A Tearful Goodbye...

Probably this isn't really a terrible surprise to to most of you but I have fallen out of the habit of making blog posts.

Well, with a grand whopping total of one (1) blog posted in the entirety of 2011, I am afraid it is time to pronounce the last rights and declare this blog of mine well and truly dead. I will invite each of you to take a moment of silence or say a short prayer or do whatever else it may be that will allow you to put your poor bereaved heart to rest before I carry on.

Here is an lovely and entertaining video my roommate shared with me recently. Lets all quietly enjoy the beauty and joy it contains as we wait for everyone to pull themselves back together.

Alright. Now that we've all gotten that out of our systems...

I want everyone to know that writing for you all was a wonderful experience and I learned a good deal about how to write with my very own voice. Such a lesson is good and necessary and I plan to carry it with me into the future.

With all of that having been said, I am starting a new blog! (Had you going for a minute there, didn't I?)

What it really comes down to is that I have grown and changed enough over the past year and change that I feel funny continuing here. I will be keeping some of the things I have picked up here and altering others to better fit my current frame of mind.

And so, without further ado, I invite each and every one of you to join me at "I Was Just Thinking...". (See how it kinda just alters the theme a little? I hope everyone enjoys it!) I am planning on getting to work on it right away so join me for fun times and leave comments to your heart's contents!

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
-Ouida-

It's Been a Long Time...

I haven't posted here in quite a while. (I know. Captain Obvious. That's me. Whenever I am not busy moonlighting as Lieutenant Oblivious.)

Well, I have had my reasons. Admittedly the most prevalent of these is that I didn't bloody want to but, well, what are you going to do?

Am I back now? I am honestly not sure yet. You will likely know when I do.

I miss writing and I miss performing. Those two combined is more or less why I am here; you know? I like to do both and, more importantly, I like to do them each for an audience. What does that mean to you? It means that I am a bloody comment whore and I am infinitely more likely to post here regularly if I am getting comments. In other words, say something. Invite your friends and tell them to say something too! I hate feeling like I am talking to myself.

Anyway! I wrote myself that fancy schmancy disclaimer up at the top so that, hopefully, anything I say here won't spill over and effect my employment. I really like the job I have these days and I would prefer not to lose it over some sort of smart-assery comment I make here in a public forum. To go with that I am going to say that I will not be talking about where I work or anything like that here. If you are a friend of mine in real life and you happen to know where I spend my days, please keep it to yourself. If you want to talk or comment about it, send me an email or shoot me a text or something. Just keep it off this page. Break this one rule and I will find you. Then I will probably hurt you. Then I will delete your comment.

A lot has happened in my life since I was last here. I am not going to waste my time or yours with a full, long winded run-down of everything. I will say this: I am enjoying my life and I am still working at bringing about more and more positive change in it.

Apparently I still come across as a cranky yankee bastard. To those who believe that is who I am, bite me. Also, hah! Joke is on you!... Chances are you will never see the punchline.

I am having fun. I am here to entertain and, if I do my job well enough, hopefully I will even inform. Most importantly, I think, maybe I will make you think. Maybe you will make me think. Maybe we can become a huge thinky forum and start raising the national intelligence quotient a little bit. Gods know we need it desperately.

/sigh

I think I have rambled enough for now. I suppose I could have summed all this up by saying, "I've missed you. I hope you've missed me," but that wouldn't have been nearly as fun. Don't worry. I promise I will be more irreverent and less droning next time.

And so, as is my custom, I shall leave you with a quote to consider:

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-William Shakespeare-

Just up thinking...

Oh.
It's you.
It's been a long time.
How have you been?
I've been really busy being dead. You know... After you murdered me?*

Wait... That isn't what happened at all is it?

Well, in that case, allow me to apologize for my extended absence. Things have been more than a little bit hectic in my world over the past several months. And while I am sorry not to have had more time to share with the imaginary world, I would like to believe that the changes and growth that have taken place outside of the blogosphere makes up for some of that.


What has been taking up so much of my attention that I haven't had any to spare for keeping you all updated? Well, I think I am going to go with real life and leave it at that. Suffice it to say that almost everything that has happened has been positive and those few things that weren't were growing experiences and, therefore, led to positive results.

I will probably update you all on a good bit of it as time goes on. I have every intention (road to hell and all) of posting more regularly again but I make no promises regarding just how regular it is going to be. Perhaps it would be safer for me to say I am planning to post more often.

And so, I thought that I would just start by a simple little post to reorient myself. Mostly I just thought I would write something for the sheer joy of writing it and so, here I am.

For those who have missed my scathing wit commenting on your own blogs, I am going to be working on catching up over the next little while and will likely return to sharing my two cents after I know all the juicy details you have shared without me.

In closing, let me put it to you thusly, "Never fear! I is here!

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela-

*(The quote at the beginning of this post is from one of the promo videos for Portal 2, a video game set to release in February that has me moderately excited.)

OMFG! Projects!

Sorry for the absence guys. I have been working on projects and other projects and just when I think I am all caught up I fond myself caught up in more projects!

I am not gone forever by any means. I have a ton of stuff I want to share and, I suspect a million or so posts from the rest of you to catch up on. I will be getting to it as soon as possible.

For now, I am going to keep this short and sweet and let you all know that I JUST GOT A NEW JOB OFFER!

Oh... Shit... Sorry for screaming there. Let me try that in a more calm tone of voice.

I JUST GOT AN OFFER FOR A NEW JOB!!!!

Wow. Sorry. Apparently I am too excited not to scream it right now. I am sure I will calm down soon.

In the meantime, wish me luck and all that. I will be back to give more updates as soon as I find myself free enough to focus and write something more.

Be good!

-Me-