Whoopsie.

Got a polite letter tonight from my city, which also happens to be the city that houses White Peacock. Apparently I have not filed a business license with them yet, but they have records that I'm here, and I better do that within 15 days mmmmkay?

This is what my brain did: WhitePeacockDesigns.com has nothing for sale yet. Ergo, it's not in business. My old website, on the other hand, is up and running, and IT has a license. Nothing's selling, but it's technically "in business." However, I filed a DBA with the county of intent to do business under White Peacock, so it seems that I need the business license for White Peacock, like, now.

What I'll now have to do is change the business license name to reflect White Peacock instead of the old name. Which means I have to file a "statement of abandonment of a fictitious business name" with the county. And after that, there will only be an index page at the old site pointing everyone to White Peacock, for a couple of months anyway. Then the domain will be re-opened to anyone who wants it. Hopefully not for porn, or one of those annoying link-filled "Would you like to make this your home page?" sites. I don't want to be blamed for that.

Maybe I should view the old business as a failed yet interesting experiment. Like the black-and-white films of the "flying contraptions" that would crash their hapless inventors into old-timey ditches. But one of those contraptions flew eventually...right?