So Mother's Day is coming up, and with my particular skillset that means it's time to make my wife some gift art. I'm VERY proud of how it came out, so I thought I'd go ahead and post it here. I put it over to the left there as the thumbnail, and I'll have it larger in the full post below! [...]

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Not a lot to post this time, just wanted to write up a little something to stay in the habit after an almost month long break.

Feeling pretty good about my progress so far, I'm touching up a lot of my old pages, building better habits, using LinkedIn more (if you're here from there, welcome! I'm improving the site I promise), and I generally feel like I'm on the right track. [...]

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Alright, got a second one of these up. Keeping it going! I've got a couple different things I want to write about tonight, first one long term and second kinda miscellaneous.

So Right now I'm writing these posts manually. This text isn't even in <p> tags - I'm just sending it out fresh I guess! That's probably a mistake. One I can fix later, though!

But in all seriousness, I'd like to long term make this a completely functional site like livejournal or such. The login feature to the [...]

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I'm Brandon Watson and at the time of writing, this site is very inprogress! I'll put a screenshot in here later for posterity, because this site will DEFINITELY have undergone some upgrades since this first post. Maybe it's 2030 when you're reading this, my kid is 10, his school is going great, and I've been working for you for 5, 6 years now! Sounds pretty good to me.

Anyway, I'm gonna put the cut here on the preview and put that screenshot down and get to some serious talking. [...]

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This post is a testing ground. It is where bad code goes to die. If there is a problem in the code that is displaying this post, I shall find it, and I shall crush it. I will not fear the cringe of my placeholder stuff, because no one is even supposed to see this. Whatever man.

I can even see what happens if I try to put a line break within a div - of course, that's a gimme, and the line above this paragraph should just be a lil break in the text, but I am a lowly human programmer and I am, myself, imperfect, and I have rewritten this silly placeholder stuff at least three times. Working on it though!

This is looking a bit wide... I should put a picture to the left or right to add some more visual interest to the page, and narrow down this text field. I'll set a default image in case I just ain't feelin' it, but it might be a fun exercise to make a doodle for every post. Maybe even a quick reference of every image in the post to the left, below the main focus image? Hey who knows.

This IS supposed to be a preview of a full post, though. Let's just put some dots down and [...]

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