I thought by now we’d be enjoying the fruits of our labors, not to mention back to the mode of actually saving some money. But alas, we are still in the midst of our home renovation. My patience is beginning to run thin as every time I turn around I am writing a check to one of the contractors, buying material, knocking down another wall, and as always cleaning up the DUST!
I’ve read plenty of articles about home owners who go through the same ordeals with regards to home renovation, but until you are in the midst of it you don’t really appreciate what they meant. We still have a good amount of work to complete in terms of major work, including finishing the family room and the entire kitchen redo, but I can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Once the major work is completed there will still be plenty for me to do. There are plenty of cracked plaster walls in need of repair, painting and some finish carpentry that I will need to handle. Perhaps by the summer, we will be bac to some sort of normal way of life around here. Stay tuned.
I realize that I am a married man and have two children to care for, but once in awhile, well maybe more than once in awhile, I like to hang out after work with the guys. It’s not that I don’t want to, or enjoy hanging out with my family, but there’s something about hanging around shooting the breeze and downing some cold beers that is, and always will be a guy thing.
Measure this.
Jan 23
Posted by Mike in Commentary, Development, Web Analytics | No Comments
It’s amazing how far we’ve come with regards to web analytics. Does anyone remember the days of pulling down your daily web log file and processing it through the earlier version of WebTrends. Well we certainly have come a long way baby.
I’ve always been a data geek and even in those early days, I would consume myself with trying to interpret that plethora of highly illegible data, somehow trying to convince myself and my clients that our marketing efforts were driving traffic to the site. Well I’m still a fan of the statistics and data, but now the tools and event the metrics have changed face.
Now with the advent of Google Analytics (and I know it’s been around for quite awhile), measurement, analytics, trending, whatever you want to call it, is now at anyone’s fingertips. And the thing is it’s such a visual and informative interface, that you actually don’t feel like you are crunching data, but rather reading a story.
It always amazes me to see Google take yet another technology and improve upon it. I’ve definitely seen the reverse in many cases.