So you ever meet someone at a party, or your first day of work, or some other social situation? You get introduced to someone, but you didn’t quite hear the name, and 1000 people are coming at you. You see the guy again a few days later, and he says hi, but you’re busy with some paperwork or a phone call, so you don’t try to catch his name then. Then a week goes by and another week, and finally, you’ve been working with a guy or living next to someone for 2 months but you have NO idea what his name is.At that point, it’s just too awkward to ask, because you sound like an idiot. Now you have to find a smooth way to work back into an introduction, but there’s no good way to do that. Every day that goes by, it’s more awkward, and OF COURSE he knows your name, so that just makes you the jerk!
Well, as odd as the analogy sounds, that’s exactly what happened on this half-ass site. I took a break briefly because I had a ton of things going on. Then every week that I got further and further out of habit, it became harder and harder to find time to write. And when you realize that a grand total of 4 people are following your ramblings on your latest trivial interest, it’s hard to stay motivated. Eventually, 1.5 years go by, and you want to start up again, but you have no good way to get back to it.
So here we are. In the last 1.5 years, my wife and I have had about 5 job crises, a graduation, a new job (for her), a promotion – of sorts (for me), 2 nephews born, 2 sisters wed, a mother-in-law remarried, financial struggles, a family cancer diagnosis, and 3 miscarriages. And I also got a Playstation 3.
Yesterday, I heard my future child’s heartbeat for the first time. That’s neither here nor there, but while I’m listing my recent history, I thought I should top it off with that.
I’ve decided to get started writing again. My incredibly inflated ego will almost assuredly continue to harbor grand delusions that I’ll have an ever-growing thong of admirers. In reality, I’ll be lucky to have the same 5 people reading my crap that used to do so.
That being said, I need a clean restart. I mean, it worked for Batman – why wouldn’t it work for me? I’m still working on developing some sort of regular theme beyond “The Jim’s Stupid Complaints”, but that may be all we get. I’ll still keep this site up as an archive (because – again - my inflated ego thinks an archive of my brilliance is required).
I’m going to spend a week or two coming up with the next step, and I’ll post updates here to redirect to the new place.
Until next time,
The Jim
