{"id":2179,"date":"2007-06-28T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2007-06-28T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T13:45:00","slug":"where-have-all-the-flowers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the flowers gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if it&#8217;s not obvious&#8230; my relationship with LJ has been (in a word) neglectful.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t really anything new&#8230;<img src=\"http:\/\/www.apolo.net\/lj\/post070628.gif\"\/> it&#8217;s been at least 4 years in the making. No really, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolo.net\/lj\/post070628.html\">I did the research. (Cool link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is strange. I like having and giving an opinion. I just haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Posting has become difficult. Work keeps me very busy. So reading and posting at work is unlikely. This of course is coupled with the fact that there isn&#8217;t a whole lot I&#8217;m doing right now at work that I can really give details about. The major facts are out there (yes, Microsoft is shipping an all new version of Microsoft Office for Mac in the second half of 2007)<\/p>\n<p>The smaller details? That&#8217;s either NDA intellectual property or sufficiently geekish-mac-msft-tech than no one would really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Geeky on the side, I&#8217;m playing with Wikis and I really love it.<\/p>\n<p>So.. what about non-work life?<\/p>\n<p>Well, as everyone warned me&#8230; I don&#8217;t have much of a non-work life.<\/p>\n<p>I have life with a nigh-toddler.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Boy fills me with love, happiness, yadda*3.<\/p>\n<p>But he does so at what often-times feels like a cost of everything else.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; why aren&#8217;t I Posting more?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Happy takes up a lot of time and I really don&#8217;t want to cut into the Happy to post about it. I don&#8217;t even get to post about the Happy when relaxing over Chai. (Yes, that was an inside joke. You can ask me al about it some other time)<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the non-happy. I don&#8217;t post about that either. LJ is a wonderful tool. I still to this day adore it, but it&#8217;s gained such a horrible reputation for being the dumping ground of teen-young adult angst and drama.<\/p>\n<p>So, posting only the annoyances doesn&#8217;t seem right either.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: I often consider how individual people interact with me. I basically contemplate what I say to specific people to make sure, I&#8217;m not always behaving one specific way for one person.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes&#8230; There&#8217;s been happy. There&#8217;s been not-so-happy. There&#8217;s been life as a new parent. There&#8217;s been the pursuit of feeling like me and feeling that me is supposed to be around. There&#8217;s been feelings of complete disconnect.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been me.<\/p>\n<p>I keep IM open as much as I can. It&#8217;s pretty much my cell phone. (The latter of which I can now report is once again working) But I don&#8217;t have time to engage people socially. I can interact&#8230; but I just don&#8217;t have the time (and on some level the motivation) to try to create a conversation online. I&#8217;m more than willing to participate in them&#8230; but sadly, I am primarily messaged by spammers.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, the people close to me in my life have kept me far saner over the last few weeks than they know. And I am thrilled for each of them. I am pretty sure they each know who they are. They have also IM&#8217;ed me from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to post more. I&#8217;d like to make some grand statement that I&#8217;m going to start posting more. But this is also part of what is in my life at the moment. Great intention and absolutely horrific follow-thru. Right now, don&#8217;t let Andrei agree to anything. I suppose it&#8217;s just safer that way.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping July improves a notch.<\/p>\n<p><i>Written last evening about 4:30 pm.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2179\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2179\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2179\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if it&#8217;s not obvious&#8230; my relationship with LJ has been (in a word) neglectful. This isn&#8217;t really anything new&#8230; it&#8217;s been at least 4 years in the making. No really, I did the research. (Cool link) Which is strange. I like having and giving an opinion. I just haven&#8217;t. Posting has become difficult. 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