Gnurple dot Net

I haven’t used this space to say anything in a long time. Colour me undisciplined, I guess.

So I’m back here, and I’m going to try again to come up with things to say.

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Lots of things have happened since I last posted here. These are some of those events. No particular order:

(*) Paddington’s sister — Fluffernutter — passed away;

I wrote a tribute type post last year about Paddington’s passing. I feel that simply mentioning Fluffo’s passing … in passing … like this might lessen its significance. It is not to say that Fluffernutter’s passing is any less impacting or sad to me or anything. It’s just that it happened during a time when I wasn’t blogging here.

(*) My daughter was born;

This, the months leading up to it, and the months since have been the greatest and most significant events of my life. You’d think I would have written more about them. Nope. Well, I suppose they may have something to do with me not having the time to write stuff here, so there’s that.

(*) I have more responsibilities at work, and a small raise to go with them.

Is it a promotion if you still do what you’ve always done, but now you do more? I dunno, but I like my extra duties and even the tiniest bit of extra income makes a difference.

(*) I suppose that’s another thing that has maybe changed since I last updated here regularly: my family (hee, just to say that…) is in week-by-week financial mode. I feel like mentioning this maybe breaks some tenet of blogging like “don’t write about non-uplifting things”. What’s the opposite of uplifting? Dejecting?

I mention it because (a) it’s not dejecting, it just IS. We’re all happy, even if we can’t spend money on frivolous things like going to movies, buying DVDs, eating out; (b) it’s one of those life phases that deserves contemplation: maybe it’s the life track that we’re on, but we bought the house we wanted at the top end of what we could afford, we have a newborn, etc. We worry about our inability to handle any significant worsening of the situation, and we look forward to the “things get better from here” side of the equation. Life goes on.

So, now, what to write about? What can you expect to see here in posts to come?

(*) Parenting stuff. I’m going from zero to something in this area. It is a huge part of my life now. I like that it is and I feel I have things to share, even if they’re the opposite of ground-breaking developments.

(*) Photography. Once this was one of my main interests. Lately it has died down, but I still love everything to do with taking and working on pictures. I want to resurrect it.

(*) Bicycling. I commute by bike, I enjoy the hell out of riding, I’m improving at bicycle maintenance and I’m looking forward to more than just telecommuting. I probably have some things that I could say.