I feel like I haven't posted much of anything substantial here, except for one entry that was an accident and that I hadn't intended to publish yet, in over a month.<\/p>\n
Partly that's mullygrubs. Been kind of down about a bunch of stuff lately.<\/p>\n
Partly it's being sick and tired. This cold has lasted a full month and counting. The past week or two it's been mostly gone, just a couple of brief bouts of coughing a day—but Saturday morning, I woke up to an extended coughing fit after only a few hours of sleep, and by the end of the day was so tired that I had to skip a friend's birthday party. (I got all ready to go, and then realized that I wasn't going to be able to stay awake for an hour's drive each way.)<\/p>\n
Partly it's feeling like I don't have a lot I want to blog about lately; I kind of got out of the habit. That's probably not really true; there are always dozens of things I want to write about. But there've been half a dozen times in the past week when I've thought I could post a blog entry<\/i> and then I've thought Nah, not worth the effort<\/i>.<\/p>\n
(Added later: have also been feeling like the kinds of stuff I wanted to blog about is kind of trivial compared to World Events lately (floods, revolutions, that kind of thing) and other people's personal-scale events (such as a couple of friends losing parents recently).)<\/p>\n
Partly it's continued busyness. Until this past Friday, there was only one day this month that we didn't hit our submission cap at SH<\/cite>. I've been reading about 25-30 stories a week, and have continued to try to improve our story-tracking database in my copious free time.<\/p>\n (Added later: Despite everything, was remarkably productive this weekend: got through nearly 40 items on to-do list. Still dozens of tasks left to do, of course, but still, that's a lot more than I usually manage.)<\/p>\n Speaking of free time, there's been a little socializing, but not much. But I have made a bunch of new acquisitions: an HDTV; an Apple TV box; a PlayStation 3 (which can play Blu-Ray movies); a bunch of movies and TV shows on Blu-Ray and DVD; and some PS3 games.<\/p>\n Haven't tried the games (except the PS3 version of DDR), but have been watching a bunch of TV. Kam and I have continued with Lost<\/cite> (we've seen through episode 20 of season 1), and I've watched all 10 episodes of Huge<\/cite> from the iTunes Store, and I've started watching Wiseguy<\/cite>. I tend to do most of my TV watching while entering submissions into the database, which is a largely mindless task that some day I will automate, or while accepting and rejecting SH<\/cite> forum signups. (I suspect they're 99% spam, but I try to accept any that look even vaguely plausibly like real humans.)<\/p>\n (Side note: Not counting TV shows, I'm now down to fewer than 50 movies on my Netflix list. If I see a movie a week, I'll be all out of movies to watch by the end of the year.)<\/p>\n