No, dear blog, I have not forsaken you. I have just been so busy trying to get resume and wiki to behave themselves, that I have neglected you. But I have seen how patient you have been, and I want you to know that I really appreciate it. Notebook says hello. Maybe tomorrow we can all go and have coffee together.

Because I overslept, and that’s how much time I have left to fiddle around on the computer before I have to leave for work.

I had a dream that I was learning how to code the Wikimedia infobox templates. The dream gave me a couple of good ideas to try.

*sigh*

Kids, be warned! it’s a trap! If you don’t take off on your own path from the very beginning — and succeed — you get sucked into the “rat race.” Or become a bum. But the dirty trick is that you don’t realize this until it’s…too…late.

One of you rich bastards give me a grant. Time is money, and money is time. Come on, underwrite me, for gods’ sake! No one’s answering. I suppose I’d better go make my lunch and get ready to go spend 9 hours supporting someone else’s dream.

My definition:
When the class you’ve always had overshadows your desperation to hang on to something that was never yours to keep.

Usually I obsess over learning one thing, all the while planning all the marvelous things I’ll do as soon as I’ve become an expert at the first thing.

Well, that doesn’t work. It never has. I get bored and frustrated before achieving that elusive expertise. I can’t wait to move on to the next thing. So I leave a trail of beginnings behind me, like breadcrumbs leading back to the places I intend to revisit, while obsession with new containers keeps me from ever getting around to the content.

I’m trying something new. For the last time, I hope. Not just a shiny new box, but a whole system of packing.

This week, I’ve installed: a Wiki. A blog. A social networking program. A forum. A content management system. A course management system. I’ve been looking forward to all of these since moving to a webhost that can handle them. (Hint: Yahoo! Doesn’t!)

And I’m learning them ALL AT ONCE.

I’m adding content BEFORE I finish, or start, customizing the themes. I know enough to adjust php codes, but not enough to write my own. It’s totally overwhelming, but it’s better than beginning again, and again, and again, and again.

At the end of my life, I’d like to have more to show for it than just a series of beginnings!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

*Edit: Isn’t that nice of them, to get me started like this?*

No one knows.

(That’s not true, actually, it’s backed up on my hard drive. Don’t look for it here.)

The move to a new hosting company has proved to be just as much work as moving to a new house. The packing and the sorting and the throwing away and the storing and the unpacking… and some of you know that that’s one of my favorite pasttimes, so you can imagine the fun I’ve been having rearranging the virtual furniture.