The Glass is Too Big - Home

While my writing on this site has definitely gone through boom and bust cycles, the last 6 months' worth has been the biggest bust since I started regular writing online. If I were super-paranoid, the thought might occur that when I stop writing, the economy hiccups as well. Fortunately, I know the difference between correlation and causation and can't take the blame for global financial disaster (which is good because I'm not up for being a worldwide scapegoat).

I've spent this entire dry spell working like a mad man (along with some personal and family issues). The work's been on a project for what's become my only client during that time. I'm loving the work, but putting in some insane hours to try to get it out the door by April and that's left little time for ANYTHING else. While the pressure is stressful, the work itself is a blast and confirms how great it can be to do what you love for a living. The fact that I'm raking in the ducats in the process doesn't hurt either.

This morning, the president of the company where I've been doing this work mentioned that he took a look at this site as a result of taking a look at my LinkedIn profile. At that moment, I felt a pang of knowing how seldom it's been updated lately. Given how I have "Software Consultant, Writer and Geek" as my email signature, shining a light on my patterns prompted a bit of reflection on my inclusion of "Writer" in that signature.

Writing has always helped me clarify my thinking, work through my own questions and issues, helped relax me and lots of other benefits that I'm not willing to give up permanently by abandoning my "writer" identity. So, on the drive home tonight, I did some thinking about what exactly keeps me from posting. I was somewhat surprised to find my own standards for what constitutes a proper "post" has drifted upward to longer articles and tutorials, which sets a much higher threshold to clear before posting something.

SO, I decided that it's time to resurrect this sorta dead zombie site into something resembling life. Part of that is to reset my own ideas of what kind of thing I post here, which likely means more short posts and probably more frivolity.

As always, though, the point of this site is a place for me to talk about whatever I'm interested in. If you happen to be interested in the same kinds of things, it'll probably be a good change.

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