Recently I have been spending some time in brushing up the looks of my blog. It is sure a recreational activity for me. Although the recreation sometimes does overlap with my work time. And then I have to punish myself (cough). The whole process generally begins with one small thing somewhere that catches my fancy like maybe the background color of the blog title. For example, let's say I don't like the grey color because it makes the blog look really dull. Hence, I begin the process of changing the background to something brighter. And that's how it starts.
So, I google for images that would suit my current blog-aesthetics and am elated to find one. Then begins the process of adjusting the template code. Nothing very technical, just change the font-color or background-image url etc. This is followed by checking the preview. The new title background definitely looks brighter and improves the blog's looks, but now the title font-color does not match the title background anymore. So, various combinations are tried which eventually do not remain restricted to the color of the font but also the type of font. At times I also get caught in the flow of creativity (cough cough) and suddenly remember a beautiful font I saw somehwere (which I now want to include in my blog). So, back to googling again.
In fact, this reminds me of my childhood when I would go for shopping, (say to buy shoes) often with a very fixed fantasized image in mind. Would have got the idea perhaps from some movie or magazine. Then in the market I would look for those specific designs and obviously never get what I wanted. The shopkeeper and my parents would try hard to allure me into some other beautiful styles but I would not budge even by an inch. And so another day would be planned for my shopping (this time with some prior instructions and warnings )and I would eventually agree to settle for something. In my later years though, I was encouraged to go for shopping alone. The reasons were never talked about but both parties knew that it was a mutual understanding of no brain racking for them, and total freedom for me. And since then I have enjoyed my singular all-by-myself shopping escapades thoroughly.
Back to topic. Obviously, after spending like 20-30 minutes for some font and being unsuccessful, I give it up and settle for less and decide that's it. No more time on the blog. But when I see the final look of the blog, it still pinches me. So, I decide to start from scratch again. After all there should be some value add for the time lost (cough). With that excuse the timelines get extended again. And this continues till I have wasted enough time and just decide that I have to quit. End of story.
A more regular scenario though, is that I have wasted so much time that the time that is left is no more valuable and so the best choice is to continue what I have been doing. At least be productive in some thing is the bottom-line then. The worst case happens when I decide to blog about it, like now. Then it becomes something on the lines of an extended vacation. The good part being that it completes the process and after that there is really nothing left to do. In short this whole thing is almost an addiction. Just like deciding to take only one peg of whisky in the beginning and then getting tempted to take just a little more and then just a little more more until you and the bottle become one. Whew!
ps: I have changed the title of my blog to Of bamboo and elephant grass. Just got bored of the old one. That's in fact another reason why I indulge in this blog changing thingy. I get bored of things easily. Hopefully, I am going to stick with this look for some time.
