March 2000

Welcome to my new and improved web page. As you have noticed, I am my own person on the internet now. I went ahead and splurged with my own domain name. Actually my internet experience is costing me less. I pay $9.95 a month for the web hosting (www.softcomca.com) plus $35 a year for the domain name (avg. $2.92 a month). I then have (or will be very soon) scraped my Earthlink account and went with a free ISP (www.worldshare.net). So those of you who have my Earthlink account still in your address book, change it now to sward@swardraws.com About my new name. Ever since I got on the internet 5 years ago I tried to secure the SWARD name online. Of course it was always taken. When I first signed up with AOL five years ago I decided if I can't be SWARD, I will be NoSWARD. A guy at work still calls me that. I really wanted to be SWARD, something pronoucable. The S comes from my middle name and it just seemed cooler with Ward than NWARD (how do you pronounce that?) Now look at my new domain name. Do you get it? It is SWARD forward and backwards. Am I not clever? Ok, not clever enough to think of the word is that describes that phenomon -LOL. Since I draw for a living it seemed fitting. Well, I actually don’t really draw (I guess I can) but really design--it's close enough, ok! You got to check out the Real Player streaming video of Hollace I now have on my site. It is one of a few new bells and whistles that I plan for this site. Look for some Flash (yes, I got to jump on that bandwagon too) content soon also. Hollace News She is really walking now. She started about a week or so after her first birthday so she is right on time being that the average age of walking is 13 months. She has 5 teeth now and was up all night teething. She got her first tooth just a week or so shy of her first birthday. She was a late teether. Teething bites!