Touching Base
Today this blog is one year old, which is ironic considering I haven’t written for quite a while, which hasn’t been fair to my three readers (and after they stuck with me all this time too!) I’ve been sick, unfortunately, for most of this year. The good news is the Veterans Administration found out about me and wanted to know where their missing disabled veteran had been since 1986 (ok, it wasn’t exactly like that, but close enough.) So, now I have medical care, I’m slowly getting well, and I may have a chance at finishing grad school, so all is not lost.
While I was sick (at least sicker than I am now) I got so wrapped up in my own problems that I sort of left the internet. I did a few things here and there, wrote a review on Amazon, but I didn’t check my email (or for that matter my snail mail) for two months. Yes, it cost me some money, but it also cost the feelings of a friend of mine who lives overseas: he thought I had ended the friendship for some unknown reason. I was just so self absorbed with my own fears that I forgot about everyone else. I did a lot of apologizing over it but I was lucky he is one of those people who truly forgive and forget, and do so quickly.
My Google rankings have resolved themselves: If you google “Everything is Shit” you will find this blog on page one of the search, and its been that way for a couple of months, so I guess they decided I’m not affiliated with that Nigerian Prince that keeps trying to give me all that money. Perhaps I was wrong about Google, and they are not shit after all.
In the meantime I made some new friends this year, and they are a riot: a group of Native American Harley riding Trekkies who dress as Klingons and ride around looking ferocious (they are actually some of the sweetest people I’ve met in decades.) I think they want me to to join them in their escapades, but I’m not sure that’s me — I just enjoy their company.