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Posted in: Farming, Frustrations, Life, Technology | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 0 | Date: 18 November, 2008
Some quick updates since I have been away from the blog for a few days. Lots of stuff going on in my life right now and I have purposefully put the blog aside for the past few days. So a few quick things just to get them out there and get a post. Speaking of posts, that is something to note. If I don’t post the traffic flow to the website crawls to a sluggish almost stop. I thought you dear readers hung on every word I had to say and checked in regularly just to make sure I had not said anything. Guess I am wrong on that one. Read more…
Very quick and short blog here. Well, that is the intent as I start this thing out. It was pointed out to me by a friend this eve that the blogs had not been coming through on facebook as a post and that is where she got the information. This really kind of disturbed as I use that quick little button link to do that automatically as a post to my profile, which pushes it out based on some random theory that is only understood by those out there who understand advanced statistical methodologies. As some folks post things that I see right away, others take on average of two to three days to show up, and yet others I see nothing of their posts at all but will yet see them on someone else’s page from comment post. 
I am driving around somewhere the other day and I got really annoyed about the traffic lights. It usually works, especially on stretches of by-passes and main through routes that you get stopped by just about as many lights as there are on the stretch of the road. I have always thought this was kind of lame. After all, the idea of the traffic signals is to keep traffic flowing in as orderly a fashion as possible. In fact what usually happens is the lights retard the flow of traffic by causing excessive amounts of stopping. 
First, a quick lesson or two here about what I am talking about. SMS is short for Short Message Service and is indeed the process by which cell phones and a few 1000 other technological wonders send those little one line messages that in range of 140 to about a maximum of 160 characters in length. So along with SMS, notes on social networks, and even tag lines, I got a few peeves I am going to, ahem, talk about. 
Quick update on my efforts with NaNoWriMo, especially given what it seems to be showing as a status on over there to the right and down just a little bit here on the mephistos blog. I did kick off with some major kick butt writing on Saturday afternoon. I was not feeling well from the head cold that I have had, but spent some major effort in into things. Between huge coffee consumption, taking some pills, and drinking that icky thera-flu stuff, I managed to write a blog or two, put together some additional notes about the novel and keyed in 2019 words. I was very pleased with that amount of wordage for my starting point, especially given that I was not feeling the greatest during the time. 
I admit I am using a play on words in the title. Many is the eve that I am spent in the two places. Ad to that the restaurant that is now in its 2nd or 3rd iteration that used to be a drug store across the corner and Irish Pub down the street named McCarthy’s and you pretty much have my social scene for a large part of my college years, some what during after college and especially after the divorce so many years ago. And to just show how things are cyclical in nature, where did I start hanging out again after things went crazy back in 2007? Gosh, that really seems like it was longer ago then that now. 
This goes back to a note I wrote myself, that originally said, “Recall the trip to the mall a few weeks ago? Yea, you love the awesomeness of a few of the new fashions, but ugh, the expense of it all. And add to that all the people and all the little shops and such and I am just done with it.” That is all 100% true. I do like to occasionally indulge the false sense of fashion that I have go check out things at the mall. I, however would never like to pay mall prices for things as a general rule. And even that checking out what is fashionable or is looking good is getting to be something that I engage in less and less often. Given that the last 10 years, I have only on about five occasions really picked out something myself that was fashionable it makes sense, compared to 20 years ago when I was all about trying to be fashionable. 
I found myself driving yesterday and listened a bit to the radio news and talk shows. There was a lot of discussion by various personalities that indicated that there really probably are not any undecided voters out there still. The general idea was that folks had decided and were not saying how they felt at this point for one reason or another. I personally found this kind of humorous, especialy given some of the blogs and comments that I have been reading from some friends of mine. There are a significant number of folks out there that I think who are still legitimately undecided. 
Those few regular readers have already picked up on the fact that I throw out information regarding technological updates when I am struggling to say the things that are inside my head (and heart) here in the blog-o-sphere. So, yeah, in some ways, I am cheating you by throwing up a technology update, because those are easy to write, require very little outside of my honest opinion on the matter and that is that. Anyway, here are some tidbits to note about technological things from recent days.
I have talked about this once before here in the blog. The idea that sometimes we get all caught up in the ideas of what perfect should be and how it has to be there before acting on the idea, so we end up not acting. I know when I mentioned it before, the whole point of it was to really motivate myself to stop doing that “step back and considering” before I acted on the impulse. Sometimes I do manage to act on the impulse, but rarely on things that are beneficial or helpful. More often, I tend to act on impulse in regards to spending money foolish fashion but tend to act on things only with much thought and consideration when things should just be done. Failure to act on such things tends to leave them undesirable or even ill-fated due to timing when all considerations have been made. 
