Sabbatical
Why haven't I been blogging?
- The blog-conscience is not only loud, but creating an echo
- I was tired of finding my mis-spelled words showing up in Google search
- I find my blogs usefulness cresting in a search for "how to remove a cat from an air duct"
- I've turned my main computer over to my wife, and find getting my own system setup is not-so-simple without broadband and Linux skills
- I've been pondering the meaning of "fan-boy" and would rather not blog about it before making some pythonic contribution beyond that scope
- Toddlers need attention, work getting interesting, and the bathroom is still tore up.
- Trying to figure out if my Radio Userland purchase covered a year of Userland hosting, or also the software. So when it works--why not use it?
- I still can't remember the model of pocket computer I programmed on in High School. I was certainly close to this...but perhaps the predecesor...wish I hadn't sold it. Small momentos are much better than the cache-o-crap in the basement.
- Winter family flu followed by annoying root canal one-two punch.
- I've got to master the art of near-vintage Volkswagen maintenance and at least trouble-shooting, as our camper-van will be coming home soon, or going home, depending on the summer's expeditions.
- I built an Electric Pinecone with a midwest pine-cone (not Pacific Northwest as in picture) and one side of a Dollar-Store ear-bud headphone. No amp, so used good ole windows sound recorder..tlak-tlak-tlik...I think it's out of tune, but sounded about as good as the children's accordian my boys blasted on at Goodwill.
- Afraid that if I start track-backing the funnelnut grand champene (on a technicality, I speculate) I'd never stop. (Hey Ken, check out the Neil Gaiman quote, now I understand your appreciation. Abe, here's your link: hit.)
- Learned the previously $60 56K upgrade for my courier v.everything 33.6 modem is free, just now have to re-look it up and burn it...then to get my Linux box to be the home's internet...erm..gateway?
- New and deminishing amusement with fark.com and curious fascination with it's need to denote the demographic with Wisconsin headlines....must...not....repost...
- Value determination that post-game synopsis and internet spots-caster collaboration, although fun, doesn't build the same credibility as a compilable contribution.
- Wondering if petty items such as "Is the title of your blog a link to your root (??) view" truly blogworthy .. to whining about blogs using 32-char GUID'esque permalinks, and incosistencys in the use of the guid/link tags..and responding an old Raymond Chen comment on the useless of emoticons = useful in a vague, interpret-this-according-to-your-own-good-humors kinda way.
- Needing to write blogs in real editor, then proof-read and still find momentum to post.
- Whining that the following required an underitilized subscription to an over-bannerized perspective: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&;q=underutilize ...Yep, that's me, Emoticon Purchasing Agent who feels the strange need to get in contact with classmates. :-P
- Remembering every time I sit down to blog...I get up 2 hours later, as opposed to the 45 minutes of the usual mail and news skim-about.
- Need to step back from the egalitarian panacea of F/OSS and be micro-content in my closed source world. "Microsoft's genius", eh? sigh +1
- Reminder that my blog is much in need of a facelift, and content ain't gonna get it there...while the current content view pretty much reflects my eclectic perspective. My apologies for no blog-roll. Much thanks to those blog-rolling me.
- Unwillingness to stick my naive and often green-horn neck on a public spectacle and archive of a blog. You call it fear, I call it a calculated risk.
and finalley, in the alter-ego words of 'Frank Lee "Speaking" Mitre':
- "Cute gets old, Amazing requires repetition, and Solid requires a foundation.", I've got to build--not garner, borrow or speculate--more foundation.
Looking forward to rejoining the whirlwind in a month or so.
...and by the way, I'm looking for (by this fall): 95-98 Honda Odyssey. 4 standard doors model. Preferably < 130K miles with appropriate maintenance. Newer OK but I'd prefer to pay off college loans.
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