Thanx Ev. I think. This doesn’t mean we have to throw more money at you, does it? Cause, all of my funds are tied up in other places right now. But, anyway, thank you. We all appreciate the efforts.
by krisis
Blogger
So, here i am on blogger again, huh? I suppose it bears some explaining… i am still having issues with Blogger and my page, but when it comes to quickly and painlessly setting up a posting service for an updates page like this, Blogger is the way to go. I wanted to keep these updates as well as my entire feature separate from my log because the angst and drama of my life only has as much to do with this as i manifest through the music.
This could all wind up a horrible failure. I might only finish recording 5 songs, or i might be exhausted the day of the event. That’s why you don’t send your checks to MANNA until after this whole ordeal is over. However, i think it’s worth the chance and the effort on my part: i get 25+ songs recorded, you get to hear them, and we both get the satisfaction of knowing it was done for MANNA. (At this point MANNA has no idea of what’s going on… i figure i’ll wait to tell them until i have a respectable amount of songs done as well as a respectable amount of sponsors.)
So, is this going to be a splash, or just a puddle? I hardly even know. Stick around to find out, i suppose.
Okay, so, i’m back, and it bears some explaining.
Firstly, Ev is looking into the archive problem at Blogger, which is all i ever wanted him to do in the first place, and him looking into it is a good enough solution for me, so i’m back. Secondly, i miss you. Thirdly, i really want to be here to promote donations to the 25/24 Project in association with the Blog-A-Thon.
To catch you up quickly, i am recording 25 brand new studio tracks to be released one per hour on July 28th for the entire day, and i’m asking people to pledge money towards MANNA in support of my project. MANNA is a local volunteer organization that makes meals 6 days a week for people living at home with AIDS/HIV, and a donation as small as $5 will actually go towards feeding people! More details can be found here, and i’m offering PBS-style bonuses to people who donate on behalf of 25/24.
So, yeah, back … with a purpose. This rocks.
Dear Blogger,
You win. I quit.
This has all been a very wonderful experience but right now it just makes me miserable to see my posting window because i know i’ve lost all of my past to you and your stupid machines. Yes, i still have it, and i backed it up, but i hate this feeling of impermance. I am frustrated.
This is an inopportune time for me to stop, since i have more people paying attention to me than ever have before, but i refuse to attach misery to writing … it defeats the entire purpose for me. I am a perfectionist. I re-edit posts from December for one-letter spelling errors. Of course, i can’t do that now because i can’t publish to my December archive, or any other one for that matter. But, that is only part of the problem.
Maybe i will come back tomorrow. I hope i will come back tomorrow. In the meantime, have fun with your thousands of new users every month and your totally free blogspot. I suppose i’m just realizing that nothing free is ever worth the price; or maybe it’s worth exactly the price i’m paying. Either way, my offer stands: i’d love to purchase a pro account at any point when you offer one.
I apologize to my readers for all of this drama; sometimes life and the physical act of posting just eclipses what i have to say. I still love writing for you, and i am not quitting that – i just need a new venue. In the meantime, you can find me at Repulsed and CorLog. However, the latter is posted with Blogger, so don’t get too attached :)
all my love,
-peter
(ps: if you want to help in some way, please go here and read.)
Rabi is finally a ‘blog of note’ on the Blogger.com sidebar, and i am happy for her. Two weeks ago i probably would’ve been happy and also a little jealous, but at this point i don’t expect Ev to read and then add my blog to the blogs of note because he still hasn’t read or fixed everyone’s ongoing archive problems. So, while i will not begrudge anyone the time to sit down and enjoy Rabi’s site, i will once again point out that i would write monthly checks directly to Ev to have a competent support staff at blogger to be able to deal with these small and various problems.
Blah. The lack of archives has really eaten the fun all out of this; they won’t even acknowledge that last week ever occurred, when it used to be that the only acknowledged last week. But, on the upside, i don’t need my alarm clock anymore. Really. Matt inexplicably got up and turned it off this morning (because the only thing that can motivate him to get up is an interruption of his sleep, if that makes any sense), but i still awoke at 8am on the dot. Why? Because i couldn’t breathe. We’ve achieved a very delicate balance of temperature here at 3604 Spring Garden, and it involves having the air conditioner on low blast and the windows open in the living room. This creates somewhat of a cross breeze and keeps the place liveable, but it also wakes me up every day unable to breathe or see because allergies are that fun.
And now it is time to be at work. Maybe another reason i haven’t been blogging as much is because work has actually been engaging me lately… forcing me to actually talk to students on a day to day basis and work on things in between. And, i have given myself my own work. I posted multiple times at CorLog yesterday, and i fixed up the AniGuitar archive, jumped into the at length political battle over at Repulsed, and i’m trying to install this whacky imaging software that Benjy uses at Linkstew so that i can start keeping an archive of webcam shots at some point. Last night, if you missed it, i was naked on the cam for almost the whole night. Yes, there will be a members only section of the archive :p
So, anyway, here i am almost late for work and saying nothing. This whole blog is about nothing, though Tom over at Nothing definitely beat me to the punch on that name. I like the internet again, because i have so many different things to do and read. And, i suppose in a way this page has become nothing other than my portal out to all of that, and i’ve been neglecting to reward you with the results of all of my wandering. So… more rewards soon, i suppose. Sorry about all of this…