Because everyone loves lists, I will now list the ways my life has changed over the past couple of months. I apologize for being so absent, but you’ll understand after you read the list.
1) I got a job. As someone once said, I now get up early like a birdie. “A job” doesn’t really cover it, because I now technically have two (2) jobs. This might not last forever (I’ve been torn on whether or not to quit delivering pizzas), but for now it’s lucrative and time-consuming. This is ok. The only way is ISN’T ok is this: I don’t have time to post blogs anymore. I only have time right now because I have the day off. I’m barely even twittering these days, it’s gotten so bad. It just goes to show you that I’ll stop being social the moment I get an excuse to stop.
Fortunately, this also means I have benefits, something I haven’t had for a long, long time. My bosses are all great Americans and I love them. There’s also a chance they might be reading this.
2) I’ve been doing other writing. That’s the other reason this blog lays silent as a turtle in a box made of sound-absorbent tile. I just wrote an insane Anti-Oprah short story for the Online Apologetics Conference. Writing takes a lot of time when you’re as scatterbrained as me. Seriously, my brain is always melting in 20 different directions for no reason. I’ll write something, then look back on it and wonder what kind of alien would have written that. I may just have a split-personality, actually.
3) I’ve decided that life is pretty much meaningless. “Vanity” and “Doesn’t matter” are also applicable terms. Yes, I’m ok. No, I’m not insane. This is a good thing. I said “pretty much,” not “completely.”
4) I attended a funeral in Northern Wisconsin and reacquainted myself with church potlucks.
5) I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, which is nice but a lot like 9.10. Also, there were two really dumb things the developers did that hurt my first impression of the OS: They got rid of the volume control in the panel (you have to re-enable it in order to see it) and they put the minimize-maximize-close window buttons on the left side of the windows. Seriously? Even if you think have “big plans” for the right side, you should resist the urge to execute them. I could hack GNOME to put them back on the correct side, but what’s the point? They’d just end up on the left every time I change the theme or upgrade something.
Other than that, though, it’s fine. Not revolutionary, but fine.
6) Lala.com is closing, having been purchased and destroyed by Apple (or at least it’ll be gone on May 31). Steve Jobs just bought them so he could take their engineers and technology and use it for evil. But hey, I get credit in the iTunes store! Whoopee! This is like having a Tolltag account and Hitler buying the highway system, closing all the tollbooths, and giving you credit in his Nazi paraphernalia shop. I stand behind this analogy. It’s exactly like that.
7) The Milwaukee Bucks made us all Fear the Deer, then backed away like, well, a real live deer. At least we now have a “The Pack is Back”-style slogan to use to beat people down.
Yeah, duty calls. Story of my life. See ya later.
