A pack of blank papers is this high.  I have this much to grade.  Almost twice as much.  Okay, I know, it's all infused with air and missing words, but still, nearly a thousand papers to grade.  And this is the most important thing that has happened in my life.  Well, no.  Actually the most important thing would be the birth of my baby cousin.  Not baby-baby.  Half my age.  Y'know.  Almost a teen.  Scary.

Programming Note: We're Back...Kind Of

So I've been away awhile.  This site has become a bit of a dumping ground.  I apologize for that.  I erased maybe eighty posts just now, posts for Outside the Boxscore, pictures I didn't want to post and erase at that site because OtB's Ben has it set up so posts will go automatically to a hype site, and we don't want to hype posts that are going to be deleted, do we?  Anyway, that's the reason for that.  The facebook page associated with this site has also been defunct, and I haven't been doing the twitter thing at all.  Of course, I haven't been writing at all, and that's the bottom line for this site.  I haven't been writing because I've been so busy teaching, and writing for OtB.  I'm still busy, but I'm procrastinating and using my furlough Friday to clean up this site.  In general, I don't like throwing things away.  Pack-rat-ism is just one of the many -isms I believe a lot of people are familiar with.  Or something.  However, I did save a few of the pic posts from the garbage days because they're interesting pics and I did want to hold on to some of what this site has been for awhile.

I don't believe in sites that simply say, we're moving good-bye.  Sure, I have a few like that, but in general I like to simply keep pursuits going and simply let them metamorphose.  The problem is my attention is all over the place.  I want to write one story, but it takes thousands of words and dozens of hours, which I just don't have.  A week passes.  Another week.  Now I have another story I want to write.  Do I try to pick up the first one before I pick up the second one?  Do I just leave the first one to flounder?  Do I pcik it all up later on in life?  Who knows.  For now it all just keeps falling down.  That's okay.  As long as something in one's life is rising, you're okay.  In any event, I'm going to try to revive this site.  If anything substantial goes down and gets up, I'll go ahead and send it out to the FB group.  For now, anyone perusing these waters: hi, thanks for coming, stay tuned, join the facebook group.  Hopefully we'll get something going soon.

-S

Oh, a last note, there may be some experimental jab steps from time to time.  I will label them as such.  In fact, here are the labels I'm planning to use in the near future: programming; experimental; completed segment; completed full piece.

If I write more what will it look like will it look better will it feel better how long are my lines and why is my format so small can you see from one side to the other and does the extension continue if you change the size of the window can you scrub up something to eat because nothing is a test just a test anyway but it is a sample size size size size size

How To Avoid Huge Ships (Second Edition)

How To Avoid Huge Ships (Second Edition), originally uploaded by dan mogford.