So Monday my wife gave birth to our second child. See our lives unravel on the flickr account.
In my downtime I’ve been updating my web design portfolio in hopes of finding more freelance work. ….an expanding family it turns out, is an amazing motivator.
Using wordpress to power a design portfolio seems to work well. Most graphic artists I’ve been around go to exhaustive lengths to build/produce their portfolio every 3 or 4 years. Floor to ceiling, they completely revisit it. With wordpress, I can treat mine as a blog, and simply add to it whenever I’ve got something new.
So in between pacifying a screaming newborn, consoling a jealous two-year-old, and reading Indiana Jones movie reviews, I’ve been updating that portfolio and cruising craigslist for freelance/contract web development work. Of course, one of the nice things about working at a University is the generous amount of vacation time I’ve been able to accrue. That really helps out with a new kid. With this amount of sleep, there’s really no way I’d be able to work anyway.
Newborns work the night shift.
