Bradtastic Premier

Recently, some people have visited my personal blog here, and left confused.

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.

 

Merry Christmas. Seriously.

I frequently joke about many things… but this, especially this year, with what’s going on all around the world and here at home, the state of the economy and state of the Union… enjoy this time with friends and family. Enjoy the time off. Do something new. Explore.

Whatever it is about this time of year that makes us set-aside differences, come together and be happy, let’s try and hang onto that. Let’s strive for better relationships all of the time—year’round—life is too short to need a holiday for an excuse to be happy.

Much love and special thanks to my family, friends and supporters. The following are some little messages to important people. It’s my Christmas version of Thanksgiving, sans Turkey and pilgrim stuff.

Continue reading ‘Christmas Morning’

It’s been an amazing two weeks.

A lot has happened… too much to cover, really. If you were there to witness and share in it, grats. It’s been something pretty-damned-great! Who knows… perhaps there’s just gunna be more of this?! That’d be grand.

I’ve talked a little bit about Pownce going “buh bye…” (at least one of these links—if not both—will be down after December 15) and I’ve had a lot of different feelings about it, “not caring” not amongst ‘em. I’m not even sure why I care so much about a relatively-unpopular microblogging and sharing service… it’s not like I was ever a Leah-fanboy. In fact, I didn’t even follow her stuff until just last week.

However, over the past year, I’d been using Pownce for three very-important things: large file sharing, badass music sharing (oh yeah!) and social-links-organization. One of the lesser-known (awesome) features of Pownce is the “Other Profiles” tab; although Pownce didn’t have all of the social networks, it has all of the majors, and I’d found many cool services and sites from searching the list. My Pownce is was a great single URL I could share with family, friends and contacts to share (almost) all of my profiles.

I’m sad to see the service go, but all isn’t lost—I’ve imported my content to my VOX blog—and I’ve started to re-list my profiles there, too. Thanks to Maddy, I’ve added Retaggr as well… and it’s posted at my Tumblr for everyone’s convenience (especially mine)!

This weekend should be pretty-damned cool, too.

I’m excited. I’m going to write. I’m going to design. I’m going to illustrate and paint. I’m going to take some photos, blog and post some web content. I’m redesigning the Bradtastic brand… and several others as well. I’m going to email friends, catch-up with important people, and help the “holiday spirit” flourish as it should. I’m going to get better. I’m going to be better.

And just so y’all know… Stephanie is great. She’s absolutely great. She makes me really happy.

Today marks seven years after a national tragedy… and God bless us, we haven’t been hit again, since. I think far too many people dismiss and overlook the real threat that radical Islam presents to us, America and other free nations and peoples, all over the world. Europe has since been attacked. Many thanks to the brave men and women overseas, putting their lives on the line… and I want to mention that I truly admire the brave men of the 82nd, over in Afghanistan, willing to drive Hummers at a snail’s pace to draw Taliban gunfire to them, and away from the ANA and Afghan nationals.

 

It’s almost my birthday, and while it has been an eventful year, it’s also been a trying, hard and somewhat lackluster year for yours-truly. No longer reeling from my Grandmother’s death on a daily-basis, I look forward to figuring out the first parts of my “true” adult life, and I’ve been fortunate to have the time to think it through.

A lot of analysis, thinking and soul-searching took place before this post; it wasn’t out of anticipation or preparation to blog something big, life just gave me an opportunity and I took it. I’ve made some changes, I’ve been on-and-off sick, still struggling with Stage 2 Hypertension and medication issues… but things aren’t all bad.

I’m lucky. I have great people in my life.

I’ve met some extraordinary women…

I wouldn’t be who I am without ‘em. I think relationships are the greatest treasure, beyond assets, and therefor, this human-connection means so much to me. I let my life play out more publicly and openly than most… I don’t necessarily encourage others to do the same, but I hope it does help to open new lines of communication and encourage honesty.

I love Tennis and I miss playing the game; I’ve been thinking about restringing one of my racquets and hitting against a ball machine just to get the feel of it (and to see if I can). I have a few friends (and a great US Open) to thank for the inspiration to try. I’m playing pool a little bit more, and I’d like to get my own table someday soon. I’ve been open and honest about my politics, drug use, sex life and interests… hoping in-part that this free-communication will make the taboo a little more approachable. I’ve been trading the gadgets and electronics for fountain pen and paper, I regained some hand-control after losing the necessary coordination to perform all of the magic that I’d like… this energy and chaos is fueling my art (mostly inkwork) that I hope will one-day, someday soon, inspire tattoos for my left shoulder and beyond.

 

I don’t have all of the answers, but I like to help. I like to share, even when it’s all random stuff. Everyone has something to complain about… so I offer: get out and do, enjoy, and make life grand. Don’t waste time worrying about the wrong stuff, be thankful for the right stuff, and try to take responsibility for as much of life as possible.

I sleep during the daylight (usually), and I’m awake for the quiet, the clarity of night. The sky is filled with opportunity, and my dreams are as grand and as lively as ever (some people might blame opioid analgesics). Reality binds us all. Control goes to those who take it… and dreamers… well, I can assure you, aren’t so bothered by rising gas prices or burdened by others’ failures. Life is just too good’n’short for that.

I’m excited for this weekend, next, and the 16th. Righ’now ain’t bad!

Stay positive, honest and informed, and you can be ‘tastic, too.

I’VE BEEN ILL OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS; unfortunately (for me), the world doesn’t stop nor slow-down simply because I’m feeling the wrath of sickness, the side-effects of narcotics, and the endless-pains of the semi-crippled.

However, because of my illness, I haven’t been able to setup this website as I’d been chatting about at my Twitter and such. Rest assured, I’m currently working on making the updates, upgrades and changes that will make this website a reasonable-replacement for all of the Bradtastics sites and group-pages. I might even link a new, better forum someday soon.

How to get the latest news and “art of impression” tips…

…is really quite-simple. A few days ago (after weeks of Twitter-bugginess and bad-service) I caught chatter about a new service called Plurk. Interesting name, great service. Getting into the action is simple. Finding people at Plurk, well, isn’t.

But all you have to do is click here to join Plurk and follow me.

And leave a comment to let me know how much you care. Who knows, perhaps it may even make me feel better. (Even though standard diagnostic medicine may disagree.)