Category: Life

We Don’t Know Yet What the Future Brings

We Don’t Know Yet What the Future Brings

Hello, everyone! Yes, it’s been a few years since I last published any type of updates here on my website. I am alive and well but, as is the case with anyone, my life has changed considerably since the last post in 2012.

For starters, a few major changes have gone down in my personal life. Perhaps most notably, I am now legally bound to another human being, which is something I never saw myself ever doing. Married life has its charms.

As for my career, I now work for a marketing and advertising company thanks to a friend and former co-worker who offered me a job shortly after my former employer and I amicably parted ways after nearly ten years together. The scope of my work now extends beyond real estate, so it’s been nice learning about other industries.

I still retain a passion for board and card games but alas, life’s circumstances don’t allow me the time and resources to play them as much as I would like to, or used to. Coincidentally, when I came back to freshen things up in here, I discovered another review I wrote years ago that I never got around to finishing. I’ll be publishing that review shortly, even if it is wildly out of date.

I recently registered two domain names for a pair of related projects I’m hoping to get mostly off of the ground some time before 2018 is over. I haven’t built a website in years ever since my career began to transition towards web content marketing so I’m trying to get a grasp on today’s modern CMS solutions and which one(s) works best for what I would like to accomplish. If that happens to be WordPress, I will attempt to cross that rickety bridge.

I make no guarantees that I will once again return to a semi-regular posting schedule so for now, let’s just call this a tentative new beginning.

It Gets Better, Or Does It?

It Gets Better, Or Does It?

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yesterday I was reading the news story regarding the high school sophomore who won her place in the homecoming court as a cruel prank that apparently—and wonderfully—backfired on the teens who tried to shame her. As I usually do, I scrolled down to the comments section and some of them caused my gears of reflection to wonder about the past.

Basically, someone mentioned that high school and its various tribulations and suffering it can induce on those who aren’t popular do not reflect what the real world is like which I largely agree with. Mind you, when I was in high school there was no such thing as Myspace or Facebook or all this around the clock “connectedness” that’s now so commonplace. If I wanted to stay in touch with a friend, it was via a good old fashioned phone call on a regular telephone, sending a set of encoded numbers on a beeper, America Online and, if your 28k-56k modem could support it, perhaps a very blurry and choppy encounter via Netmeeting. My time in high school was obviously much different than what it is now. I digress.

The comment got me to thinking of when I attended my high school reunion not too long ago. I initially had no intention of going since there was only one person who I was eager to reconnect with and the chances of her being there were slim to none. After being encouraged by a former co-worker and some family, I decided I would drag my longtime friend who I happened to meet in high school along with me even though she too had little enthusiasm for the whole thing.

As the date of the reunion approached, I actually got more and more excited about the whole thing. Who would I see? Would this classmate that I’d lost touch with for so many years be there? It’d be great to maybe run into so and so.

Ultimately, my over-enthusiasm set me up for disappointment.

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The Upward Swing

The Upward Swing

I was originally going to title this first entry of 2012 “The Year of Living Anxiously” but I decided it wasn’t worth dwelling on events of the previous year that have come and gone and that I’ve thankfully overcome. I will say however that one of the best ways of dealing with uncontrollable anxiety is as simple as discussing what’s triggering the problem with your loved ones, close friends or a health professional. With that said…

This year I made it my mission to start pursuing my interests and one of the first things I’ve done is dabble in photography. I suppose it might have something to do with my passion for writing but for someone who was once very averse to even appearing in photos, I have always held a strong interest in the art despite my lack of discipline or training. I own a bunch of coffee table books from different photographers and themes including an Annie Leibovitz book that I shelled out a lot of money for on eBay than I probably should have. I don’t actually own any sort of coffee table though.

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