I have to admit that I work way too much. I really don’t think I can escape it either. Between a full-time job (building websites), HomeSkillet Records, and a roster of freelance clients, there really isn’t time for rest and relaxation. Add Toula the Pitbull, Jesus the Cat, and D (the girlfriend), into the mix and there isn’t time for much else.

Eventually I will have to split with the freelance, or split with the full-time job. For now, I have to come up with a way to stop being so busy. To my friends who have known me for years, it’s a rare occasion anymore, when I actually show up to an event, or do something at the spur of the moment. It’s not that I plan, because I am terrible at planning, it’s that I am either assumed to be busy, or can’t give up any free time because I immediatley try to fill it with more work. Usually yard work, or brainstorming up new projects (Type A, with a flare for chaos).

Enter this weekend (Pictures in my flickr feed), I actually hung out and stayed out…
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At some point in the last few months, I decided it was time to start redesigning my portfolio. It was a combination of my old one never really being finished, and the fact I was starting to get more traffic from a few of my freelance projects around the web. When users (and myself) clicked through to my portfolio, it was a downgrade to most of the work that they were clicking from. Not a good thing.

So I began rethinking exactly what I wanted my portfolio to be. I started wondering whether or not I wanted just a portfolio, or if I wanted more than that.

In the end, I decided I needed to sell my brand, which isn’t just what I have done, but is who I am and how I work.
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