Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Introduction
OK, to further overextend myself creatively, it's time to set up an new Blog. Obviously, it's been a while since I updated my Job Hunter's Diary, because I frankly got tired of the daily "looked on the job boards, sent some e-mails, got no response" entries. Plus, I'm sure it was going to cut down on the readership quickly, too. But that's really a story for that blog, not this one.
I decided to get another outlet for my writing (fiction, prose, ramblings, whatever) other than just Word docs on my Mac. Plus, I run across all sorts of weird, random information in my daily activities, some in e-mail, some while surfing the web, and I needed a place to store them all for my future reference or to share with others who may or may not be interested in the unusual or just purely random.
Take, for example, these examples:
That, and I just may post some practice writing exercises. I've got plenty of time on my hands right now, and I've been really wanting to sharpen my writing skills, and, well, it's just not all that exciting to sit down in front of Word to write. Maybe I'm a little ADD (probably more than a little) and perhaps I'm just a bit obsessive compulsive (like my favorite defective detective), but having other gizmos surrounding the screen is more enticing to me than just the Word interface.
In addition, some of my activities around the house have uncovered some interesting tidbits, like my college notebooks from my first two years at UNT, back when it was North Texas State University. I actually started (several times) a journal in one of my notebooks, and I was amazed to see how much of the emotions and memories of those days came back to me by just reading a few handwritten pages. I've done some journaling several times in my life, but never consistently, outside of therapy. So if I make it really easy to journal on a regular basis, maybe I can actually keep up with it.
So, here goes nothing. I'll conclude this first post to the new blog, get it posted and make sure all the techno-wizardry is working correctly. Then I'm off to help my wife bake cookies, get to the bank, and take care of other mundane daily life issues.
Entire contents of this site © 2003-2008 Eriq Oliver Neale/Simultaneous Pancakes Media unless otherwise noted. I hate that I have to point that out...I decided to get another outlet for my writing (fiction, prose, ramblings, whatever) other than just Word docs on my Mac. Plus, I run across all sorts of weird, random information in my daily activities, some in e-mail, some while surfing the web, and I needed a place to store them all for my future reference or to share with others who may or may not be interested in the unusual or just purely random.
Take, for example, these examples:
That, and I just may post some practice writing exercises. I've got plenty of time on my hands right now, and I've been really wanting to sharpen my writing skills, and, well, it's just not all that exciting to sit down in front of Word to write. Maybe I'm a little ADD (probably more than a little) and perhaps I'm just a bit obsessive compulsive (like my favorite defective detective), but having other gizmos surrounding the screen is more enticing to me than just the Word interface.
In addition, some of my activities around the house have uncovered some interesting tidbits, like my college notebooks from my first two years at UNT, back when it was North Texas State University. I actually started (several times) a journal in one of my notebooks, and I was amazed to see how much of the emotions and memories of those days came back to me by just reading a few handwritten pages. I've done some journaling several times in my life, but never consistently, outside of therapy. So if I make it really easy to journal on a regular basis, maybe I can actually keep up with it.
So, here goes nothing. I'll conclude this first post to the new blog, get it posted and make sure all the techno-wizardry is working correctly. Then I'm off to help my wife bake cookies, get to the bank, and take care of other mundane daily life issues.
