In 1997 I used my tax refund to get satellite television. Although I was much more of a television-watcher back then, the one primary reason I wanted to get satellite television when I did was so I could catch a documentary on Björk that was going to air on Bravo, which my local cable company didn’t carry back then. Back when we were closer to having 500 cable channels than the 5,000 or so we have today, a documentary on Björk airing in the United…
In the wee hours of the first of April, 2001, I decided to try this thing I’d just heard of on TechTV called “blogging.” The .org had been around for about five months at that point, and at first my blog was separate from the .org, hosted on Blogspot, until I integrated it with the .org later. That first night I wondered if Blogger would automatically adjust the time for Daylight Savings Time, since I’d literally created the blog in the last minutes before the…
Last month was the first calendar month since I started blogging that I didn’t post a single entry. I apologize for that, but as much as my life has slowed down in some areas, it’s approaching mach speed in others. My personal life is going through a huge transition right now, I’m trying to formulate Plan B — the backup in case The Plan doesn’t work (and at this point it looks like one of them has to work if I’m to retain any sense…
I always say I focus more on looking back over the past year on my birthday than on the last day of December, but given how most people use this day to reflect back, it’s hard for me not to do so as well. If I said I didn’t like how this past year went, I’d have plenty of bad stuff to point to. Mom’s health problems over the past year were certainly difficult (and as if things weren’t bad enough, she dislocated one of…
I knew October and November would be busy months for me, since they always are thanks to my teaching schedule. Trying to balance that with everything else in my life has been quite a struggle, as I have so many big things going on right now, especially with my writing projects, that I just don’t have time for everything. My social life finally seems to be back on the upswing, but that will be severely hampered as the weather gets cold and snow prevents me…