Chixe

My name's Alex and I just discovered the site today. I think I'll be spending a lot more time here because I've got a lot of free time to surf the web where I work. I'm eighteen and I have various projects ranging from writing a book, to publishing a webcomic about cats that off their owners, to a podcast that may or may not survive the holidays.

Happy Holidays by the way.

I'm mom to two daughters and we live in Australia with our many pets. Love reading and making friends.
My main site is My World

Well, first off, what a great community 9rules is...strolled across it here and there over the past many months, and have been lurking for a few weeks now, and now am feeling comfortable jumping into some of the conversations...

So...lessee, I'm a married hippie, my wife rocks, and knows more about music than most people could imagine (it's her job), and in most cases, she's cooler than I am...but that's obvious...she works for a company called Homegrown Music.

Well, I started freelancing web design/development fulltime a year ago, got sick of these 3-6month contracts that were the only things available to a Sun God around the RTP NC area, after my last real job went belly-up and died in 2004. So, after having done a few websites for some bands I knew, I made the jump and well, I'm on a micro income now, but still haven't looked back. Plus, in the design area, I'm finding my skills really are finally improving, and am relying less and less on templates, and instead building on layouts for websites...I write my own php, pretty ok with photoshop, and I use vim as my weapon of choice when it comes to code.

We live in rural North Carolina, surrounded by thousands of acres of free range cow pastures...kind of right in the middle of Burlington & Chapel Hill, both being about 20mins away, and the closest store is 10mins (and it's a WAL-MART of all places).

I'm mostly into jamband music, with leanings towards bluegrass, rock, and jazz.

I don't blog, my primary pc is a windows xp thinkpad, I should excersize A LOT more than I do, and even being close tied to music, I prefer to work in silence.

So, that's all...<waving>

ooops, sorry double posted somehow...please delete this...my bad, really sorry :)