I grew bored with the theme I was using for mattuhrich.com so I decided to create a new one. And I find it easier to design a new theme than to create the crummy content that makes up this site. Since all the themes I’ve designed in the past use sans-serif fonts, I went with a serif font, specifically, good old Times New Roman. I was also weary of the standard site design of post text with a side-bar on the right or left. I realized that I rarely used the links on my site and other peoples site, so they could be banished to the bottom of the page. I’ll put a few important links under the heading along with the search box as I continue to develop the theme. Maybe I’ll use something like ClickHeat to see if visitors clink on the links at the bottom of the page a lot and move them if they do. I’d probably only be seeing my own clicks since I’m the only regular visitor to this site.

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When I was a kid, my dad had these things that looked like pieces of chalk that he would use to stop the bleeding if he cut himself shaving. I hadn’t really thought about it until recently when I was in the shaving section at the grocery store and found something called a styptic pencil, a product “For Minor Cuts and Insect Bites.” It contained two pencils. I’m not sure why you’d need to buy more than one, they seem like they would last at least a decade. That is, unless you were an extra clumsy shaver.

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