Teyrnon

There was a time when Saturday nights tended to be very interesting. I miss those times. Even the really weird stuff. Especially the weird stuff, actually. Like the time K and I had to crawl through a rather musty tunnel after that barn collapsed while we were in it. Okay, that was actually a Saturday afternoon, though the night that followed wasn't any less interesting. We visited another buddy of ours who, for want have a better term, was having an existential crisis. I miss K.

Another memorable Saturday night was, well actually I think I'm still under an NDA about that one. No matter.

At anyrate, tonight I'm bored and lonely. Bored, bored, bored...

I know nobody gives a damn but Sunday was my birthday. Not surprisingly I got nary an email, phone call, IM, or card. Eh, well. That's life I guess, forgotten and alone.

Well, I'm still breathing. It's a new year and I'm feeling hopeful this will be a better year than the preceding couple years have been. I'd make a new year's resolution but as the year is new it's hard to say where things are going so any specific resolutions I might make are out and I'm not inclined to conjure up any generic ones for the moment. Not much new to report, I still have this odd feeling that a large chunk of my life is on hold and waiting for something. What exactly I've yet to discern.

I'm going to attempt to be down in Atlanta in the near future to visit a couple libraries. Among other things I need to get to somewhere that has an OED. If I do get to do this it's going to have to be an all day thing since for all intents and purposes I'm going to be stranded in the area from morning to evening. Hopefully nothing goes wrong. I figure after I get the little research done I'll visit a few old haunts. Is Oxford Comics still where it was? I haven't been there since 2004 or so. I know Sword of the Phoenix closed in 2005 sadly.

I haven't been on MARTA since about the middle of 2004. I find myself wondering if there have been any significant changes with MARTA in the last three years. Hmm...What's a Breeze Card? Hmm, and what's the current fare rate I wonder. I believe it was $1.75 the last time I rode. I still have a token or two from the last time.

In other news I'm still trying to decide whether I want to go ahead and redesign the top page of my web site or not. I like it as it is but I realize others might find it dull and boring in the layout and graphics. Oh well. I posted a request for feedback but only one person responded, I really don't know how to take that, Could be a sign of whether anybody much reads my posts. :)

It feels strange noting this but I've kept the same email address and webspace since 13 January 1998. Before that I'd used The INDEX System as my main internet email provider.
( further thoughts on long standing contact data )

Now I find myself pondering dropping my Mindspring/Earthlink account and moving my webpages to another provider. I've had BellSouth DSL for a year now. Earthlink couldn't provide me with DSL out here, so after the move I switched to dial-up and kept looking for broadband options and eventually ended up going to BellSouth FastAccess. I've kept my Mindspring account for the reasons I mentioned behind the cut above.

Anyrate, I'm pondering moving to a web hosting provider. frostedelves has suggested one that looks very promising, indeed. Do any of you have any web hosting sites that you've been really impressed with?

LogJam really does make posting entries easier. Maybe too easy. The last few entries probably wouldn't have been made without it. Which given my mood of late probably wouldn't have been a bad thing. Nobody wants to see me whine and grumble on the internet. Least of all, me.

The house has been very quiet the past couple weeks and yet I have not been overly productive. Okay, not particularly productive at all. Hopefully this'll change in the coming weeks. I need to get back in touch with some old contacts that I've neglected these past few months. Between my mother's extended ICU stays and then her death I haven't really felt like dealing with much of anything of late. I don't know that I'm feeling like myself again but the world doesn't seem quite as drab and dreary as it has recently so I'll call that a sign of improvement.

At the insistence of my dear friends sdaemon and frostedelves I've signed up with livejournal. This here is my first entry. I don't have a clue what I'm going to do here. Like as not the entries that I'll make here will be sporadic at best; time being what it is.

At the moment I have nothing to say. I kept looking at the empty journal page and thought it looked so sad and lonely being so blank so I thought I had to enter something even if it is just a few excuses for saying nothing at all in as many words as possible.