Welcome

Please welcome back @martypunker to the team, you all know the drill by now, give him profuse amounts of love and hugs and other assorted feel good spam

Birthdays

For those of you who don't know (which is most, I'd wager), I've been an MN@ for two years
To be honest, it doesn't feel that long, and I still feel like a newbie

I was going to write a journal replete with statistics and other assorted mathematical junk, but, to be honest, that would require research, and effort, and I know that most people wouldn't really care about such little points of data.

Suffice it to say, I think I've grown considerably in my time as an MN@.
I started out as a timid noob, who was originally supposed to focus on moderating the forums, since, before becoming an MN@, I had probably spent no more than about 24 to 36 hours on dAmn.
Nonetheless, I decided to join #devart, because I wanted to be more useful than that, and about 36 hours later (almost contiguously ), I went to bed.
Needless to say, I returned.
Over time I gained some modicum of confidence, and about two months after my first birthday as an MN@, I was told by $Tachy-on that my MN@ privs were to be removed.

To be replaced with Senior MN@ privs

It goes without saying that I was surprised at that, since I considered myself to be fairly green still (and I still do).
Anyway, those privs came the ability to promote DD's (which, I admit, I've been woefully under-utilising recently), which was something I had wanted to do for quite a long time.

Since then, I'd like to think I've come into my own, and I know that these two years have done quite a lot for myself, certainly, I wouldn't be as much of a shut in as I used to be (though, I still am a shut in, I'm just one of those rare breed that knows what sunlight looks like ).

One main highlight was at the HQ meet, with $spyed bringing out the all the staff and volunteers in attendance to stand in front of the group just before the group photo was taken.
As an introvert, that was, to be mild, 'interesting'.

I had been telling myself to 'write an epic journal today', but, unfortunately, this is all I've got.
Here's to another two years

Storytiem

For those interested, the story is still going, it's just not going very fast, I'm currently in the process of outlining the plot of the story, which is proving to be difficult, since I don't want to copy other fan-fiction that I have read, and I want the plot to be at least believable and applicable to the A:TLA universe.
I will get there, just be patient.
Oh, also, when I do get around to actually writing this story, I will need some proof readers, so, if you're interested, tell me, of course, don't expect anything too substantive in the near future, it could be a month or two before I have any significant material to proof read.

Website Redesign/Re-imagining

I has a website, it's at sineout.com, I want to do a redesign, but, I have a problem.

I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my website.

I've considered many things, some of which I will list.

A Portfolio - this idea is sound, except, with the new dA portfolio's, if I want to show case my photography, I can just use that, granted, if I roll my own portfolio, I can showcase my 'website development' stuff, what little of it there is, and my writing, when I get around to writing something of note, but it's only really my photography that I could really usefully showcase, since, if I'm being honest, my website development skills are even more mediocre than my photography skills.

A Blog, one that I will actually update regularly - this is another sound idea, except for a few factors, first, if I want to blog, I have my dA journal, second, the blog I currently have hasn't been updated in about two years, and third, I really don't think I, or what I talk about is interesting enough to blog with any degree of regularity in the first place, if it was, I'd write more journals

A 'Launch Pad' - eh, the kind of 'home page of my internet presence' is cool and all, but the flaws I see is that, well, first, I'm paying $200 a year for my hosting, making a launch pad page for my site is, well, not an efficient use of the hosting, and, second, the whole point of these launching pads is to link people to other pages, I don't really want people to visit my site to just immediately leave again.

Anyway, those are the main things I've thought about, in the absence of other ideas or suggestions, I will probably combine multiple ideas and run with it.
Either way, since I'm stuck, I'll open the floor, what do you think I should do with my website?