– 11:39 pm

I just got an invoice from Nate, requesting payment in Bitcoin. He’s a front-end developer. We met many years ago working for a payday loan company called Sunny. He’s since moved back to Australia and started a family. Undoubtedly, his daughter has outgrown the baby clothes I sent her. She looks ready to earn an adult-size wage.

We were good friends then and even better ones now. Our friendship has aged like vino. He’s also an excellent soundboard, so I often bounce ideas off him. No one provides feedback more thorough and criticism more constructive. It’s bulleted, concise and digestible. It’s OCD. If you’re ego-free, he’s a great brain to work with.

This time, however, payment was to go live with a new site called mydearlittleman.com. I don’t have the time to do it and the opportunity cost is too high. It’s a steep curve for me, a ‘ten-minute’ job for him given he works with WordPress on a daily basis. This way, everyone gets a trophy. I did the legwork and found a template that meets my needs. Beyond that, he doesn’t know what it’s for.

Currently, I’ve been notetaking on Notability, either to edit docs or write freehand. I’m using it as we ‘speak’ but will have to migrate my entries onto the site once it’s live. So everything you read to this point started off some place else. As brilliant an app as Notability is, it’s unideal for diary-style blogging. Come to think of it, perhaps I’m not using it right, not entirely. But if I knew this would evolve into what it is now – and I still don’t fully know what this is – I would’ve used it slightly differently. I could also retrofit it to make it work. But my current setup is too rigid for me to work with. Moving things around has become quite painful. So in all, a site gives me better flexibility for current and future needs.

I just spent the last 4 or so hours designing site icons. It’ll be interesting reading this in the future and looking at the site to see if I used any of them.