Enemy of Entropy
Thing-A-Day With Me!
I know that Hope and Juliann are doing it — anybody else? Any other Blog365 participants should note that it will be a great source of blog ideas, and I know we all need those at this point.
Further Prof of Insanity: Blog365
I got through NaBloPoMo, as ridiculous as it was to commit to posting at least once a day for a month. So of course that small success has led me, in a moment of more-than-usual-lunacy, to sign up for Blog365 (otherwise known as “Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire”).
The purpose is fairly clear: to post at least once every day of 2008. February 29 is a “rest day.” Posts may be written on any site, rather than sticking to just one blog, so I’ll try to spread them around on mine/ours. If I can’t get something on the actual site on a particular day due to net connection issues or whatever, I have to write (yes, write! like, cuneiform or something!) a journal entry and transfer it to a blog as that day’s entry.
It would be far simpler to have a system of some sort. Maybe I’ll create a rotation:
- Fibrant Living — health, living with a disability, podcasts
- Academy Caritas — homeschooling, education, college
- House Fireheart — polyamory, particularly my and Sam’s approach to it
- Heartsong Handicrafts — home of my original needlework patterns, and soon to be home for the rest of my stitching information
- Cyberstalked! — internet safety and privacy issues
- Cynthia Armistead — my professional portfolio, where I put the geeky stuff
- Enemy of Entropy — here, of course, where I put general stuff, book reviews, and the like.
Hopefully there will be new podcasts up soon. There will definitely be more music, as we have that lovely concert piano we received via freecycle all repaired and put together. It’s beautiful and sounds great! Not at all bad for one drive to pick it up and less than $200 in repair fees! (Sam wanted to just take it to the nearest authorized repair center rather than doing it ourselves.)
2007 wasn’t a stellar year, but neither was it terrible. Sam has a steady, secure job that he enjoys, in an organization that’s allowing him to advance. , Katie had a lot of health problems, but I’m hoping that we’re on the right path to resolving them. Shelley passed away a little shy of her 18th birthday, but since we’d been told in 1999 that she only had a year (at most) left, we felt that we’d gotten an “extra” 8 years with her anyway. Kioshi has grown into a nice companion, too.
We really kept to ourselves a lot through the past two years. When you’ve been betrayed and hurt as deeply as we were by our former housemate’s sudden craziness in 2006, there’s a lot of healing to be done. I don’t know if I’ll ever approach Thanksgiving without trepidation again, but we had a good one anyway. The stress did contribute to the deterioration of my health, and that does make it harder to get out. We’re working on it, though. We certainly learned who our true friends were, and we’ll never forget that.
So on to 2008, which we hope to be full of more time with friends, better health, much more music, Katie spent last night and almost all day today with friends from the school she was attending as well as her new beau. Sam and I spent the day gaming, upgrading some web sites, eating good food and watching movies. If it’s true that whatever you do on January 1 indicates how your year will go, we should be just fine.
I Did It!
If you look way, way down the sidebar to see the calendar thingie, there’s at least one post on every single day of November!
Lazy Day & Posting Articles
It has been such a lazy day. All our body clocks are completely confused. It’s going to be so hard on Sam to get up Monday morning!
These days have been sweet and uncomplicated. I just had a delightful candlelit bath, with my storyteller staying with me the whole time. I am very, very sleepy now.
I’ve put this off for a time out of sheer laziness, I suppose, but it’s past time to move the rest of the articles on this site into WordPress. I don’t know how long it’ll take me to work through them, but I’ll try to space them out a bit so as not to flood the feed. I’ll try to remember to use the “more” tag, too.
I can’t just dump the HTML into posts or pages, because there’s always something that’s outdated, or that I would put differently now. And, of course, I’m trying to do this migration without leaving a bunch of broken links, which means setting up redirects as I go.
Yes, I know that I have obsessive-compulsive disorder. It’s officiously diagnosed and everything. No, there’s nothing you can do or say that will relieve me of feeling that I had to go through every single article.
Oh. To be more accurate than above, I’ve put this off due to sheer perfectionism, which is highly susceptible to procrastination for exactly these kinds of reasons.
What Happens When You Read the News?
I can’t remember the last time I even considered seeking news anywhere but online. Whether it’s what’s going on around Atlanta, the nation, or the world, or just a weather update, I look there first if at all possible. Since I’m at home and can check in throughout most of the day, it’s easy for me to get near-constant updates on whatever is going on. I use quite a few different sources, to get a balanced news diet, but between RSS feeds and email updates that’s incredibly easy. I can always follow links to the originating web sites, and cross-check other sites (which I like to do) to get more information on anything that really catches my attention.
In turn, I feed the information to my family. I suppose most people do that, in one way or another, and I greatly appreciate the links received from friends via Twitter and the like. I don’t pass everything on to Sam and Katie, of course — just the stories that I know to be of interest to them.
Unfortunately, I can’t always refrain from telling them about stories that are particularly disturbing to me. Sam, in particular, really doesn’t want to hear about such things, which is one reason he doesn’t read the Atlanta paper. I feel a need to stay abreast of current events, but also need an outlet for my frustration.
Guess what? This is it!
Yep. I’m going to try to limit my outbursts to written ones, and this is the place I’ll be using for them. You can always skip the articles if you don’t like them. It’s much harder for the family to just not hear me, and I place a high value on peace in the household.
