Sometimes I feel my life is a Dinosaur Comic

76.  I’ve kept a digital diary since Sunday, November 19, 2000.  Nobody will ever read it, but it’s really whiny and tells a lot of secrets that I’ll take to my grave.  I’d delete it, but it sort of reminds me of how far I’ve come: now I whine to the world.

Dear World,

I was going to print a comic today.  Then Photoshop stopped working.  I fear that the people that sold me this machine were only letting me use the program for a few months before they reclaimed it.  I e-mailed them as soon as Photoshop announced it was shutting me out and they seemed genuinely concerned for a few steps, advising me to do things no non-hacker would know how to do.  I only grew suspicious when they offered to help pay for me to ship my laptop to them to ‘fix,’ but were unwilling to do the same for the far cheaper installation CDs.

Then I was going to put up one of those newfangled ‘podcasts,’ until I realized that my friend and I have no idea what we’re doing and what we produce looks like poo.

So instead, I’m going to tell you all that I’m going to quit blogging.  At least for the foreseeable future.

I mentioned two weeks ago that I was going to be traveling the world for the next few months (but not to any new places.  New places scare me).  I tried to write triple the blog posts over these past few weeks (in order to build up a backlog), but then I realized I wasn’t Stephen King and that I only really ever had one talking point for any given day.

Since I wasn’t very good at updating when I traveled last year, I won’t even try this year. This means that after May 20th (when I leave), May 29th (my birthday), or June 4th (when I finally reach 100 facts about me), I won’t be updating until mid-August.

Please subscribe to my feed or contact me if you wish to be updated when I come back.  I’ll remind you about this on whichever day I decide will be my last.

p.s.  I just donated $65 to the World Food Programme (because they’ve already gotten a few tonnes of food and medicine into Myanmar).  I’ve made it a recurring donation, because I’ve decided to donate at least 1 percent (and possibly 2 percent) of my yearly income to charity.  This means that I’mna donate some $250-500 per year for the next few years, possibly to other charities as well.

p.p.s.  I keep meaning to update my blogroll.  Apologies to those not currently on it.

76.  I’ve kept a digital diary since Sunday, November 19, 2000.  Nobody will ever read it, but it’s really whiny and tells a lot of secrets that I’ll take to my grave.  I’d delete it, but it sort of reminds me of how far I’ve come: now I whine to the world. Dear World, I…