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-

Thank You Mister Postman!...

Postman, the author of the Sententious Vaunter, has seen fit to pass on to me the "From Me to You" award.


The way this one works is that you, as the recipient, are to share seven truths about yourself and then pass it on to seven more bloggers so that they may wash, rinse, repeat.

Kinda fun.

I thought that I would try to dream up some self truths to send out that I think many of you may not know about me. let's see how this goes...

1. I have four cats. Granted, the first three came with a free roommate as a sort of package deal but, well, there you have it. Four cats and a roommate, all female. Yeah... Sometimes that is scary.

2. I am an intensely spiritual person. Most of the time. Well... Quite often anyway... Alright, it has been a few years but I am working on it damnit! Let's call this one a truth in progress.

3. Terry Pratchett is one of my all time favorite authors. I sincerely doubt that is a surprise to many of you. The truth I am getting at here is that I have always had trouble deciding whether I prefer the Witches books or the Vimes books. They both appeal to so many (and such different!) parts of my mind.

4. I look good in orange. I have no idea why this should be so and, frankly, I refuse to actually wear it regardless. Nonetheless I am told that it is really quite fetching on me. Go figure.

5. As a child, I was apparently incredibly social and happy-go-lucky. Just goes to show that the person you knew as a child is not necessarily the person you will meet as a man. Just sayin'.

6. I follow two comics online... Questionable Content and Looking for Group. I have tried getting into others and I just can't do it. If anyone can work out what the two have in common, please let me know. If you know of another that has the same element involved, shoot that one my way as well.

7. I have two brothers and a sister. The brothers are roughly two and five years younger than I am. The sister is seventeen years younger than me. Let me tell you something. When, at 17, your mother tells you that she is pregnant there is only one possible reaction that you can have.... "You are WHAT!??? What the... Wait! You have SEX!!!???? ::vomit::"

And there you have it. Seven truths from me to you.

Now to pass it along...

Let's see... Seven worthy bloggers share this joy with.

1. Nik - I have to admit, I am somewhat curious as to what she will come out with for this so onto the list she goes. If you haven't yet, you can find her at Nik Cubed.

2. Tracy Lucas at The Wandering Brain. I haven't seen much from her lately and what I have seen has been far too serious. She needs to loosen up so hopefully she will have some fun with this one.

3. Pirates dig Chicks who Blog author, Jenn because I think she will have fun with it and I am all about the fun.

4. Melanie deserves the hell out of this so I am going to hand it off to her at The Dying Art of Keeping House.

5. Since I don't think I have seen her get this one yet (or at least I haven't noticed her doing her post for it), Joan Crawford from Things I Yell at You needs to be heard more. I miss her yells when she goes away for a while.

6. Because he is someone else I hope to hear more from, Nathan, my friend from Along the Pathway should write one of these. He invariably has good things to say so hopefully he will find time to do this post.

7. Finally, because I do indeed have a masochistic side (and trust me, I will be getting punched for this), I am going to use this to poke Manda. Her blog at About the Journey has been slow in taking off and is meant to be somewhat professional but, maybe, she can spin this into telling some professional truths. We will see.

Once again I want to say thank you to Postman and bid those mentioned to have fun with their own versions of this.

Woot! Finished! Next time I only get to tell one truth. Heheheh (insert shifty grin here) Now to close with a quote!... Hrmm...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-Oscar Wilde on the pure and simple truth-