Johnny did a crazy cool thing for me yesterday: in the space of a few minutes, he utterly eliminated one of the major points of my personal procrastination.

For the longest time, I would think about building a site. I’d read up on it, maybe try out a few domain names, poke around WordPress for a spell, research, think, and research some more.

When it came the actual pulling of the trigger, I’d freeze up. Wait. What’s the deal with hosting? What’s a host? And those themes, they look cool, but I don’t know shit about codin’ no site. And GoDaddy — every single page of the checkout has a dozen different buttons, and they all look URGENT. Do I need them all? Or any?

So as I’d look at all of the possibilities, my brain would overheat and I’d start drooling all over the keyboard. Vapor lock. Too many options resulted in decision paralysis. I’d put the idea of a blog aside for another day.

I know, it’s not like I’m buying a house or performing brain surgery. But this venture will have my name and fingerprints on it, I want it to be as good as can be.

Enter Mr. Truant.

Panacea for the vapor locked. A cool drink for the technologically befuddled. A kind word for the terminally frazzled. Most of all, a swift and altogether welcome kick in the procrastinations.

I followed the step-by-steps Johnny laid out. In 10 minutes I conquered GoDaddy. Yes, I know what Hosting means now. But more importantly I made GoDaddy bend to my will, subduing all of its silly buttons and slippery upselling. Yeah. Who’s your daddy? Me. I’m your daddy, Daddy.

Once that was done, Johnny stepped in to handle the wordpressing. (You like how I’m oh-so-fluent in the tech speak now?) A short time later, my site, my blog, my web presence…was complete. It’s still very incomplete, there’s a million things I want to add and write and show. But it’s there.

But (and for me, this is the coolest thing ever): Now I have a professional looking website. That’s something I never had before, because I always found a reason to not follow through. Johnny cut through all the hoohah and made the whole experience fantastically easy.

And now I have a website. Did I mention that?

Thanks again, Johnny.