For two years and change here I've beaten on the keys like one of the other infinite monkeys at infinite keyboards, shared a few laughs and pics, bared my soul (and various body parts) to the world. Even so, I'm forced to close down for a while. Thanks to layoffs, employee moves, and other circumstances beyond my control, workload at MomCorp has gone to soul crushing levels. When people who don't see you every day start asking pointed questions about how you're feeling, you know it's getting bad. I have fevered dreams of former employees chasing me down long corridors that I can never reach the end of and, curiously, of hot dog trucks.
Besides, a few brief minutes on Facebook every day yields fantastic and immediate response. I could spend hours clanking away here and never know if anyone read it, or even if they cared to. Yet I tell people what's happening to me in 20 words or less and BLAMMO! I have comments, jokes, asides, brimming friend requests, fame, fortune! I've connected back in with a large group of high school friends, found a few old college folks (if I only knew more last names; you can't get far on a search for "Dave"), and I can still post longer entreaties there as well. Granted it would be nice to not have every family member, co-worker, "friend of a friend of a... do I even know you?" know the minutiae of my life in painful detail, but to have that interactivity is enough for me.
Plus, I have a new idea for another blog (as the crowd rolls their eyes yet again, groaning). It is a respectful nod to Mister Jalopy, Coco's, and Craigslist. I leave you that to ponder, dear reader.
