arc of time

yup.

so you know the blogging has been going slow and the readership is down when your blog goes down for more than two weeks and you don’t even notice.

when, in fact, it takes someone returning from a four month stay in another country to point out to you that the thing is not loading at all.

still not sure what happened, but a chat session with bluehost support this morning resolved it and we are back.

now instead of white noise, you can start at this post for the next two weeks….

kidding. i am going to try better.

yes, it has been awhile. i know. and i need to fix this blog. the banner looks like garbage and i just haven’t gotten around to it. i promise to rededicate myself here.

i have been suffering some pretty sever jet lag and that is part of it. the other part is depsite the jet lag i have been somewhat busy.

i did run my 12 miles on sunday afternoon. i bolted on my original plan to do it friday morning in geelong, because it just seemed too much. then i planned to do it sunday morning but i just couldn’t get up.

so i went to cinema club wth jlw and kim and then did it. it was a great run too. no doubt i struggled with the lag form the flight the day before, but it was great.

and i need to get the pix of japan up on flickr. i am doing that for sure tonight.

promise.

well obviously not blogging here.

i am not sure why. some of it is the twitter phenomena. some of it is that things seem to be stale right now. but mostly i have just been lazy. i have been doing a decent job of keeping up a regular blog schedule at the atlanta metblog but not here.

i am waltzing matilda down to geelong australia tomorrow, though, and i hope to do some semi-regular updates from there. it’s mainly work, but i am definitely hoping to get something out of it as well as a tourist.

anyway, stay tuned. i have been through droughts before and i always come out of them.

it seems like i haven’t posted at all this week and looking back on things this is actually very true. part of it is just being very, very busy at work and being to stressed at the end of the day (work stress is rare for me) to write on the bus or in the evening.

also, we were talking about this the other night at an impromptu tweetup at the park tavern; twitter and facebook (i am to lazy to code in the links, and c’mon, really?) actually depress blogging. they give us a much faster outlet for certain things that a blog and probably mean that certain items that would have been blog posts end up being tweets or facebook status updates. the consensus at the table among everyone who was also a blogger (including maigh and paulie, both excellent bloggers) is that posting is down across the board.

the revitalization of the atlanta metblog is coming along nicely. james started writing this month and we have more writers and some other fun stuff coming soon.

and i promise to continue to keep this space somewhat open. having it means to much to me….

last week was hell so sorry about the dearth of posting.

just a couple of things to catch up on. my dad got out of canada last tuesday and is doing much better. i got home on sunday and promptly got sick as hell with it coming out both ends. it was one of the worst 36 hour periods imaginable. that pretty much destroyed last week for anything useful.

i’m back now though and should be up this morning with a funny marta post about my adventures this morning.

also, if anyone knows of someone with experience owning a dogs that is developing aggression and might be interested in helping rehab one, please pass them my way….

my buddy, ben k, is the latest edition to the atlanta blogosphere with his atlanta real estate blog, terminal station.

ben has a passion for atlanta and a good understanding of real estate and development in the city.

check him out, he is a good edition to the feedreader.

i finally upgraded my wordpress install after a loooooong time. i seriously would have to go back and search to figure out how long ago it was.

anyway, i am on wp 2.5 now, and i continue to be amazed just how easy wordpress is to modify. if you are thinking of getting into blogging it is of course the tool to use.

you can learn more at wordpress.org.

oh, i also decided after a few years it was time for a new header. like it?