Okay, okay, I haven’t posted a real post since July 4th, but it’s one of my favorite days of the year - the day that the hellish Texas summer is given its eviction notice - so I’m going to try to get a wrap-up posted without murdering 30 minutes to do it:
I actually have been posting on my blog — if you’ll look in my sidebar you’ll see my Twitter feed, which also includes my Blip.fm posts, which are also routed through Facebook. Those things are mostly how I blog these days, so if you want to follow me on those, click each of the links in this paragraph.
But keep coming back here too, of course. Not all of my thoughts fit into 140 characters.
All summer they’ve been tearing up the street in front of our house, but it hasn’t been as bad as I’ve feared (like it was on another street 3 years ago) and the end may finally be in sight. Still, it’s been awfully blasted inconvenient.
I made Employee of the Month for August at my job! Not bad, considering I’m just part-time and I’ve only been there 8 months.
The astounding thing is that this is the first job I’ve had where at least some level of management doesn’t have their head up it. Seriously: first job EVER. I was at the point where I didn’t realize it was possible for management NOT to have their head up it.
At this one place I worked once upon a time, the person who kept getting Employee of the Month was the one who was occasionally known to sit on the assistant manager’s lap. I’m not saying there was any connection between those two facts — hey, maybe it was statistical clustering — but I do know that she was lazy, incompetent and tended to spend all day playing on the computer, so …
But I digress: My point is that I’m amazed and thrilled that my skills and my diligent efforts were actually noticed - and shocked that they were rewarded! Wow. A small sliver of Life actually makes sense.
And for the record, I didn’t have to sit on anybody’s lap.
Another reason I haven’t posted much is because I’ve tried to dedicate September to try to get to the next plateau in my music projects. I haven’t been totally successful so far, but I’ve brainstormed more lyrics in the past 30 days than in all the years since I was in a garage band in Lubbock.
And by “brainstormed”, I mean “come up with a lot of stupid crap that I would never want anybody to see or hear”, but if you don’t do that when you’re brainstorming, then you’re not doing it right.
But there is one musical advance I hope to get out of this month: Tomorrow I start my piano lessons! Yes, yes, old dog, new tricks, shut up. I’ve been piddling around on keyboards for some time now, but this will be my first exposure to actual educated training. I’ve found a music teacher that’s looking for some very basic computer lessons, so we’re doing a swap.
I’m still occasionally Djing in Second Life, including tomorrow night at Belar Inshan Social Club. Drop in at 8 Central if you’re in the Metaverse at the time!
Our big screen TV went out in early August, so we were without it for like 3 weeks, but fortunately it was still under extended warranty, and of course we DO have other TVs in the house.
But that was the BIG one.
Anyway it’s back now and we can breathe again.
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OK, that’s all for now, and I ended up slaughtering MORE than 30 minutes.
But now you’re fed. So follow me on the other things, and keep coming back here.
