Christmas Shopping Redux

Posted by Daniel Stout on Sun 16 Dec 2007 at 1:37 PM

I managed to get most of the Christmas shopping done yesterday. I’ve got a few things to get my nephews and niece, but otherwise it’s pretty much wrapped up, which reminds me that I still have to wrap the gifts. I’m pretty much a speed shopper. I usually have a pretty strong sense right away whether something would make a good gift for someone.

I started out in a bit of haze. I wandered around for about 20 minutes not sure what to get or where to look, but then I got a grip and focused. Once I got my focus on, things went swiftly. I found a couple of perfect gifts – gifts where I don’t think I could find anything better for that person – and some more good gifts, although perhaps not aspiring to that perfect level. I’m still going to write my grandparents a letter, because I think that would be the best thing I could give them this year. They have no need of anything else.

In the meantime, I spent some more time reworking Manufactured Environments. I think I’ve pretty much settled on the new design. I may tweak a few things here and there, but it’s basically done. One thing I noticed was how easy it was to do the redesign. I didn’t redesign every aspect of the blog, but I did some significant reshifting. It worked out pretty since I’m using the new modular template design for Movable Type and the design is basically CSS-driven. There were some places where I needed to tweak the template code, but it wasn’t much.

Tags: christmas shopping · focus · haze

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