Progress
So I recently had to come here to dig through my archives. You see folks, the site that I've been blogging for over the past few months is shutting down on May 21st (you know, the rapture? It's no coincidence. My webmaster has no shortage of a sense of humor) and we were asked to write a farewell post. I decided the best thing for me to do would be to write about the event that brought me to the site many moons ago: my trip to NYC to see and episode taping of the Colbert Report (specifically the Rock and Awe: Guitarmageddon episode). You should check out my December 20, 2006 post to see what I mean.
Scratch that. I don't want you reading that.
Once I sifted through my archives and found the post I couldn't believe what I was reading. Who wrote that? I mean, it had to be me but, wow. The writing is remarkably poor. I cannot believe I wrote it considering how much of a grammar nazi I've become (I can thank Amboo for influencing that. I'm going to chalk it up to feverish right-after-the-fact writing, or just hope that my blogging skills have improved remarkably since then.
After I read, and re-read and shook my head and laughed at my run on sentences and spelling, I wrote my farewell post. It took a long time and it really took a lot our of me, especially went it got to the part about how I almost didn't make the trip to see the episode taping because of my uncle's death. That was tough. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago when I thought about it, other days it seems like I was a different person in a different life time because of who I am now. I sometimes wonder if he would be proud of me for some of the great things I've accomplished since then or disappointed with some of the really dumb things I've done. That's me though, lingering on the negative. I'm still a work in progress. So I had my self a little cry and moved on with the rest of the post, which flowed pretty well.
I am sad to see it go, but part of me is content to have a little more time on the weekend to pursue other interests. I've enjoyed the improv class and hope to go on with that, and now maybe I can get some more going with my camera. I haven't had as much time with that as I've wanted. I also haven't been to meditation as much either. This will open that up. I'm not kidding, the weekly post would take me at LEAST 4 or 5 hours to put the bare bones of each post together - MINIMUM. It was a lot of work and I loved doing it, and I would still do it, but, I'm looking at the positive that is coming out of the decision to close down the site at this time (which was a personal one for the person running it).
So, f you have a chance head over to http://www.nofactzone.net and read my farewell post, I encourage you to do so (my pseudonym is Toad)
Scratch that. I don't want you reading that.
Once I sifted through my archives and found the post I couldn't believe what I was reading. Who wrote that? I mean, it had to be me but, wow. The writing is remarkably poor. I cannot believe I wrote it considering how much of a grammar nazi I've become (I can thank Amboo for influencing that. I'm going to chalk it up to feverish right-after-the-fact writing, or just hope that my blogging skills have improved remarkably since then.
After I read, and re-read and shook my head and laughed at my run on sentences and spelling, I wrote my farewell post. It took a long time and it really took a lot our of me, especially went it got to the part about how I almost didn't make the trip to see the episode taping because of my uncle's death. That was tough. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago when I thought about it, other days it seems like I was a different person in a different life time because of who I am now. I sometimes wonder if he would be proud of me for some of the great things I've accomplished since then or disappointed with some of the really dumb things I've done. That's me though, lingering on the negative. I'm still a work in progress. So I had my self a little cry and moved on with the rest of the post, which flowed pretty well.
I am sad to see it go, but part of me is content to have a little more time on the weekend to pursue other interests. I've enjoyed the improv class and hope to go on with that, and now maybe I can get some more going with my camera. I haven't had as much time with that as I've wanted. I also haven't been to meditation as much either. This will open that up. I'm not kidding, the weekly post would take me at LEAST 4 or 5 hours to put the bare bones of each post together - MINIMUM. It was a lot of work and I loved doing it, and I would still do it, but, I'm looking at the positive that is coming out of the decision to close down the site at this time (which was a personal one for the person running it).
So, f you have a chance head over to http://www.nofactzone.net and read my farewell post, I encourage you to do so (my pseudonym is Toad)