It's the End

Hello Friend- Another spate of web-based inactivity for this blog. I initially hoped to spend November working on my Novel... which didn't happen. What can I say? I got distracted. Then I decided I was going to ditch blogger as my blog-engine-du-jour, and I installed Movable Type. Wow, Movable Type is wicked cool. In fact, it's so cool that I haven't had time to customize the installation beyond the default. I was hoping that I'd get to that before the end of the year, but guess what? That's not going to happen either. Oh, and I registered the domain jmm1991.com. How far did I get on that little project? Well, I installed a forum, but didn't craft an opening page or really anything beyond that. So there THAT sits. Therefore, if you're one of those people who use RSS or Bloglines or something like that, pay attention to the next couple posts, because I'm probably going to change the addressing for the blog/feed and I'll alert you to that eventuality. What else has happened in the last month or so? Well, one of my ReplayTV units gave up the ghost (dead hard drive.) I broke my fancy bluetooth keyboard trying to clean it. Oh yeah, and I forgot to take my celphone out of my pants pocket and it was consequently laundered (cleanest semi-functional phone ever.) I'm trying to decide if I still want to keep this blog going. I mean, it's taken many different forms since Oct 2000 and this is definitely the easiest-to-maintain form yet...and still I manage to neglect it for weeks or months at a time. The truth is, I get far more entertainment from other people's blogs than from my own. A couple of those people are totally slacking or gotten out of the game completely. I have a journal that I keep, which is seeing a lot more use than this dang thing. I think it would be a lot more fun to collaborate on a blog with some people. I think I'll keep doing this, but I need to do a better job of managing your expectations, because I don't believe the frequency of posting is really going to increase much. Which isn't to say that I won't post 3 times in a day and then go 3 weeks with nothing... I'll still do that. Thanks to everyone who stopped by this year. Have a safe and enjoyable xmas/newyears/whatever. I'd tell you to email me, but it probably would get caught in the 17000+/week spam filter. I'd tell you to IM me, but you don't know the address(es.) I'd tell you to give me a call but I need a new phone. Go listen to some punk music. It'll be just like hanging out with me, but you can turn down the volume.