In my case, it was time away. Seriously, I wasn’t in prison or anything people. I merely took a break from blogging. It became an unenjoyable chore, instead of an interesting break from reality.
For a while now, my heading had gone wider than this blog header allowed in its current form. A kind user on one of my favorite websites (www.dslreports.com) informed of this. It wasn’t so much that it wasn’t obvious to me, as it was. However, what it did bring to mind was that in addition to being ugly, it was noticeable to the reader – a distraction. So, it is with this in mind, that I have changed it. Well, not exactly.
You see, I’m not a good web designer. Sure, I can design something half decent. Anything I have done for any of my webpages has been based from a free-for-use-and-modification template that I have reverse engineered to accomplish what I set out to do. With this in mind, I decided it would be best not to edit this WordPress theme (for fear of blowing up the blog). Instead, I sort of gave my blog a new name. It is still “Theories, Predictions, Opinions, Interviews, and other Nonsense”, as shown by the subheader. From a descriptive standpoint, that gets the job done just fine. From a catchy standpoint of a recognizable name, it doesn’t. Hence, the new name of “The Ramblings of a Regular Dude.”
I’ve wanted to change the name for a while, both for style and for content, and now is a good of a time as ever.
The new name is based in part and inspired by the movie The Big Lebowski and the author Hunter S. Thompson.