looking at a slant

Having had a day to contemplate as it were, a summation of 2005 from a personal angle.

The books that were to be published will not now be published. That is to say at least not by the people who were going to. I look at it as an oppurtunity to polish more.

Reading over APAD 2005 I am more or less pleased. For spur of the moment poems some of them are not half bad.

I have lost my job effective midmonth, but I really have not lost that much. And the seperation pay gives me time to write and the tech comp monies lets me study for certifications.

I also own a house now. As has been mentioned elsewhere, it has character if nothing else. It also means grounding me in one location for at least a year. Which all things considered is probably a good thing. Time to let the mind do the travelling.

I got to spend three months with kelbardi which is always a plus in any year.

I made new friends, rediscovered some old ones, have actually been social on more than a few occasions.

I got a guitar. Yes I know, I already had 3, plus the banjo and the bazouki and the violin, but a new one is always good. Speaking of which I got an Amiga 1200 and a vintage Mac Power PC..see excuse, I mean reasons above.

Mostly I felt, esp toward the end, that it was a sort of stasis period letting me charge up for 2006,which I have a feeling will prove very interesting indeed.

sporadic but steady quote

"The war isn't the war between the blacks and the whites, the
liberals and the conservatives, or the Federation and the
Romulans. It's between the clueful and the clueless." (an
anonymous poster on cypherpunks list)


alas..it does appear that the clueless are ahead.