Back in Black
Well, it’s been a long time out of the blogging business, and there’s no better time to get back in. I’m married now, and I’m happy. The rest of my unit is deploying to Iraq and beyond, and I am being left behind like an inconvenient turd. But I can’t feel angry. You can’t feel angry about the same stuff forever.
I’ve seen personalities suffocated before. In fact, I’ve seen more casualties of the beauracracy than I’ve seen casualties of the enemy– I’m not a front-line soldier, and I’ll admit it. But I think that stagnation is a test of character little different from any other– the strong will push through. If you have no direction, make a direction. If there is no direction, tread water, breathe, and keep your spirits up.
One thing that’s become clear to me as I’ve looked back over the material on the site is that there isn’t really one unified theme– and that’s fine. It’s not a novel. Anything I post here adds to the knowledge pool of the internet, and if everything else fails I can let Google sort it out. Also, I plan on being alot less vague and mysterious about my personal details now. I think that some modesty is certainly called for, but it shouldn’t interfere with the understandability of what you’re trying to say. I’m not gonna be a spy, so I’ll just get over it.
In other news, the torrential downpours this past week have been good fun. I’m hoping they drowned all the fire ants, and put the resovoirs back up to pre-drought levels.