I’ve managed to make some updates to my design here.

Firstly, you’ll notice a new gradient effect when you scroll to the top and bottom of the site. That was fun to do, but much more time consuming than I first expected. If you look at the image to the lower left, you’ll see it looks pretty simple. Just some funky mountains, a sun, and some fuzzies. It has two colors: gray and black. Because the background is transparent, when you scroll over the black gradient at the bottom, the black images get hidden while new images appear. I learned the technique from a great website called “CSS-Tricks“.

(I may have forgotten to mention that I’ll be experimenting quite a lot here with CSS!)

Also, I’ve updated the banner image at the top. Now, the picture is of my creation (aside from the grass, which comes from the original graphics provided with the theme by LonelyTree). That funky tree thing was from an ink drawing I did almost 15 years ago. I scanned it, cleaned it up, and smacked it between two hills.

Here I am again – twiddling with Grenga Ma. After more than 10 years with this domain, and after many different versions and purposes, I’ve finally settled on what this tiny little space on the Net will be used for.

As most of you who visit this site know, I am a musician. I’ve been in a few very fun bands over the years, which I’ll certainly talk about. But I’m not playing in bands anymore; instead, I am focused on songwriting and recording. I’ve also done some sketching, writing, and photography, with more to come. Lately, I’ve also been itching to write a novel (or three), so you can expect some thoughts and ideas posted on that subject as well.

Instead of posting all these things on various web pages and in various lists, I thought it better to treat my creative life with a little more attention and respect. Not because I want to be famous (my mom might be the only faithful repeat visitor, you know), but because I feel the need to get it out in an organized way.

I intend to open the time capsule, post old live music, and talk about some of my friendships and musical interests. For those of you who want to follow along, please feel free. Tell me what you think. Contribute.

I will likely also create a page on Facebook and MySpace – just because that’s the cool thing to do these days. Thanks for reading.