Damn.
There was a possibility that I’d be playing brass carols at the mall tonight as part of an incentive to get shoppers to dump more money into the Salvation Army’s red bucket there. In anticipation of this, I took the tuba out of the case this morning, discovered that two valves (out of four) were pretty much completely frozen, and spent an extra 15 minutes before I left the house getting them cleaned and oiled and movable and yada yada yada.
Then I got an email at about noon informing me that our group wasn’t needed.
Just damn. I was looking forward to learning if I still knew how to play tuba. Maybe next week.
I think I wrote an entry in this’yere blog a year or two ago that described my general blase attitude each December. In fact, I know I did. Maybe I’ll put a link to it in this entry if I remember to later. As a recap, I get incredibly unmotivated to do anything during the last 5 or 6 weeks of the year. This year is no different. I’ve had one project on my plate for the last week. ONE project. Normally, there are no less than 4 lined up and waiting. Now it’s down to one, and my group has decided that we’re going to use the month of December mainly for cleaning up/organizing our web server and rewriting/improving older stuff that can be improved.
One project and then it’s just goofing-off for the rest of the year.
And I just cannot motivate myself to do that one project. Oh, I take a look at it every now and then and I send emails to the person who requested it (just to ask a few questions and let her know that I’m still thinking about it and it’s the most important thing in the world, etc.), but I’m basically just ignoring it. I’ve got the attention span of a bowl of peanut butter these days, and even though I get to work with every intention of taking care of that one project, I end up surfing the web and editing photos and talking to other people in the office and fixing old code and before I know what’s happening, it’s 5:00 and I’m gone.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll take care of that stupid one project.
Today, however, I started a new blog. I mentioned yesterday that I was considering putting it on the tumblr.com platform. After I took a closer look at that solution, I decided to stick with blogger. I could’ve gone the WordPress route, I guess, or just built my own, but blogger is an old friend at this point.
At any rate, I’ll be locking down this blog within the next week or two. If you want to continue to read it (I’ll still be updating it), drop me an email and let me know.
The new blog, which I will attempt to update regularly, is called “Frowsy Noise” and you can click on that title right there if you want to see it. It is not associated with any of my existing email addresses at the moment. If I’m able to lock “Stuff Nobody Reads” down then maybe I’ll move FN under my regular email at some point. Until then, however, it’s out there all alone and it needs your support.
Go ahead. Follow it. Comment on it. It’ll be fun.
TWD