The end of summer
Loosing touch
I sometimes must remind myself that redswish is my personal blog as well as a web design resource. Maybe that’s not the best idea, to combine both. But I wouldn’t post often enough on my personal life to maintain a solely self-centred blog alongside a contributing online design resource. Alas, this is the beauty of the internet in that I can balance both.
I feel like I’ve been lacking the personal touch recently in an order to obtain more traffic, striving to provide solely web-related information and tools in an attempt to coerce new visitors to the site, and indeed to keep current ones interested. But why? I earn no money from this blog, I have no intention to (yet!). I write because I enjoy it, I love getting comments back from readers, regardless of whether they’re positive or negative, and I love it when something I’ve wrote has directly affected someone else. That’s the buzz I get from blogging. So, kind readers, please indulge me while I sum up my summer with little regard for whether you care or not.
How time flies
Indeed. The past few months have indeed wizzed by, perhaps because I’ve been busy, or perhaps because I’ve not been paying attention. On June 9th I started my first real, real job at Flame Digital in Manchester. I stress ‘real’ because it’s my first occupation that involves a career, a future. And it’s been great, not a bad move for a self-taught 18 year old. Things are flowing at Flame, while I’ve slowly been trying to whittle down my freelance work for there are only so many hours in the day and days in the week. And that’s enough about web design!
An explosion of cash from obtaining a sturdy full-time job has sent me dizzy spending money. In less than 2 months I’ve bought a 24″ iMac (and don’t regret a single penny), an iPhone and a new car. And new shoes, clothes, dvds and lots and lots of drunken nights out. I’m not bragging, a still have the constraining ‘luxury’ of living with my parents so I’m making the most of it while I can.
To cut to the end of summer, because I have to admit that the previous 3 months have been as ‘un-summerly’ as they come in Manchester, the highlight of August has been Leeds Festival, to which I attended last weekend. It did not dissapoint.
I’ve, rather dirtily, kept last years wristband on my wrist for a full 365 days. The are several reasons I did this, regardless of which by last November I’d forgot it was even there. However with this years golden edition, 2 strips dangling of my arm seemed like enough, and I felt it was time to cut them off, thus they are not tied around my bedpost.
I struggle to remember all the acts I actually saw at the festival, surely this is due to the large quantities of alcohol consumed over a 4-day period. But immediately springing to mind are the incredible Rage Against the Machine, whose performance rivaled pretty much any other band I’ve ever seen. A close second was Justice, rocking out the Radio 1 stage with their grungy electro. I also had the great delight of checking out Tenacious D, Digitalism, Feeder, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mystery Jets, Biffy Clyro, Taking Back Sunday and was passively entertained by Serj Tankian, Dizzee Rascal and Avenged Sevenfold. Looking back, as many bands as I saw, I’m a bit miffed I missed The Killers, Editors, We Are Scientists, Vampire Weekend, Crystal Castles and CSS. Oh well, I still had a top time.
So, not the most eventful summer
And that brings us to this week. I’m saving my holidaying for a decent trip around Europe in November, for which I can’t wait. I’ve not been skydiving again, or bungee jumping or hovercrafting or travelled to South Africa or done many things which I hoped I would, which is slightly depressing. But there’s still plenty of time. Plans change, you just have roll with what life gives you at times.
Speak to you again soon. More boring web-related articles coming this week, so stay tuned.
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