STILL NOT DEAD YET

STILL NOT DEAD YET

Short takes:

Still alive, just too damned busy to get to blogging. Why am I now, then, blogging you ask? As a moment of escape, a diversion as I continue the death march to finish some crucial writing .... the stuff that pays the bills.

Sort of still in sadness and shock mode, the condition that sets in each year after I drop off the kids in NC with the ex [1]. But there's improvement: for the first time since these Summer visits began, I didn't get ill (cold, sinus infection, horrid stomach) the week after dropping them off in NC.

So much work going on, I don't have time to think. Except about work, and what to get Susan for her birthday, which occurs every year come September. Also this month: my Dad's birthday, and then my son's birthday.

Oh, yeah, one more thing about the kids: as of the beginning of the school year, I now have two kids in High School. How did this happen?

And then there was the getaway.... Susan and I spent a long weekend in Southern California. We visited our friend Kermit (he is a curmudgeon of the highest order) and his sons. While there we spent a day in Santa Barbara (but somehow missed bumping into Santa Barbarian Doc [2], who had a houseful of guests, visitors and plans while we were nearby). Did a little business one day, and saw the Yankees play the Angels in that Flinstone-Bedrock-in-Center Field Disney stadium [3] out there.

PlusPlus from the EGR Topica list joined us for the game, and then we found that all her favorite restaurants in Anaheim (and thereabouts) are closed by 9 on Sunday night. So we ate at Spoons, which was almost closed.

Kermit the Curmudgeon took us to a delightful Mexican restaurant, and we also visited a Sushi Place (Cho-Cho-San, which sounds like something you get in trouble for) well worth a return trip.

Nice to meet PlusPlus in person. Nice to see Kermit and sons and their lovely new digs. They go from NYC to Nawlins to Agoura Hills. Where will they end up next?

We dropped PlusPlus off at her place after the game and the late meal, and there was all sorts of police activity in her complex. We were glad none of the gun-toting officers of the law chose to shoot at the Kermitmobile.

On our last day in SoCal we saw my cousins in Westwood. Always a pleasure to see them. They then drove us to the airport, and we spent a zillion hours making our way back to NY. Delays, delays, screaming babies, bad food, and too much sleep on the planes messed my internal clock up for days. Maybe still not quite right.

Labor Day weekend and Susan's birthday around the corner. A huge writing project and some killer spreadsheet work also near completion.

Maybe then this blog will resume some sort of normal schedule. Let us hope.

That's it for now.

OH! A few more things: Chris Locke and/or Rage Boy has revived his/their blog. Check it out. Actually, the blog seems stuck in server malfunction, so check out the main page [4], and click over to the blog when you get there.

Doc Searls (he of Santa Barbara fame, above) redesigned his blog [2]. It looks pretty good, although he put up a rather unflattering picture (caricature?) of himself at the top.

In this virtual world, do those of us who maintain blogs reside in a place known as Blogadelphia? The virtual city of brotherly blog?

As I said earlier: that's it for now.