The Vast Conundrum

One of my pet peeves is when people mark their messages as “urgent”. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve never gotten an “urgent” message from anyone except perhaps from the same people who mark every message they send as urgent. Since I only have one person who regularly calls me on the phone anymore, when I hear “urgent message” at the top of a voicemail, I know who sent it, and I delete it un-heard and un-lamented. It is one of the most annoying things to me, and I only wish there were some way for me to remove the option from my voicemail.

I really hate telephones. I like my smartphone, but I’d like it a lot better if it couldn’t be used for phone calls. Someone recently told me it was a form of PTSD from my Wall St. days. I think it’s true.

And this is how years somehow get past me. I feel like the last post was maybe a few days ago at most.

Been a long time since I wrote anything here. WordPress has tags now. Lots of shit has happened. Billy went into the beyond, the economy imploded and took my consulting business with it, I left Brooklyn, stayed with my father for 9 months, left when my undesired self become an unwelcome one, returned to Port Jefferson for a few months, then moved to Miller Place. Odds are, I’m moving again within this year. Piss. Broke. All the fun that goes with that. Got my driver’s license again (don’t ever let yours expire!), but no car.

I feel like I need to write again, and this compartment feels like the place to do it. We’ll see. There is another compartment. This is where I’ve gone in the past, when I wanted to write, and wanted either no audience or an audience of strangers. Most of what got written here was private or public and shortly lived. If I can keep my nerve up, I’m going to reveal the URL to a very few people. I’m not sure who they’re going to be yet because I’m not sure what I’m going to write yet. But if you know me and you find your way here on your own, don’t read too much into my not telling you about it. My thinking on the subject wouldn’t make sense to anyone but me, and is not a reflection of you.

I decided to swap out Red Train for a copy of GreenTrack that I’ve widgetized myself. For some reason, I seem partial to old skewl WP themes that aren’t even widgetized. I don’t think I’ve got the desire or willpower to bring another WP 1.5 template up to WP 3 specs though. I keep telling myself it doesn’t matter what theme I use, and I keep going back to the repository looking for minimalist themes, but I never end up choosing one. There’s a certain “feel” I need here, I don’t know why.