OK, so I haven’t exactly lived up to my promise to keep blogging on a regular basis despite my personal issues. Sorry. I’ve been wasting a lot of time lately, just moping around the house. It’s funny, when you’re depressed, you have all this time on your hands, all this nervous energy, and yet, you don’t get anything done. I haven’t even changed light bulbs. I just sat there in the dark, and watched a lot of tv. I’ve also been reconnecting with friends on Facebook; even though I had previously canceled my account, I realized that I had recently been in touch with a lot of friends, and they’re a support system.
Today, I realized that I was sitting in a dark house, and I had a ladder and a light bulb. I decided that I was going to do something productive today, and I changed the damn light bulb. I also realized that I could write a blog post, and that I needed to commit to doing something productive every day, or I was going to slide slowly into the abyss.
So, here we are, you and me, and this blog post that isn’t going anywhere. Think of it as a public commitment; I vow to blog at least once every week. I need to reconnect with people, and this blog had been a great vehicle for that in the past, and it will be one for me again. So, if you’ve hung around waiting on something to happen… it’s happening.
Hey, so does that mean that you’re joining the project??
http://sqlvariant.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/01/project-52/
You know, I haven’t read about it, but that sounds like a great commitment to make.
Stuart,
In my comment to your late November post, I said, “there is light and life on the other side” I didn’t realize you would take me literally!
Seriously, glad you got the light bulb changed, glad you got your blog on again. Keep up the momentum!
May I suggest in addition to lightbulb maintenance you try sunshine at every opportunity? Get out of the house, even if it is just to buy some gum.
🙂
I’ve got sunshine…. on my shoulders…. It makes me happy 🙂
When you write your bestselling memoir about being a world-famous database blogger, just promise me this: You have to start the book with, “It was a dark and stormy night. So I changed the lightbulb.”
Glad to hear you’re rockin’ again!