keeping up to date

Some reasons why I don't keep my journal up to date:

I don't make time for it because, internally, I don't consider it a high priority. Maybe it isn't, and yet I manage to find time to do lots of other things that are probably less fulfilling. (This is true of so much in my life that it's clearly a more fundamental problem.)

I've never been able to get past the narcissistic aspect of it. That probably sounds strange, but I've always assumed that unless proven otherwise, people don't care much about me. Probably a leftover coping mechanism from high school. It actually surprised me when a couple of friends gently prodded me recently about keeping up to date -- in a way it hadn't occurred to me that they'd *want* me to.

Most of the things that happen in my life don't seem interesting enough to journal. That might be, but who am I to judge? :-)

Anyway, I suppose this is my New Year's Resolution, or something like it, to try to keep in better touch with my friends.

you haul sixteen tons, and whaddya get?

So, anyway, I'm ( unemployed again. )

So for the time being, I'm determined to enjoy my liberation to the fullest. I've been working pretty much without a vacation for the last six years, so for now I'm going to by-god take one. My last day at work was a week ago; this week I saw three movies, got in a decent two-hour bike ride and managed to arrange a (most delightful) booty call. If I can do this for another couple of weeks I ought to be pretty well recharged!

Nevertheless, I could really use a steady paycheck. If any of you folks know of an opening for a mid-level software engineer -- preferably Unix although I now officially have Windows coding experience to put on my resume -- please give me a shout. Resume at http://www.unchi.org/~twp/resume.html.