"at some point I should have a lot more of my own stuff up", otherwise known as ...

This is supposed to be a place for me to note all those pages I keep claiming I'm going to make "someday", to help jog my memory and so on. And obviously it also goes without saying that a lot of my existing pages also need to be redone and updated.

The other day I started making a page about my backpack. This actually makes more sense than you would think -- describing all the buttons and pins and other decorations on it.

I keep meaning to make a "Mailing lists I have known and loved (or hated)" page about my life in the bush of mailing lists.

You'd think that I should have my own homeschooling page just like everyone else, wouldn't you? Well one day in a burst of enthusiasm I started making a page about homeschooling in Santa Cruz, but got kind of bogged down thinking about talking to all the various ISPs and so on. Maybe I'll get back to it. I also ought to "just like everyone else" put up some of my own mailing-list postings and other writings related to homeschooling.

I should put up a new version of my old page about activism you can do online.

One of these days I should make a page about purple hair.

Ditto for some kind of vegetarian page.

And computer programming.

And singing and drums/drumming.

And my name.

Sometimes it occurs to me to put up a "words I hate" page, but that seems a little much even for me! Here are two of them for a free sample, though: "limits" and "closure".

I did put up some guitar pages, but still have others to make.

I did put up a books page, but should put up more actual reviews one of these days.

I've started working on a page about my hometown of Santa Cruz, California.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away (OK, OK, it was really on the parent-l mailing list) I was going on about how I should make a family-bed page because there didn't seem to be one, and typically, while all I did was talk about it, Bonnie Bedford actually went ahead and did make one. So I bow to her as usual, but I still want to put up my own family-bed page one of these days, with book reviews and links.

I have some pages about Bonnie (you can find links to them on my Blissed-out mother page) but always mean to put up more.

Two other supposed future pages I used to go on about years and years ago were one on having siblings present at birth, and one on breastfeeding while lying down, which I once described as "That eagerly-awaited page on how breastfeeding while laying down lets you spend all day reading, eating truffles, typing on your laptop, ignoring ringing telephones and doorbells, and gazing into your baby's eyes".

Another page I keep meaning to do is one about parenting books and mailing lists (most of which I can't stand).

Being as I've done some pretty fun things for birthday parties (if I do say so myself), and being as Bonnie kept saying she wanted to put up a birthday party page, well ... I think you can guess what I'm thinking here. :-)

One of these days I'll make a silly earrings page to go with my silly hair page.

I ought to learn Java or Flash or Shockwave or whatever so I can put up some little online games.

One of these days I should scan/make an online version of my "My Dog Carmel" picture book, and some of Sam's picture books too.

I should make a Lego page of my own to go with Sam's. We entered some of our Lego creations in the County fair, and Sam got a first place whereas I got a second.

Sam and I should put up a page about his games programming one of these days.

I need to work with Arthur on more pages for him -- right now his are really scanty compared to Sam's.

I should put up a new recipes page for some of the more popular things I make.

One of these days I'm going to put together a kind of anti-housecleaning page, about how I think that much of the current craze to "organize" and "de-clutter" every possible thing is really (among other things) just another way to sell people lots of stuff they don't need, make them think they need to feel guilty about and apologize for yet another big aspect of life, make them feel like their lives need to be under strict control, make them feel like they should apologize for taking up space, make them feel like they need yet another "expert" to tell them what to do, etc. etc.

Here's something I said on my original "Yeah, just what is my home page's excuse for living?!?!" page back in 1995:

Right now I'm new enough to all this to be in the "if you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" frame of mind about it, that is, I either want to find or make a web page for everything I like. There are some organizations, magazines, companies, etc. that I would just love to make web pages for, but (1) I'm really unsure about how I would approach them about it, and (2) I'm always kind of over-extended as it is. Well, hopefully I'll get my act together at some point about this.

Well, that's still true, but an awful lot of those "organizations, magazines, companies" have come up with their own web pages in the meantime after all, oh well ... :-) The closest I've done so far in that vein is to do some web pages for some of the plays put on by A Catch of Shadows, the theater company my son Sam sometimes performs with. Here they are: Gate of the Winds, Beyond the Ash Grove, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fortune's Wheel, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Keys to Camebrien.

I'm sure there were/are a bunch of other pages I've been planning but they're all slipping my mind at the moment, and I should log off and get to work (tm) right now;.

* to be continued *