Hello all!

Last week I went to Frederick to visit an old friend. It was great (their library? Two stories. With a circular stair case). It’s about an hour away from where I live, so when I woke up the next morning and realized I had left my wallet in my friend’s car . . . . Yeah, it’s been exactly seven days since then, but I’m still feeling really behind.

So I thought, instead of spending two hours making a post about Fredrick I’ll stall by introducing DecoGear! This is actuallly a post I’ve been looking forward to for a while now (read: two weeks). You know that the final plan for PM is for it to showcase all the various aspects of life. As I was planning this site I realized that one of these aspects would have to be my geeky side.

Now, I’m not really a geek. I’m more like a wannabe nerd. My mom is a trekkie and my dad is an engineer and between that (and their love for reading) I really couldn’t help but fall in love with geek culture.

But I’m not a geek. Honest.

Geekdom takes a level of commitment to obsession that I just can’t reach. I’m  a dabbler, remember? Still, for all that, I do partake in a lot of seemingly geeky activities, and said acts must be documented. So when I complain update you all on the progress of this website, or feel like sharing an interesting fact from my Japanese study, I’ll be doing that here. Here at DecoGear (and yes, I already have a logo for that).

That being said, my next step for turning this blank canvas into something is to research The Loop, WordPress’s mysterious post-code-thing. Once I can figure out how to get the front page to actually look like something (sorry, it’s been blank for a while now, hasn’t it?) then I’ll work on the individual category pages, the banners, and (of course) the problems I’ve been having getting my shadows and things to show up in Safari (I’ve been tweaking code with Firefox’s Firebug, but Safari is my home browser). Buckle in guys, this is going to be quite the trip.