Dang! I never thought I’d do 1,000 of anything. One thousand nights of writing in bed every night. There were a handful of dummy posts, when I just posted a meme or animated gif when I missed a day. A majority of posts are just filler, nothing important, just writing because I had to. The most important posts were the ones where I posted pictures of drawings, or what I worked on that day, or upcoming events. Now that I’ve reached a thousand I might not continue this challenge of posting a new blog post everyday. We’ll see. And to whoever reads this shit… Cheers!

I missed Saturday’s blog post so here’s a dummy post to fill it’s place.

I made this little sketch when I realized I had to upload two posts today.

365 posts! Most of them are shit but the daily exercise has helped me with my writing and it's encouraged me to continually work on other projects. The other benefit is if Instagram ever turns off the lights, or people move to other social media platforms, I'll still have all my content available here.

I spent hours today trying to transfer the images from my old blog posts from Weebly to Wordpress and couldn't figure it out. All the videos I watched and pages I read didn't help at all. I was able to transfer all the text but, if I don't figure out how to copy the pictures, most of what I reference isn't gonna make sense. I've been frustrated with this all damn day.

I tried using a Weebly to Wordpress exporter to move my blog but got the error message below. The Wordpress dashboard shows that my old blog posts came over but the images did not.

That's what I paid for one extra month of Weebly, my current site host, so I can migrate my blog and everything else to Wordpress, my future host. Even though I was still able to write new blog posts, while my site was unpublished, I wasn't able to export all my old posts. I'm still figuring out Wordpress. It's a little bit confusing and I'm having a hard time staying focused on learning it but now I got an extra month to make the switch. 

They've finally booted my ass off the interwebs. I wonder if I can still pull all my old blog posts and move them to my new site without paying an extra month of Weebly. No one's buying shit from me right now so I'm not too worried about the store being down. I wonder what's gonna happen once I publish this post...

My new monitor arrived today! Finally, I have more room to play with when using Adobe apps. I can even rotate it 90 degrees and fit my whole homepage on it. Weebly also sent me an eviction notice today. My website is still up and running as of now. I paid for a year of web hosting with a new host and installed Wordpress. Hopefully I can transfer my old blog posts over before Weebly shuts it down. Otherwise I'm gonna have to pay for an extra month just to copy it over. 

Messages have started showing up when I log onto Weebly asking me to pay for a plan or to remove some features from my site. I didn't renew Weebly's Business Plan when it expired last week. I thought they were going to close my site but it's still up and running. I can still post to my blog and I think as long as I don't edit the site and click Publish, I can keep using it as-is. I want to learn & switch to a Wordpress site, so now that I got the time, I've decided to watch tutorials and get educated. It seems complicated at first but looks easier once it's up and running. First things first, find a web host and pay for a hosting plan, so I'm figuring out how to go about that.

I got home from DJing an event last night and wasn't in a good mood. I got distracted and totally forgot to write a blog post before bed.

It's hard to see the pencil lines but I wanted to show my progress on the piece I call Hearts & Stars & Hearts & Stars... I drew this a couple years ago and it had a 2 inch blank border around the edges which I'm now filling up. A few days ago I started adding more hearts & stars starting from the middle of the left side (in the pic) and tonight I wrapped around the bottom right corner. Once again, it's hard to see.

​The reason I worked on this piece tonight, and this has happened a few times now, was because of this daily blog. Instead of trying to think of something to write about I can just post progress pics of my work. It's easier for me to draw than to write.

I came home from painting at my brother's studio last night and never took my laptop out of my backpack. I showered cuz my feet stank then watched a couple episodes of Lost In Space on Netflix then went mimis. I realized I forgot my blog post this morning while on the toilet. 

Shit! I forgot to write a blog post last night. I went to go see the new Star Wars movie and totally forgot. I think this is the 3rd one I've missed.

I woke up this morning and realized I forgot to post a blog entry yesterday. Last night I emailed the first drafts of the artwork for the award I was asked to design. For the past two days I'd been working on coming up with three different designs for the award. Once I emailed them I felt like my work was done for the day and called it a night. I'll post the designs once one gets approved and finalized. The next step will be to get it framed and deliver it to the organization that will be resenting it on a couple weeks.

I've been running this blog and and posting to it (almost) daily for 2 solid months now. Although feels like longer. It's an exercise to improve my writing, provide free content, and add "value" to my brand. (At least that's what Seth Godin says.) I wish I could think of something interesting to write about my t-shirts & artwork every night but most nights I got nothing. At least nothing that I didn't already write about, and I don't want to write about the same thing over & over. Tonight I've already had this page open for 3 hours before deciding to write about writer's block. It reminded by of this quote I heard, "Inspiration is for amateurs" so I looked it up and it's by Chuck Close:

I had nice streak going. There were a few cheater posts, where I couldn't think of anything so I'd just write a few words or post some drawings, just to say I posted something. I did 56 straight days in a row. I'm a little bummed out that I missed a day. I wanted to make it at least to 100. Oh well.

And in other womp-womp news, it doesn't look like that vending opportunity in downtown is gonna go thru. We'll see.

I love the idea of posting a daily blog post and drawing something new everyday in October but Damn it takes me a long time. It took me a few hours yesterday and today to come up with an idea, sketch it in pencil then finish it with ink. Now it's almost 3 am and I've been in front of my laptop for atleast an hour thinking about what to write for my blog. I still feel weird writing and saying "I have a blog." A part of me doesn't want anyone to read these. I'm doing the daily blog posts, as recommended by Seth Godin, as an exercise in self discipline, to provide new content, become a better writer, and put more thought and effort into my business. The coolest thing so far has been watching the list of categories grow longer and my archives now span 3 months. (I started August 30 and we're only a week into October, so it's really only been a little over one month) Soon I'll have just as many blog entries as Inktober drawings. The current score is Inktober Drawings: 68 vs Daily Blog Posts: 38. They'll be tied up by the end of the year and by next Inktober, blog posts will be leading by about 270. That's a lot of hours... if I keep it up (It is now 3:18 AM)

I crossed these things off my to-do list today:

• Read & sent out work emails. These are for upcoming events I'm DJing 
• Went thru personal emails and unsubscribed from a bunch of mailing lists.
• Cleaned my desk. I threw away and put away a lot of shit.
• I updated my to-do list. 
• Created a doc to log all my cash & credit card sales at events this year.
• Spent a long time looking for all the info needed to fill in that doc. I had the numbers written on a bunch of different notes. I even had to go thru my recycling bin looking for notes.
• Made plans to go out for dinner tomorrow with my cousin Reyna. She assisted Arely and I at the Jazz Festival last month.
• Paid my car registration and renewed my Costco card online. 
• I went to cook the chicken & veggies I bought last week but the chicken went bad so I just cooked the veggies.
• Spent an hour or two stretching & lifting weights. I watched the first half of the movie Turbo Kid while I was stretching.
• Went to gym and got the treadmill for an hour. I ran 30 and walked 30. It's been almost a month since the last time I ran.
• Uploaded a couple posts to my Insta @frankiemcfly
• Now here I am posting my daily blog entry before bed. I think this is blog post #27

I forgot to write a blog post before bed.