Why haven't I posted????

Hey, post number two in an underwhelmingly small amount of posts. Nice, eh? Yeah, I figure you all don't want to read the dreck that lives in my mind (to be honest, some of it scares *me*) but that's okay, you're here, you're reading, I'm typing, the cycle goes on, right?

To be honest, there's much that I would love to blog, but in this day and age, anything you post in a public forum (and don't think that blogs aren't public, after all, you're reading this and you're not me, right?) immediately becomes part of your history, regardless of how old you were when you posted it.

It's like when a politician gets a ticket for driving drunk when they were 18, and they're running for office when they're 55. Someone will dig it up and use it as an example of what a horrible human being you are because of a mistake you made 37 years before.

Even if you never made that mistake ever again in your life.

The fact is that it's your history and it *will* follow you. The same holds true for blogging. Employers now do web searches on new potential employees to see if the new potential employee is "their" kind of people. And very qualified people have lost an opportunity at a very good, well fitting job because of some college hyjinks.

So because of that, what you get is a sanitized-for-my-own-safety spew of nonsense that truly is "of no consequence" to anyone. But hey, it does let me vent, backspace out what I vented, and then write what you end up reading.

It's sad that in this day and age people have become so overly sensitive to what others think, say or dig up and publish that we have to guard against the possibility that later it may be used against us, and so we have to edit ourselves to the point of bland existence. No thought provoking essays that make you contemplate your navel and do some soul searching to better yourselves and your world. Doesn't that really byte?

Just so you know, I did start ranting about something, but because this is a vanilla blog, you don't get to see it. You have to imagine what I might have gone off about. Yep, you have to use your imagination. If you know me, chances are you'll pick something close to what I was writing that got deleted. If you don't know me, then you'll just have to get to know me, at which point, your brain will also be filled with dreck that will scare you and others, but at least you'll have a fair idea of what I rant about and then delete. Aren't I a terrible person? :)

Right now American Idol is on {tape delayed three hours for the west coast}, it's the top ten (the ones who will all tour together regardless of who wins) and there are a few who I think will make it through to the finals. Carly, David A. and David C. rank high in my estimation of who will make it to the semi-finals. Every so often one of the other contestants do a killer song but they tend to not be consistent. Carly and the two Davids are more consistent with their performances and that's why I think those are the top three.

See? Nothing of consequence here, no world changing comments, no thought provoking statements. Nothing to make you think. Only words to mildly entertain you.

So with that, I take a deep bow, with flourishes, and bid you adieu until the next post.

P.S. I'm glad there's a spell checker but I can't believe "dreck" is not in it! Bye!!!

Tag, you're it!

I had to create an account and a blog page simply to post a comment on my friend's blog. Isn't that silly? Guess that makes me "it" in Google's eyes. Ah well, such is life. Good thing I laid in a good supply of batteries, eh? Looks like we can put pictures into these things too, so I'm going to try. Here goes!



Wow, it worked! Okay, so what's the picture you might ask? Well, I've lived in the Seattle area for 14 years now, and I'd never gone to see the New Years Eve fireworks. Since I won a spiffy Nikon D40X DSLR in August, I decided I was going to go take pictures of the Space Needle when the fireworks display was happening. I drove 25 miles, found a ledge along the interstate that faced the Space Needle, set up my tripod and camera and waited patiently. Finally midnight came and the show started.

Sort of...

Turns out that for the first time in 14 years, they had a malfunction with the firing computer. Did you catch that? 14 years. Exactly how long I've been living here. The one time, fireworks go poof instead of bang and it's the first time I went. Sort of makes one wonder, doesn't it? :)

Anyway, that's a reduced picture, if I manage to find the time, I've posted the full sized picture on flikr if you want to check it out.

Bye!!!