Author: LadyCygnet

If you’ve visited my website, www.ladcygnet.com, you’ve noticed that I’m adding stuff as I go.  I feel kind of like I’ve moved into a bunker, and I’m chiseling away at the surrounding bedrock to create more rooms.  I hate asking for help, but it’s been so long since I’ve built a website of my own that I’m very, very rusty.  I feel something like the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz.  I’m using the free sitebuilder software that came with my webhosting package, but to be frank, I’m not sure if it’s making my objectives easier or more difficult to achieve.

While I wanted to do this all on my own, I may have to break down and let my boyfriend  (who has experience in programming and network administration and can throw together pretty nice-looking websites for work) lend me a hand in making this website do what I want it to do.  If I can execute all of my plans, it’s going to be amazing!

It’s hard on my pride to admit that I’m not as good as I once was, but if I can enlist some help to make this website a really great experience, it will be worth it!

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I started blogging on Blogger.  The blog went through a few name changes until it became “Crayoning on the Walls” as a result in my exasperation over my autistic toddler deciding that walls were a better medium than the paper and coloring books that I have provided for her over the years.

This blog, unlike the other, more serious..ish blogs on here, is meant to be more lighthearted and unfocused.  I’ll laugh, I’ll cry, I’ll scream in impotent rage…and I hope you’ll join me for the ride.

I’m not used to WordPress yet, and I’m not sure if I can kidnap my old Blogger files and scoot them over here, but I’ll see about giving it a try.

I’ve started quite a few projects over my lifetime, but I’ve only finished a handful of them. I’m changing that, one day at a time.

My old, abused, workhorse of a router is dying, making it difficult to use the wired connection, much less the wireless connection. Fortunately, a new one is on the way. If all goes well, the magic that followed this wonderful router will continue with the new router.

D-Links have always served me well. I hope that if you ever need a router, you give the DIR-628 or one like it a chance. It’s been a great router for me, and if it hadn’t been through so much punishment over the years, I wouldn’t have bought a new router.