Home Stretch

Happy Thanksgiving! That's where we are in 2009... at the end of November with only a month to go before we ring in the new year. The home stretch. Yes, I've left my blogsite languishing; too many other irons in the fire and too many excuses. It's not that I haven't much to rant about, but perhaps it's a feeling of helplessness, hopelessness or haplessness (of being able to effect a change) that has me directing my energies elsewhere. That energy is more or less focused on a few priorities I've identified over a period of introspection: my cats, motorcycling and volleyball. Of course there are incidentals such as art, technology, etc., but back to the point, I've put a finger on it. The 3 biggest irons. And now to figure how best to integrate dragonmojo.com into the current and future scheme of things.

Time for a change... time to turn and face the strain.

Where Am I?

Trying to determine where I am headed here, online, blogging this personal blog. I've perhaps mentioned before that I feel a need to narrow my focus as to why I'm here. Jerry Seinfeld succeeded with a TV series in the last century that claimed to be a show about nothing, thereby including everything... but I should be so lucky.

Yup, perhaps a bit more focus.

Hump Day

All quiet on the homefront, so I figure I'd post something, say anything. Here goes.

After many days of triple digit temps, we've had a cooldown. This week has been and will be around 80 degrees tops. It's quite a welcome respite, save for one niggling annoyance: the wind. I've ragged about the wind in past posts which, along with fog, are my least favorite weather conditions. The crap that the wind stirs up have been a nuisance for allergy sufferers. There's also stuff that get blown over, our region having gone through just that only a few months ago. Trees. Power lines. Fences.

It is Wednesday, mid-week and often referred to as hump day. It's a mystery to me how calendars came about where weeks begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. If God rested on Sunday, wouldn't the week begin with a Monday and Thursday will be smack dab in the middle and become the hump day? Or we can credit the bankers for giving us the 9-to-5 M-F schedule that sandwiches Wednesday between two pairs of other work days.

Memorial Day weekend is around the corner and there are sales advertised everywhere I look. Kinda nice that I just received my stimulus check from Uncle Sam, except that it's all been spent (e.g. the insurance deductible and then some, for my motorcycle engine damage). I guess that's the latest excuse. Going back chronologically I could say that it had already been spent on the central heat and a/c replacement. Or last summer's vacation. Or a myriad of purchases hi-tech or home & garden related. Ad infinitum, but a buck's a buck.

Have a safe upcoming holiday weekend!

BlogCatalog

I recently signed up with BlogCatalog in order to (I suppose) mingle with others in the blog community. I ran across this site through a link I found at Steph's blog and joined out of curiosity. Where this will take me is anyone's guess.

So far, in the short amount of time since I signed up, it's smelling a bit like MySpace. Buried in my archives is some banter regarding my observations of the MySpace community (I really need to work on a Search feature to sift through those archives!). Perhaps my comparison is premature.

At least in BlogCatalog's effort to clone features for The Rest of Us, we get to pick and choose what to include in our accounts, and use it to refer to our own blogsites and not (totally) have to reinvent the wheel. Save for the advertisements. But as it's often been said, there's no such thing as a "free lunch".

I don't feel quite so dirty now.

Speed Bumps

I have been contributing to a local blog concerning our immediate community. I discovered this website while attempting to secure the name for myself through Blogger.com (as a platform mainly to rant about the local goings-on). However, it was snagged by Sue Hobbs who lives in a neighborhood a few miles from mine, aptly named "Garden of the Gods" due to the street names adopted from mythology... names like Venus, Morpheus and Adonis.

Rant I do on this community website, but I hope to also contribute something more than just bones to pick. I've shared information about the road work in progress along Watt Avenue, notified visitors about an upcoming art exhibit and a neighborhood Independence Day parade.

But my latest posting is a beef about the traffic on my street. Maybe this could be your street too?