Hey look, I came back. Its been so long that I was almost surprised the blog was still on here and not deleted by the server from inactivity. It has been eight months and twelve days since the last time I edited a post on here. That’s a long time for me to stay away and actually come back. Of course I wasn’t away by choice, so I guess I wanted to be updating and not able. Where have I been? Well, is so nice that you ask. The simple answer is that I haven’t had the internet capability to get on and update. Although that isn’t completely true, it is still the answer. See my computer broke back in late spring 2010. I was still updating on my computer at work after that but it just didn’t work out at times. In July, after my last post, I decided to take a short break from the blog because I had hit a wall and couldn’t come up with how I wanted to say anything. Then at the beginning of Winter I was getting ready to start blogging again, when I lost internet connection at work. This wasn’t due to a computer breaking or change in job, it was actually a discipline action that I didn’t fully agree with, but I am not going to get into that right now.
So, this left me with two options for typing and communication. The first is my iPhone. I like my phone, I am almost addicted to using it, but it isn’t exactly what I think of first when I am looking to type a few hundred words. I went as far as downloading the WordPress app for my phone and even typing a full post. That is a post that no one will ever read because I plan to delete it. With all the mistakes and what nots from trying to type on a phone and keep up with my thoughts, is a mess that I don’t even want to read just to edit and fix. So, the iPhone was out for doing more than comments and rereading my posts, and it is great for that. I recommend the WordPress app to anyone with a smart phone. They make one for almost all of them now I think. It is great for minor edits, comments, reading posts, and so on. I just don’t think I could use it for more than a short post for actual posting.
Now I also had an older computer that I have that my brother put to gether for my dad at some point. The real issue here is that until last month I didn’t have internet, the internet card in this old machine barely works and doesn’t pick up the neighbors internet half the time, that they said I could use if I needed, and the computer is most definitely not mobile. It is an older Windows tower and I wasn’t going to get it online, and it wasn’t from a lack of trying. I also didn’t want to pay for an internet connection for a computer that ran so slow and that I didn’t really have room to keep set up.
So that is the answer to where I have been. Nothing has worked out for me to really be online for about six months, outside of the intermediate online activity I get from my iPhone. At this point I have internet at work again, I have a new computer at home that I just bought last month and I have full internet at my house get it, and that older computer, online. I’m back. I am still working on getting a lot of neglected things up to date with having the computer back, things like family pictures and playing around, so I make no promises on when I will be back in the swing of typing like this, but for now I can at least do it during a boring day at work. Although because of the thing that happened late Fall to early Winter, I will do most of that in txt that I email to myself and post later from home. Trust me, it’s a long story I don’t want to tell and you don’t want to read.
