A return to simplicity (mostly)

Frequent visitors may notice I've redecorated a little bit around here. I wasn't feeling very satisfied with the theme I had going on, and was feeling substantial amounts of envy toward the frankly stunning websites that I see some people on Bear and beyond making from scratch. I don't have a particularly strong eye for design, nor sufficient enough time that I can spend hacking away at CSS, JS, and HTML to craft a beautiful page. So I decided to switch (with a couple of small tweaks) to using one of the basic themes offered by Bear. It's clean and simple, and I think far more readable than the half-baked colourscheme I was working with previously. There's something surprisingly freeing about knowing that I have an almost entirely default setup now, and am not risking things going wrong unexpectedly. There's a small degree of resignation to it, but it's tinged with self-forgiveness. I still know I'm a technical person, and a creative one. Just that my creativity and my technicality…

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