It’s not all beer-driven orgies and hot-oil wrestling here at the Underground.

Occasionally, I’m forced to take paying work (which dramatically cuts into my spare time), largely because not a single one of the Undergrounders has ever written me a check for $100,000.

It’s likely you share my sense of outrage at having to work for a living instead of pursuing higher callings (sleep, fishing, beer, porn – often in combination), but while reality is often ugly, it’s at least consistently ugly.

Most of my work is about as interesting to the Undergrounders as an essay on 18th century agrarian economics, but this project lands in the “teensy bit relevant” column.

So you’re seeing it here. The Siskiyou County Tourism website: VisitSiskiyou.org

visitsiskiyou.org

VisitSiskiyou.org (click picture to visit site)

The eagle-eyed among you may notice a few Trout Underground photographs gracing the site (donations to the greater Siskiyou County tourism effort), though my paid function was akin to an architect’s; I helped define the overall online marketing presence, helped integrate the tech stuff, chose the platform (Joomla), and had a hand in a lot of the content.

Hell, I should have become an online marketing consultant years ago.

Hobbling us was the budget, which wouldn’t keep your average goat alive for the year (hence the donated photos), though given our constraints, I’m damned happy with the results.

We’ve got sliders (photographic slide shows), videos, live weather & road conditions, event calendar – all the basic goodies.

There’s even a blog involved, and from time to time I’m going to contribute some generic, non-cutting-edge fodder.

The Undergrounders – especially those looking for a fisherman-and-family friendly destination – may want to frequent the site and blog – and you’ll definitely want to register for the seasonal enewsletter (2-4 times a year, though one drops tomorrow AM).

It’s unlikely I’ll be a regular contributor (outside of some fishing content for the blog site – donated in the interest of elevating our economically backwards county), but frankly, even the mere glimpse of a watered-down Underground post is worth the effort.

See you online, Tom Chandler.

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