Sometimes I forget that I have a “blog”. Occasionally someone will mention my “blog” to me and I’ll have to think for a second. Oh yeah.. graymachine. Yeah, I have a blog!

But, obviously I don’t post much to it any more. That’s kind of a shame. I could make excuses about life, kids, work, owning a home, moving, etc… but really, it’s just a priority that I’ve pushed to the bottom. Why?

You can look around the community and see folks that have similar sites, but stuck with them and went a lot further, friends of mine like Andrew Kramer or Nick Campbell. I could have stuck with graymachine through thick and thin, made more products and tutorials and pushed myself further. But I didn’t. So, it’s time to come to grips with that.

And to be honest, there’s been a lot of difficult things I’ve been dealing with lately, so it would be great to get it all off my chest. Maybe some of you have dealt with similar things or similar challenges, and we can tackle it together. I know this has always been a site about motion graphics, visual effects, software, etc.. but it’s also about being a successful person that does all this stuff. We can’t be successful if we are dragging baggage around.

So, if you come back on occasion, you can read about challenges, self defeat and achieving success in spite of the crappy cards you may have been given in the poker game of life.