Episode #91: Are We Are What We Are?

Sometimes the simplest things that we want to do or accomplish are often the toughest things to complete.

For me, it's doing something simple like finishing a short story rewrite. I only have something like one very long dialogue paragraph that needs to be done in order to move on to other things. But, just can't seem to get motivated to finish and start on my next project.

Or job hunt. I want to find a part time job to supplement my pension just enough to keep my monthly income close to what it was prior to retiring, but I can't enter the job market until my appeal for my pension is heard next month {t.l.; d.r. denied disability but asking for a revisit}.

Or a few other projects that I want to do but can't find the proper motivation to get them done (note: my organizational skills have briefly kicked the bucket).

Which brings us to the current dilemma of choice: blogging.

While I've always loved blogging, as of late, it hasn't loved me. While blogging has always loved me, as of late, the feeling hasn't been mutual. Case in point is this post coming out again on a Monday for the second straight week. I just can't seem to find the motivation to spew out a few hundred words (give or take) on a consistent basis anymore. I used to go into the weekend thinking, "hey, I have to get something written for blog this coming Sunday." Now it's more like, "man, I gotta write something for the blog this coming Sunday".

But because I still like to blog, I'm going to see if cutting down to every other week will get the mojo working again. As the old saying goes, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I have way too many years invested in blogging to simply walk away.

As a old boss of mine was found of saying, "It's never simple!" 

I'm just hoping that it does get that simple sometime soon in the near future.

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Episode #90: Finding Valid Old Stuff To Use Is Complicated

So...the picture kind of goes with the theme of today's post, which is trying to find something old to use that isn't broken. Which in this particular case, is trying to find an old blog post from my vast archives of verbiage that doesn't contain broken links. Like links to YouTube videos that were valid 11 years ago, but now gone due to copyright issues and the like. 

This picture is an example of something that is now invalid. The bear is so long gone that the location can be safely identified as Connecticut. The whale was long ago removed from the building lobby of where I used to be employed at again, it's somewhere in the the state of Connecticut.

Anyways, I eventually found a post in my first blog, Cedar's Mountain, that was usable, as it contained no broken links as well as the remnants of a deep dive into the recesses of that blogger's brain. To be perfectly honest, I can't even tell you, mostly because I don't remember, where I pulled all of the diverse elements that are contained within the post from. I did give proper credit to the blog that had served as inspiration for the title, but other than that, well......actually, now that I've re-read the post a few times, there are footnotes at the bottom, so there was some lucidity associated with the post.

In any event, hold on to your safety belts, because this post, entitled Brain Rot, from the May 14, 2010 edition of Cedar's Mountain, is ready for your perusal, if you're willing to take that challenge.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

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