A Return To Writing

Somehow it is March. My great grandmother warned me this would happen. Time slips by faster as you get older. According to the record here, I haven't written anything for public consumption for about four months. Winter has come and almost gone.

I know Spring is arriving. Our trees are beginning to bloom & my wife is gearing up for baseball. At dinner she let me know that spring training starts tomorrow. This is a bad sign. Means the TV is mine for only a month longer. Then into a long season of nearly daily baseball games. Maybe it is a good thing time zooms by faster.

What have I been up to? The end of 2009 was a lot of traveling, at least for me. 2010 so far has been a lot of working the jobs. I have really two, with a side project thrown in from time to time. A lot of learning & building relationships with new people. Mostly fun.

I still play. But not video games any longer. At least not 1st or 3rd person shooters. Hands & head hurt too much. Though I think a turn based tactical warfare game on the iPad would be very cool. Harpoon would be a killer app for me.

LEGO sets are still a good form of therapy. Calms & focuses the mind. I'm planning on attending a Lego convention in Fremont in April - Bricks By The Bay. What an opportunity for me to hang out with other adult Lego nuts.

Music is still very central to my existence (outside of the wife & dog). On the continual hunt for more of it. I buy a lot of used CD's at $2 each out of the bargain bins at the local stores. Amazing what can be had for very little.

I want to write more. Some of the things above I'll expand on a bit later. A list of topics has begun & it is growing, even though I've only started. And I'm supposed to be in charge!

Our white furball is a lot of fun. I'll pull more pictures out of the camera soon. Maybe the squirrels will make a return, wanting their picture posted to the web for the world to see. Ah, the rambling is starting, so it must mean I'm about at my end for the day.

More soon.

-Mike M.