It’s at Squarespace.

But what to do with Bradtastic? A few of my friends are using WordPress now, and they seem happy with it. I’ve used it for a long time, too, and (mt) hosting is good.

In the meantime, head over to AIS or CARA MoneyCard to check out new insurance offerings and the best checking card available anywhere.

Also, please let me know if you’re looking for HR services or employee manuals.

If you haven’t already, please check it out!

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Some photos from my birthday trip will post soon at Superfluous. I’ll first need to get Stephanie to sync her camera and upload the photos for minor editing (size — high-MP cameras natively take images way too big for the web… or screens, rather!)

If you haven’t yet been to my new personal blog, please take a moment to glance over the back-entries, and a few moments to leave a comment or two (or five). And if you haven’t sent me anything for my birthday, well, there’s a convenient little Amazon Wishlist thing there!

I’m also looking to share friends’ artwork and music, so let me know if you’re looking for extra exposure.

Hope to hear from you!

My newly-created “personal blog” is up, running… incomplete, yes… but I have created my “pilot” post. Hopefully it serves me (and us all!) well.

http://superfloo.us — bookmark it, subscribe to it, do what you do. That’s where my posting is going to happen… “personal” posts, anyway.

I’m not completely sure how and when this site will transition. However, I’m comfortable with having my new blog at Squarespace, and I’m confident that now, because the topics/content is more defined and the audience is likely more narrow, posting frequency will increase. I’ve written many entries that haven’t seen cyber-light because I didn’t have a “proper” place to put ‘em. This blog just isn’t the place for some things.

Also: The “BradLoves Project” exists… it’s out there. If you’re interested it, go there or let me know. Because I’m playing MTG again and am apparently pretty-good at it, I’m writing about the game, too. More on that later.

For now, please check out “Superfluous” and the sub-1000 word first entry there. Until next time… take care.

I’m pretty sure that this has more to do with them, but it’s given me that extra incentive to change things up a bit. Right now, Bradtastic Premier exists as an almost-exclusively personal blog… it’s where people would go to read about my life and its antics, the fun stuff I come across, and to read about what’s new.

This is NOT a business site… yet.

There are a lot of wonderful products and services that I want to share, and it seems silly combining my personal writings with business information on a regular basis. Two separate audiences seems to warrant two separate sites. I don’t want my personal writing obfuscating the deals I want to share with everyone, and I don’t want to bore friends and family with stuff they don’t need, or have heard about many times already.

I’m starting this process… now.

What this means.

In the next few weeks to months, this site will likely move away from its current host, away from WordPress… maybe. Content might will probably get lost, much of it will move. A lot of it is so old, I’ll probably archive it on my own computer and delete it. If there was something on my site that you wanted to check out and haven’t, now’s the time.

Hopefully this change will bring about good things. In the event that it’s a total catastrophe… I’ll fix it. Maybe.

Until then… enjoy Antipresto and Twitter with me.

Artwork created by Bradtastic Brad Chin, 2009. With Spawn Illuminati app on the iPod touch.

Being on the computer hasn’t been so easy for me recently; I haven’t been feeling well, I haven’t been able to sit up and use the computer very much. Long story short — nasty medication side-effects messed me up. Pretty bad.

I haven’t been able to write as much as I’d like; insofar as that effects my abilities I’m not sure, but my spurts feel rather cyclic.

Sometimes there’s so much on my mind, it seems incomprehensible that I’d ever have another moment staring at an empty page or empty lines without remedy. Hours pass as I struggle to maintain composure — my shoulder is agonizing and my body is shaking in pain and anguish. I want to stop writing… I need to stop writing… however, I can’t. I can’t put my pen down; there’s too much on my mind, and I think to myself, “what if I forget something later?” I feel like my day should contain more than twenty-four hours and I curse my pain problem and feel drowsy from the meds. Many hours pass, and eventually, my concentration breaks and I close my eyes for just a moment longer than a blink… I momentarily doze off mid-sentence, followed by a jolt — a startling sensation reminiscent of a myoclonic spasm. I am forced to quit, say to myself “I’m done,” and rest. Dozens of previously blank, untouched pages are now filled with fragments of me. Almost Bradtastic, indeed.

Almost predictably and always disheartening comes a vacuous state full of confusion and compositional nothingness. I can’t seem to write anything. I try to write “I can’t seem to write anything,” and… I can’t! Flabbergasted, I stare at the blank page in disbelief. I flip through previous triumphs of my enduring spirit… I read my previous descriptions of my desire for more time and energy to continue writing — it hurts. A lot.

Welcome to the rougher side. Part of my life.

My life is a lot of pain. Though my situation is seemingly redundant — as are my complaints of pain — it’s impossible to become accustomed or acclimated to the condition. It’s never routine or regular. Constant physical pain is torture. Insidious.

Fortunately, I have family, faith… help. I’ll get through it, and have some stories to share. Eventually, the bright skies darken and I can think clearly again. Night falls, and for me, that’s good news. I reawaken.

And now…

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Apple’s mobile-Safari displays emojis, Japanese Keyboard emoticons.

(- tiger)
(- French Fries)

They’re nifty… and cute — but limited to two device types, one OS type. And then there’s content, layout and theme. Because the touch keyboard is awkward and sometimes-sluggish, long entries aren’t easy to compose. A template designed for handhelds won’t display properly on a large screen. My mobile ramblings are tangential, and are likely interesting to my close friends and followers only.

I’m fond of my low-res photography, too. I’ve also got some iPhone art to share, made with the “Brushes” app.

I really wish I could get Canteo Classeur notebooks. If you find them for me, you’ll be my top-tier hero. Second-tier available for anyone capable of sending me some medium size, lined and unlined Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks.

I have interesting stuff to share later. Until then…

I think most of you will like my new projects.

If you: use Microsoft Word or Notepad for writing or notetaking, can’t seem to get a decent pen for under $5, get stage-fright or just “don’t know what to say” to those beautiful strangers you’d like to take out and take home, think American culture is in the gutters, know our education and penal systems are massive failures, and/or if you don’t know how to defend yourself against a knife attack — you will enjoy and benefit from my new stuff.

I’m also posting a password protected entry soon. It’s on social theory; if you’d like the password, leave a comment with a valid email address.

Until then… <3B

I wrote this post using iBlogger, made by illumineX. It’s the best blogging app for the iPhone or iTouch (iPod touch). More on that soon! Photo edited with CameraBag.