Timing is everything

And boy has timing sucked lately. I’ll skim over the part where I’ve been so exhausted that all those thoughts I wanted to think are just piling up in my head. It’s rush hour in there and all the lanes are blocked.

On top of all of that the car is in dire need of repair so it is now at the dealer. We’ve been putting things off for a while and now it’s coming back to bite me in the ass. This is going to be one expensive repair. If I was working I’d probably just buy a new car. And since my car (we’ve been using my wife’s for everything) has been sitting dead in the driveway for six months or so, I also had to rent a car. Our car will be in the shop for about 2 days.

So, all sorts of things happening all at once and not a lot of time to think anything through.

Urgh.

In other words, this is my excuse for not posting anything. But without posts, you have nothing to read and no reason to be here, I must try to correct this.

Is this thing on?

OK, so I disappeared again.

Sorry.

Remember that I said that I was planning on getting started doing things? Well, I tried. It is crushing me. I’m not stopping the new stuff on my schedule but I really need to rearrange everything else. And I really need to just stop every now and then.

You might guess that this is advice that I have yet to take but that I really need to.

Well, not just yet. Sunday is my Mother’s 90th birthday so I will not be slowing down this weekend.

Maybe next week.

Where I’ve Been, or At Least Why I Wasn’t Here

January was an extremely difficult month. To be honest, I never really recovered from last year’s onslaught of doctor appointments. January started off about the same, plus my wife was not doing well. On top of that our dog became very ill and taking care of her was exhausting. We tried our best, but the vet just didn’t have any options left to help her. We had to have her put to sleep last week.

All of that clobbered me – and to be fair my wife probably more than me. I found myself, and find myself, in a position where I am having trouble forming any seriously complex thoughts. Well, they may form, but I can’t develop them or act on them. That extends to things as potentially inane as a blog post (see below, or even right here). This is how a month or a year can just disappear and I have no idea where all the time went.

I’m glad I was treating January as a platform to move off from and not a month in which to accomplish anything major. I still have lots of plans, well, a few, anyway. What I need to do is refine my thoughts and focus on more discrete ideas. Trying to tackle a gestalt concept will just make my head explode.

So, planning and list making and scheduling are the orders of the day – er – month. You know, this might take a while, maybe I should make this a long term project.

How many?

I just replaced two of the luminous orbs in the bathroom fixture, thus answering the age-old question: how many disabled software developers does it take to change a light bulb?

Pointless post to resume posting

Just to summarize, what I was trying to say is not that giving and receiving gifts is the most important part of Christmas. It’s just that I feel lousy because I can’t afford to give gifts. It’s not the gifts, it’s the personal circumstances.

OK. So everyone probably had that figured out already. I had just had to go back to this one more time. I’ll leave it alone now.

Or, I could just post the same thing every few weeks or so. I wrote this a few weeks ago and didn’t post it, but I could keep it up if everyone thinks it’s interesting.

Or not.

OK, I’m kidding, I just wanted to establish some continuity here. I’ll move on now.