Separation
Disconnected from the “tubes” for a few days due to being in rural Louisiana, would’ve posted earlier but couldn’t because of that. Hopefully I’ll remember to include everything in this post I thought about and wanted to include when it happened. » Continue Reading…
There will come a day when kids won’t know what “rewind” means. Thankfully that day hasn’t yet come, so I’m not explaining the term itself.
This post is to note that I’ve setup a “rewind” blog tag that I’ll be using for some old stuff I’m posting as if new. I could probably mess with the post dates if I wanted to, but I won’t be doing that. Instead I’ll just mention in these “rewind” posts what the actual date of the post content is, then continue the post as if it were a recent event.
Why do this? Because we took a month-long trip to Indonesia last year that’s probably way more interesting than most of what we do from day to day, so I’m not about to leave that great material unused! So most of the “rewind” posts will be from that trip, although some things we’ve done between then and now will make the cut as well.
And just to show how much of a rebel I am, not to be confined by normal blogging decorum and protocol, here’s a photo from the distant past of 2006. I’m doing it just to prove a point. So there.
Blast from the past
Millions of blogs out there, few of them worth the paper they’re printed on. (Is that like complaining that the free beer you’re drinking isn’t all that great?) So why add another?
- My parents live 1/2 a world away, literally. Their local time is 13 hours ahead of Central Time, 12 if Daylight Saving Time. Our daughter is 2+ years old and getting more interesting every day. Our weekly webcam chat goes a long way to ease the longing, but I imagine it’d be nice to get the occasional fix now and then. And my mother-in-law lives 6 hours drive away, which isn’t that far but not a quick drive either. My sister lives in D.C., and most of my in-laws are about 2 1/2 hours away. So for all of you affected by the Pamudji diaspora, this Bud’s for you.
- Some things I do might be interesting to others. Yes, I’m probably as oblivious to how boring my life is as are the multitude of bloggers out there blathering on about their contrived drama and twittering about what color their poop was this morning (parental vocab; can’t be helped). But I sincerely hope I can provide some joy, insight, amusement, information, etc., for some total strangers out there. I don’t aim for this to be a hugely popular blog, but I hope some of you out there will enjoy the bizarre juxtaposition of having an Indonesian in the middle of Mississippi and all the strange melting-pot weirdness that comes out of that.
- I am by nature a critic. I destroy things. I blow up stuff, pick apart forum posts, argue till the cows come home about some ridiculous minutiae. This is my chance to contribute and put myself in harm’s way by creating and letting my work be judged by others. I look forward to any comments I receive about my photos and posts, both supportive and critical. I need to be pegged down a few notches every once in a while, and although starting a personal blog can often be a self-aggrandizing exercise, hopefully I’ll use this one as part of my sanctification process. Nobody’s perfect. Some of us just need to be gently reminded of that fact from time to time. If I can also use it as a creative outlet and contribute rather than just bashing things all the time, all the better.
Why now? I’ve been thinking about doing this for some time, but just never had the time nor the willpower to get the ball rolling. Getting started is always the hardest part, except for drugs and smoking for which stopping is the hardest part. So this is the beginning. No better time than the present and so on.