Friday, October 05, 2007
Where am I?
I am working absolutely monster hours, so my own contributions here have been very thin. So thin, in fact, that my mother called last night because she was worried that something bad had happened to me. The double-edged sword of blogging, I suppose, is that all sorts of people notice when you vanish.
Basically, I'm spending my days learning a new and huge job (at the same company) that sort of dropped on me about a month ago. I spend 7-10 hours a day in meetings of one sort or another, and 3-6 hours in the morning and the evenings dealing with a massive surge in written material, primarily emails that actually demand attention. Suffice it to say that it has cut into the blogging. This too shall pass.
In the meantime, thanks to my co-bloggers for pitching in with always interesting material.
5 Comments:
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Fri Oct 05, 08:46:00 AM:
I was worried, too. I thought you'd committed crimes in the States, and when the locals went nus and tried to prosecute you, your home government, which is paying you outrageous bucks on a shady contract that wouldn't pass muster in any other sector, to do god knows what whilst the real employees are getting about 50 bucks a day are trudging along, spirited you out of the country so you wouldn't be jailed, and...oops...uh...yeah. Wrong travesty. I was thinking of another country and another company. Sorry. How are you doing? Hang in there and no, I'm not coing to Princeton 10/6 for the game.
By 
, at
Fri Oct 05, 10:15:00 AM:
"whilst" - Christopher Chambers
Ah, so you're British. Well, that explains a LOT. What is it about Brits who apparently can't make in the homeland coming to American shores (or blogs) and pestering us? You, Andrew Sullivan, Cory Doctorow (top dog at the left-leaning BoingBoing which just the other day implied that all Republican leaders should be hanged), and the list goes on.
So, why are you pestering us? Aren't there any British blogs you can bug with your incessant paranoia? We're not interested in British opinions anymore -- don't you get it? Go home where you can do some good. Your "voice in the wilderness" approach is just that -- one tiny, insignificant voice in a vast, vast wilderness, and the only place where there's even the slightest chance that it'll any good is in your own homeland.
P.S. But thanks for visiting. :)
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Well, I'm certainly glad we got that little problem taken care of. :)
Tige, blog readers are not hummingbirds.
Perhaps I should explain.
A number of years ago I lived with a nice old lady who had a bunch of hummingbird feeders around her house. My sacred duty was to keep them filled.
One day, one of the feeders got dangerously low and she was almost in tears. It turns out that hummingbirds are very regional when it comes to their food. If a feeder runs dry, they'll go to the house next door and use its feeder, never to return to your feeder (unless the lady next door lets hers run dry).
But blog readers are not hummingbirds.
While you may think we might be worried if you don't post for a while, I'd actually suggest just the opposite is true.
I believe it was two weekends ago that you posted, I believe, FOUR articles on a Sunday, starting at 7:30 in the morning. If we'd been friends, I would have driven over to your house, said "Hi, bud!", then taken a sledge hammer to your computer. Family first, money second, blogging third.
(If for some reason your family was gone that Sunday, then you're excused. This time.)
As far as your 'Help Wanted' article goes, I'm still trying to get over your using the words "accounting" and "exciting" in the same breath. :)
Oh, and as far as this goes:
"Charlottesvillain is TigerHawk's more talented younger brother."
I counted something like 12 grammatical, punctuational, formatting, syntax, and other assorted errors in the three articles he posted yesterday, so hold off on the accolades for the moment. :)
Take the time you need for the job and family, don't worry about us, come back refreshed and full of vigor.
Doctor's orders. :)
By , at
Sat Oct 06, 09:04:00 AM:
I counted something like 12 grammatical, punctuational, formatting, syntax, and other assorted errors in the three articles he posted yesterday, so hold off on the accolades for the moment. :)
Thank goodness you put a smiley face after that comment.
Had you not done so, we might have mistaken it for a mean-spirited, ad hominid attack :p
/departing to absentmindedly scratch her lobotomy scar whilst inexplicably enjoying yet another of the Charlottesvillian's error-ridden posts.
What is this country coming to???
By , at
Sat Oct 06, 09:05:00 AM:
...who apparently left her reading glasses as well :)
Though Mama always said, if you can't say anything nice...
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Oct 06, 11:45:00 AM:
I believe it was two weekends ago that you posted, I believe, FOUR articles on a Sunday, starting at 7:30 in the morning. If we'd been friends, I would have driven over to your house, said "Hi, bud!", then taken a sledge hammer to your computer. Family first, money second, blogging third.
Thing is, I wake up approximately four hours before anybody else in my family on Sunday morning, so my blogging (at least then) does not really cut into family time.
