Hiking Pics

I snapped a few pics with my cell phone while I was out hiking with my mom last week. She's just like me, so we had great fun climbing around the rocks at low tide and searching for treasure. I've never seen starfish out there before and these purple ones looked amazing! Even more exciting, check out the octopus my mom spotted under a rock:



The pug loved it, of course. He just had a bath the day before grandma arrived, but after digging in the ocean and wading up to his belly, he needed another one. Nothing like wet dog mixed with dead fish smell!

Server Frustrations

You may have noticed my frustrated tweets over the last few days, so I thought it might be a good idea to explain what's been driving me batty without the 140 character restriction.

My websites (KrisMadison.com and BarefootKristy.com) are a one woman show. There's just me here. No webmaster, no server admin, nobody to help me keep my sites up and running, save from the occasional shoot where I'm able to convince someone else to get behind the camera for me. This fact used to be something of which I was quite proud. Now? I'm ready to admit I need help. My time would be better spent doing things like shooting new movies, not going through log files trying to figure out what's wrong with my server. I should be writing blog posts and responding to emails from fans, not writing up support tickets at my hosting company.

I apologize in advance for writing this whining rant of a blog post; I'm sure I'll read it with regret later. There are plenty of jobs that are a lot tougher than mine and I know that for the most part I have things pretty good. And if my sites made more money, this would be a non issue. I'd have a fully managed server and a tech guy because I could afford to pay them. But for right now, I'm stuck in the land of doing a job basically on spec. The money I've spent (OK, charged) on buying a dedicated server, scripts to run the members area, scripts to manage traffic, tech support by the hour when I need it - that's the stuff that eats up any profit my little sites generate. It starts getting really frustrating when I look at how much I'm spending versus how much is coming in. The fact of the matter is, I don't *need* a dedicated server to handle the small trickle of visitors my sites get. Especially when it means that I'm the one in charge when the whole thing goes down because apparently it's being brute force attacked so some password trading assholes can figure out how to download all of my content for free. I burned through more than 100 times the bandwidth that I usually do in 1 month this week before I figured out what was going on. Oh yeah, that's because I canceled the password trading service I used to use because I couldn't afford it. And that's what happens when the person responsible for securing the integrity of a server is *me*.

The benefit of running my own server is that I can run all the scripts I want and, back to that spec thing, when I finally hit the BIG TIME, when my sites get out there and become well known, then I'll be happy that I planned ahead. I can handle spikes of traffic (in theory). I just don't get any!

Meanwhile, as our hero waits for the elusive Traffic to appear, her credit cards are maxed out, her rent is due and she's starting to wonder if that BIG TIME is ever really coming.

I'm starting to wonder if all of this is ever going to pay off. And let me state for the record that by "pay off" I mean be able to live from month to month comfortably, without having to worry that if I buy myself a new pair of shoes I won't be able to pay the phone bill. I'm not talking lap of luxury here, just a bit of breathing room.

I love so many things about being self-employed, especially about running a business on the internet. But on days like today when I would really rather make art, take photos, even go to the gym instead of researching hosting options, it makes me long for the days when I got paid by the hour. Even at minimum wage I'd probably be taking home more money than I do now based on the number of hours I work! Of course working from home and getting naked in front of a camera doesn't usually feel like work, but that doesn't negate the fact that I never take a day off. Ever. At the very least, even if I'm out of town, I'm logging in to check my email, check my stats, maybe blog or post on Twitter, and always thinking, planning, composing future blog posts in my head, snapping pics so I can document what I did when I had a day off.

OK. Enough whining for one day! I need to get back to work. And by work, I mean masturbate.

Winter Flasher

I uploaded a new video today of me out flashing in the winter snow. It hardly seems appropriate since it's supposed to be such a warm, sunny day today, but that's what happens when you don't have a good organizational system for keeping track of your video shoots - you forget you even have them!

I taped a video when I shot the pink RHT stockings pics, so when I started to go through the tape to upload that video, I discovered this video, shot weeks earlier when we had that big snowfall. Whoops!

It's up now for members. And any volunteers for being my home office secretary are welcome! *grin*

Sexy Legs in RHT Stockings

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My new sexy legs pics are up for my wonderful Kris Madison members. I'm wearing a brand new pair of pink RHT stockings that one of my favorite long time friends and members bought me off my wishlist quite some time ago. I've been saving them for just the perfect occasion and it turned out that the perfect occasion was a day when I was feeling totally blah and absolutely unsexy. I knew I needed to do a shoot so I would have something to update my site with, but I was definitely NOT feeling my usual saucy self.

Opening up a new package of beautiful 100% nylon stockings? That was just the treat I needed to put a smile on my face. Of course, my hand in the panties didn't hurt either. *wink*


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Mama Madison

While we're on the subject of house guests, I almost forgot to mention the next one in line - my mom! She's flying in on Sunday, so my sister and I are working out a timeshare agreement. All I want to do is take her hiking; as long as we get good weather, I'll be happy.

I need to make her Mother's Day present too and get that ready. And I need to finish working on all of my updates for this week before I de-porn my house. Nude pics + my mom = major drama. So...back to work!

The House that Kris Built

You know summer is approaching when the revolving doors of Casa Madison start to swing. My buddy Kevin came out for a few days last week. He's been here before, but this was the first time without his girlfriend. He's been considering making a move out west, so I took him around, checked out possible places he'd like to work and took a look at an apartment advertised on Craigslist. All in all we had a good visit, but I don't think he's going to move out here, mostly for the same reasons I keep thinking about settling somewhere else - it's too bloody expensive!

I go back and forth on this quite a bit. I love living in walking distance to great restaurants, pubs, the markets. I would like to be closer to a beach (any beach) and hiking trails. Those are still a bit of a drive for me, but not so far a drive that it's not worth going for just an hour. Which I do, probably once a week. If I were to move to an area with cheaper rent, that puts me a lot farther away from that kind of stuff, which is pretty much the whole reason I live out here in the first place.

I also really do love my living arrangement in this house. It's ridiculously expensive, but the benefits are the community. I probably eat dinner with my landlord 3 or 4 times a week. We barbecue, he watches my dogs if I'm going to be gone for the night, we're friends. And when you move to a city where you don't really know anyone else, that's pretty important.

The downsides are there is absolutely zero privacy. My office, where I'm sitting right now & where I would like to be doing cam shows, has a window that looks onto the pathway that all of my neighbors walk past. Constantly. With their children. Window closed, drapes shut, they can hear everything clear as a bell. Inside the house is just as bad. I usually wait until I'm the only one here before I even attempt shooting pictures so that I don't get busted.

Now that I'm a bit more established here, I probably could handle living elsewhere and just coming over to hang out once in a while. But after living like this, I think I'd be looking for another house where I get to live with a bunch of people who look out for each other. Is this the new urban family? Without all the guilt and yelling? *grin*

Sexy Legs

Here's a sneak peek at my new photo gallery, Sexy Legs in Stockings, that will be up soon for members. Click here to become a member today.

I'm wearing a pair of 100% nylon RHT stockings from Secrets in Lace (thanks J!). I've been saving these stockings for ages now, waiting for a great location and the perfect outfit to wear with them. This set? On my living room couch? Was not that location. I've been feeling pretty blah lately, too much working at my desk and not enough working out, pale from the very long winter...just generally not feeling like my usual flirty self. So I figured if I'm already going to be shooting myself at home, alone, without even a photographer helper to tease, I deserve a treat to get my juices flowing! These stockings definitely did the trick.

I love the way "real" stockings feel right out of the package. These ones are a glimmer version, so they've got even more of that supple stiffness and make a fantastic scratchy sound when I cross and uncross my legs, rubbing my legs together. They fit perfectly too, which is important when you're dealing with 100% nylon stockings. No spandex means not a lot of give!

I'd like to do another shoot in these pretty pink stockings, one where I've got more room to stretch out and really show off my legs. Since I was working with a tripod and remote, getting up and down to change the angle, I didn't get nearly as many full length sexy legs pics as I would've liked to in this set. What I really need is a photographer who can back up and tilt the camera to get every inch of my legs in the shot. Much better than me crouching down lower and lower to keep my head from being cut off!

After this shoot, I've got that spring back in my step and am well on my way to feeling flirty again. I might have to take these sexy legs out on the town!

Sexy Legs and Feet in Pantyhose

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A new movie is up for members, a rather short but sweet clip that shows a bit of everything from my sexy legs and feet in pantyhose to my bare feet close up and right in your face.

This isn't the kind of movie I usually post for my Kris Madison members because if you have a fetish for feet, you'll be much happier over at my site devoted to bare feet. But this one...I don't know. I just like it. There are lots of quick edits which my ADD brain *loves*, though they were actually a by-product of me getting frustrated with my remote control. This movie had lots of outtakes, let me tell you! My remote probably just needs a new battery, but it had me very frustrated. Several cut scenes consisted of me with one hand down my pantyhose and the other hand on the zoom button screaming, "ZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOMMMMM YOU FUCKER!!!"

I wish there were some kind of adult version of America's Funniest Home Videos. I'd have a few entries for sure!