Long Time Gone
I’ve had several hiccups in writing my blog and they usually correspond to some philosophical morass I’m crossing, slowly crossing. I grew tired of writing about news items and politics I can hardly stand to think of. Much less spend time writing about. Then there’s quirky funny nonsense. I like posting that kind of shit but at the same time I have no heart for it. And so many people concentrate so fully on it in their blogs that I can’t compete. I don’t need to. It’s been done already. Not that this blog is a competition. It’s largely a vehicle for updating distant family members on our doings. A delivery vector for photographic information. And then I think I want to put my writing on here. And so I do, and I like that, but then it’s tough to find time, to get it polished enough to post. And I want to write about tennis and training and writing and Clem and our move. But for some reason don’t. If I write personal philosophical material of soulful introspection I have to then read comments telling me not to think too much, it’ll be fine when I’m older. And I think, yeah because you’re fine. You’re so fine you’re about to catch fire. Still there’s the news and politics. This whole middle east melt down is bound to be good for a few laughs. David Cameron is a dick. Obama sure needs some new spin doctors. No. I just can’t. So what is it I want to say? Something positive. I want to make people feel good. I want to bring them to me. What the hell do I say about myself to make other people want to be here? Or maybe I’ve got it all wrong. Maybe… Hey. You interest me. Tell me about your self.
March 3rd, 2011 at 9:58 pm
I had my annual review at work today and, for the second year in a row, my manager told me that my biggest impediment to getting a promotion is that my co-workers think that I’m a dick. (I’m paraphrasing)
March 8th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Well, I ain’t hoed a row since I don’t know when.
March 9th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
You have some perceptive colleagues! Just kidding. Still, you have to see something in that… maybe you can lighten up? Listen to them a little more? I don’t know, maybe the fact that you don’t really want to be there means you’re never going to be overly chummy with the gang…
March 10th, 2011 at 2:38 am
Oh, I definitely need to lighten up. I put a lot of pressure on myself to do all of the tasks that are assigned to me and as a result totally blow off socializing with my peers. And yes, I ultimately have no real interest in what I do as a career. It’s a way to pay the bills. And that is probably fairly clear as well.
But I have been hoeing rows. And, since I joined a local crew team, rowing hoes.