking forward to this trip, I’ll be flying to Texas to meet my best friend and from there we’ll be driving 1,500 miles to Manhattan, NY. We’ll be stopping along the way to meet a couple of blogging friends. How cool is that? Once there I’ll get to stay for a few days and do some exploring, hanging out, dining out, and maybe a little shopping. I love NY, it’s always a great visit, there’s so much to do!

Anyway, see you guys when I get back! Try not to miss me too much! LOL