A post mostly about YOU!

Checking the Friend-O-Meter, I find it's taken a significant jump. As such, I'd like to take a few moments to impose a greeting upon you all.

Hello, new readers, or old readers who are merely bored enough to be reading this greeting to new readers! I welcome you quite gleefully, because I have this tendency to babble endlessly at anyone who'll listen, and having more people read...

...well, now, I was about to say it influences me to write more. However,I'm not sure that's a provable position to take. As I proved for nearly a year and a half on the old journal site, I'll ramble without a visible audience too. I'm not sure what it takes to get me to shut up. Possibly a tranquilizer gun.

In any event, welcome and salutations, and please do not be alarmed. I am only moderately insane.

Okay, on to more consequential things.

Speaking of that old journal site, I've been not-updating it to see if anyone notices or mentions such. No one has, so I'm pondering the idea of moving all the entries over to HERE instead. I'm aware of the backdate feature, but I'm wondering if that will still make anyone trying to read my journal on their friends page explode from sheer post-flooding.

So, what I'm asking of you folks who've used backdate is, does it show up on the friends page? Is there any way to stop it? And so on, you get the idea. I'm not proud enough of said year and a half of writing to want it splattered EVERYwhere, after all.

Speaking of writing, I am again.

Sort of. With a general plan for where I want to go storywise, I'm starting to go back and look at what I wrote during National Thingie Writing Month. Mostly I'm thinking this is functional but underdescribed. First step will be fleshing out what I have, adding some personality into it. After that, new stuff. Eventually, five tons of flax.

I have no intention of actually trying to get this published. At this point, I mostly want to write something that'll stand up next to one of, for example, Twoflower's stories. It seems odd that this is who I've picked as a paragon of writerly goodness, but that's how I feel. Sailor Nothing, Unreal Estate... heck, even back to Future We'd Like To See, I consider him one of the better 'net-based writers I've seen.

Since Livejournal accounts no longer depend on the code system, I may start an account just to post novel entries. Watch this space. (Watch it! FOREVER! NEVER BLINK AGAIN! Ahem. Sorry.)

To answer some common questions...

I haven't gotten any reply back from WorthPlaying, yet. I'm going to give it another week and then either write again or give up, I haven't decided yet. It's possible it never got there, given I have a yahoo mail address.

My back is feeling far better. Asprin/Naproxin Sodium and plenty of sleep and fluids helped greatly.

Sqrl Radio will be reappearing. I may work out a regular schedule or something. (Nightly starting at 8 EST and lasting 'til 10?) The problem is, I can't figure out why people would care enough about my MP3 collection to listen to it nightly.


I have now made a post mostly talking about other people, or what they've asked me about. I feel... oddly fulfilled. It's a nice change from talking about myself.

Next entry's all about me though. Sorry.