I Almost Tweeted This

It's been so long since I've written in either of my blogs that I was afraid to even open them for fear they'd been hacked by spammers and were crawling with malware. Tonight I finally got the nerve to take a peek, and found no such thing. Instead, I got caught up in reading old hockey blog posts for a good 30 minutes before coming over here to see what was up.

It's probably terribly self-aggrandizing to say so, but I rather enjoyed reading my own writing. I'm not always interesting or profound or even particularly articulate, but for the most part I think I write clearly and capture moments—an event, a game, a practice, a trip—well.

I tell myself that I'm not writing here anymore because [a] I have Twitter for spewing random thoughts (I'm reminded of one of my old blogs that I can't even remember if I rebuilt or mothballed when I moved to a new ISP years ago, called 255 Characters or Less, where the goal was to capture thoughts brief enough to fit in a pager message); [b] I don't have time to write anything much longer than a Twitter message anyway; and [c] if I were going to write something longer, I'd write about work/Scrum/software development process, and nobody who's ever read this blog before would want to read about that.

The Beaner, being silly There are all kinds of kid milestones and moments I could be writing about, but for some reason I haven't wanted to—maybe for the same reason I spent so much less time on photography this year. No, that last is probably related to the work/scrum/software process obsession.

Speaking of kid milestones, it's sort of ironic that the last post I wrote here was about the Beaner entering Kindergarten, since he "graduated" from it last month. There's lots of school drama now (which, if you live in Philadelphia, you may have read about), what with the school that we specifically moved for last summer saying that they're full for grades K-4 and have no intention of expanding, and a school district report that mentions redrawing the boundaries of the catchment area being leaked. We have a backup plan (a very nice one), but as of right now we still don't know for sure where the Beaner will be going to first grade—and we won't known until mid-August at the earliest. School starts on September 8.

Having said that, and even if we don't get into the neighborhood school, I can't regret moving out here. I LOVE this neighborhood, my commute (at least inbound; sometimes it can be a scramble to get home in the evenings), our neighbors, and especially our house (still!). We have sort of adopted a neighborhood stray cat (or s/he adopted us) who comes as often for the lovin' as for the food. As I'm allergic to cats, a cat that comes to visit and keeps me company while I garden but doesn't want to come inside is exactly what I want in a pet. Her love was hard-won, too, which for some reason is a bonus for me. :-)

OK, it's late. I won't bother making any promises about writing again soon or blogging about hockey; instead, I'll just end abruptly and go to bed. 'Night.

Posted by Lori in me, me, me at 12:47 AM on July 8, 2011

Comments (4)

jess:

hey now, I'd be interested in work/scrum/software process, plus hockey! ;) I actually came back and read your early posts not that long ago, when I was gearing up to start playing again (you know, the games I've been playing and not blogging either).

on Beaner+schools -- when I was in elementary school we moved into a new house in suburban DC (montgomery county MD) and they kept re-drawing the boundaries every year. Despite not moving, I went to three different elementary schools in three years. I actually wrote letters to the school board about it (not that it made a difference). It was fine, of course, just sort of inconvenient, especially when I was going to an elementary school further away from the house!

Hope Beaner gets into the neighborhood school. :)

Good night, and thanks for posting!

With the other channels available, personal blogs are a bit of an anachronism.

But some of us old fogies still enjoy them.

girlfiend:

What's the backup plan for school? After a total panic attack earlier in the year we are still slated for our local school for the fall. F was in the public pre-k at a different school in the neighborhood this past year, which was good, but unfortunately they closed down all of the centers in our neighborhood so my other kids won't get the opportunity.

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hey now, I'd be interested in work/scrum/software process, plus hockey! ;) I actually came back and read your early posts not that long ago, when I was gearing up to start playing again (you know, the games I've been playing and not blogging either).

on Beaner+schools -- when I was in elementary school we moved into a new house in suburban DC (montgomery county MD) and they kept re-drawing the boundaries every year. Despite not moving, I went to three different elementary schools in three years. I actually wrote letters to the school board about it (not that it made a difference). It was fine, of course, just sort of inconvenient, especially when I was going to an elementary school further away from the house!

Hope Beaner gets into the neighborhood school. :)

Posted by: jess at July 8, 2011 8:18 PM

Hello!

Posted by: schmutzie at July 9, 2011 12:48 PM

Good night, and thanks for posting!

With the other channels available, personal blogs are a bit of an anachronism.

But some of us old fogies still enjoy them.

Posted by: Joe Crawford at July 11, 2011 6:36 PM

What's the backup plan for school? After a total panic attack earlier in the year we are still slated for our local school for the fall. F was in the public pre-k at a different school in the neighborhood this past year, which was good, but unfortunately they closed down all of the centers in our neighborhood so my other kids won't get the opportunity.

Posted by: girlfiend at July 13, 2011 10:07 AM

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