Now, to make the long story longer, but still not TOO long: I was attempting to make a "present" for all of you by introducing an audio blog, so you could hear my wonderful voice. It's not really wonderful, but it's one of my better qualities, so I'll show it off if given a chance. I also thought it would give me a starting-off point for a top-secret project I'm not going to mention officially until I'm certain I can devote the time and energy necessary to accomplish it. But, really, I just thought a few audio entries would amuse you fair readers that have been kind enough to me in my hard times, and how can that be so bad?
Unfortunately, it's much more complicated than expected.
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE to learn how to do new things. I just have no concept of how long it might take me to do it, and when I get it in my head to do something new that's pretty much ALL I do. I just want to learn and understand and accomplish NOW. When I don't IMMEDIATELY succeed, I get frustrated.
I'm learning, and I'm pretty sure I have the basics down, but it'll still be an indefinite time before I definitely have it up and running.
In the meantime, here are some thoughts that I've been too distracted to have until right now:
The woman who contacted me through the dating site (there's a previous entry somewhere that mentions her) chatted with me for several days, then essentially dropped from the face of the earth. I didn't think she was my One True Love, but I had distinctly said I only wanted a friend, anyway. Apparently, she wanted a different friend. C'est la vie!
I get to talk to my First True Love tomorrow! Since she's about the bestest friend I could ever want, and we live thousands of miles from each other and have very different schedules and therefore rarely have a chance to talk, this is exciting. She just moved to another state, and just moved in with her long-time boyfriend, and just started graduate school, I'm sure she has plenty of stress and stories to share with me. Also, she's been reading up on stuff I don't know much about, and she loves teaching to me (it helps her remember and understand material) as much as I love learning, so that'll be another exciting night!
I really need to go out and take pictures. I always enjoyed photography, yet my digital camera has been sitting idle pretty much since I bought it four months ago. For some reason, I'm embarrassed to go around taking pictures of a city I live in.
On the same note: I need to learn how to embed photos onto this site. I can host them elsewhere (I'm pretty sure my ISP provides me with some server space), but I've never learned HTML in the slightest. I'm full of interesting facts and quite a bit of fun math and science, but I haven't learned a programming language since using Basic to program my Apple IIC (anyone else out there ancient enough to remember those?). That, however, will have to wait, as I have other mind-expanding projects to do first.
My favorite reading time is on the bus to and from work. My favorite time to listen to interesting podcasts is on the bus to and from work. I can't do both at the same time, so I'm not reading as much as I would like to, nor am I hearing as many interesting podcasts as I would like. Can someone, please, convince me that sleep is not necessary, or else add about eight hours to every day? Just, you know, make them thirty-two hours long?
Well, that's enough random thoughts for the night. I know many of you will not read this at night, but sleep well! I know I'm trying to . . .
Peace.