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Well. It has been a while, hasn't it. Time flies when you get sucked into Facebook.
Seriously. I started out on FB a couple years ago as "Moo Turtle" to have some anonymity and keep the "friends" list down. I'd heard of FB overload. I avoided the "number of friends competition bug". But, I couldn't turn people down who found me. Before long I was spending hours a day commenting on wall posts of dozens of people I'd never met. Yeah, it was fun, but it eventually consumed me.
A couple weeks ago I had to confront the reality that Facebook was virtually my "community". I disabled Moo Turtle. I have to admit I didn't abandon FB entirely. I now have an account with nothing recognizable except my name. I won't "friend" anyone I haven't met face to face, and even then it has to be someone that I have enough connection to that an email once in a while won't do. We'll see how that works. I know now I can click a delete button and not look back.
So. I want to get back to what I loved doing BFB (Before Face Book): writing, cartooning and podcasting.
A lot has happened the last 6 months. It will take a few blog posts to chronicle and comment about. The basic outline is this:
1. New career: screw guns, hammers, ladders and saws to Excel Spreadsheets, email, cubicle and reports.
2. Old career: as soon as I got a new job, construction picked up. Can I leave my old lover?
3. Family: Parents are aging, health issues, uncertain futures, children with new horizons.
4. Goofodoxy: Church related issues, transitions and hard decisions about Church.
5. General observations on life, cancer, cars, ice cream, TV's, carports, dogs, turtles and stuff.
If you used to follow closely, I hope you will check in once in a while again. It may take me a few weeks to get back into the swing of blogging (which, by the way, has been deemed "old school" by the Twits). There's a lot going on and in between dealing with what's going on, I hope to chronicle it here and make it worth your time to check in.
Lucy! I'm home!
Well, of course it's about my life and stuff I think about. Just like a quadzillionbazillion other bloggers. I'm obsessed with God. I love beauty, enjoy absurdity, dance with despair, seek silence, and think everyone is goofy. Here's my world and what I think of it....
35 comments:
Goody gumdrops!
YES! We've missed you.
Yea...you're back!
I've really missed you too--and so glad you're back!
And it's good to have you back. Ive really missed you!
Yay!! You were missed!
welcome back! :)
I'll miss you on FB, but I'm glad you're back blogging. And check back? You're in my Google Reader feed, Steve. I never *stopped* checking back.
Welcome home!
I resonate with some of what you say about Facebook - blogging beats Facebook any day!
I'll miss you on FB too but I think blogging is much better. I'd far rather read one blog post a week from someone than FB updates all day!
Well done.
Facebook has its uses, but it's no substitute for blogging (nor for mailing lists and newsgroups).
Ricky? Is that you?
Best news I've read all week! Looking forward to it.
(another) Elizabeth
Glad you're back blogging :-)
I've cut back on FB and picked up my blogging again too !
Welcome back. I've missed you!
Glad to see you back.
Thanks God, it's a safe bet, Thanksgiving is finally over!
We missed you, I have the same rule on FB for the same exact reason. I have found that some Orthodox friend every clergyman they can find. I can instantly recognize someone who does so by my kindhearted brethren who won't deny any requests. I personally did not want to make it so difficult to find people who I've actually met in my list of friends.
Glad to see you are back....and I promise I won't go looking for you on Facebook.
come on...
I've missed your orthographs :(
We want orthographs! we want you blogging again!! And of course I didn't stop chekking regularly.
(I don't have a facebook account, neither twitter, nor google!!)
This is certainly my hope for most of those who use FB. As I did the same some time ago, I would welcome a move by more and more back to blogs.
Great news, you have been missed...
Good to have you back. Anxious to get caught-up on things.
Welcome back! I missed your posts a great deal!
Am I the only one who's going to miss you on FB? I don't have your email address!
:*(
However, your thoughts in blog form are, and have always been, superior. (My thoughts have only been expressed in FB form lately too...probably ought to remedy that...)
I hope "Goofodoxy" is available for use in the public domain because I am going to wear it out. Welcome back.
Any chance Moo is still willing to be photographed so strangers (weirdos) like me can get a laugh? I miss the ol' chap. :)
And also I missed hearing from you too. Didn't want you to feel left out haha
Steve, I did the same thing. I deleted my old FB and now am friended only with a small circle of people I know well and who know me well. I also cut way back on the liked pages (another real time drain). I am glad to see you back here. I am not planning to go back to blogging. I write in my journal instead. On paper. With a pen. With ink. Real paleolithic stuff.
Hugs,
B. Joanna
FB can be a time and energy drainer, works for some and not for others. Glad to see you back blogging -- long form fits you well.
Well I miss you on Facebook, Steve. I loved that turtle! But I'm glad you will still be around.
Glad to see you'll be blogging more. I'm interested to learn more about your thoughts on 'Goofodoxy'
Jason, most of the "Orthographs" and Curmudgeophan cartoons etc. are from "Goofodoxy". That said, I may do some blog posts and who knows...I even have some video ideas, about it too.
Steve, yes of course, now that you mention your Orthographs (which are awesome by the way) 'Goofodoxy' makes perfect sense. Vidoes of Goofodoxy would be cool--I say go for in all your 'spare' time! :) Thanks for your efforts and keep up the good work!
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