A bunch of blather
Ok, I’m finally crawling out of the fairly predictable week long mental/emotional slump and it’s while it seems to have corresponded loosely with the weather change, I assure you it was orthogonal, falling instead squarely into the realm of The Topic That Shall Not Be Blogged.
A funny thing happens to me in the fall as the temperatures drop. I start sleeping like the dead. When THAT happens I start having/remembering dreams again. But that takes a couple weeks to get used to so instead of waking up refreshed and invigorated, I wake up exhausted. It’ll normalize in a week or two, but it’s pretty wonky to my state of mind.
So yeah, this weekend’s been pretty bizarre with dreams of being a PoW in China singing Allentown with my squad as we were working fields while the Chinese soldiers were raping and killing the land owners.
Also, this weekend was my niece Emily’s first birthday party, which was a blast.
If I could figure out WTF the problem was with getting pictures posted in to WordPress I’d show you some, but it seems to thwart me at every turn.
Let’s see what else.
OH! Facebook!
I’ve been scoffing at these social networking sites since friendster. Sure, I always join them. But I sign up for everything (That’s why I have the “madwilliamflint” email account, so I can fill it up with crap to ignore :p)
What usually happens with these things (in my circles at least) is that they’re just a bit too flash in the pan. I’ve been on Friendster, Orkut, Linked-In, MySpace, SixDegrees, Ryze, FaceBook and a couple others that I get “we miss you” automated emails from every six months or so.
About a month ago I was pinged on FaceBook by my friend Jenn, whom I haven’t seen in FAR too long and is one of those people that I’m a better person for knowing.
So I went in and filled in a couple more details and I realized that my sisters were on as well… and a fairly creepy number of extended family members (a topic for another time.) There were a couple one-off connections (friends of my sisters) I reconnected with.
Then last week I heard from a buddy of mine from high school. For those of you who are counting, that was 22 years ago. We caught up a bit then I saw a bunch more of ‘us’ and started drawing lines back there.
It really cracked open the vault of that decade in my head. I went back and forth a couple rounds with my Junior year roommate as well. It’s funny how the memory of people seems to demand that they be frozen in time. I suppose it’s not so abnormal. Apparently “everybody is married with children” which also is to be expected. It does seem a bit alarming though and it’s tough not to contrast myself against that, with fairly predictable results.
I’m not sure I’ve got much else at the moment. I’m really just trying to keep my fingers warm as my land lady hasn’t turned on the heat yet *twitch*.