Dang; I mucked around a lost a couple paragraphs I'd been writing a few minutes ago. That's a hazard of using the browser to write; with a text editor there's a Save command you can easily hit and know stuff's there. Also multiple levels of undo, etc.
Anyway, I was saying that I was glad to see my pal Mike online with Radio (note the blogroll), and that I hope he's able to keep it up. Doing this regularly is a lot of work, and trying to do it regularly gives one a lot of respect for those who do it often and well. I made a run at it last summer with a small database app I wrote myself, and tried to used Jorn Barger's style of just writing one-liners. Not surprisingly, they're oftentimes as hard to write as a couple of sentences or a paragraph.
I've been feeling a little whelmed lately, from a lot going on, and some uncertainty. I have a lot of work to do, what with two consulting clients, and the regular and not so regular pulls of daily life with a couple kids, a mother in law who is seriously ill, taxes, and the like. I'm not totally sanguine (interesting confluence of definitions to that word!) about my future prospects with either of them. I also don't feel that I'm able to put enough time into either, for reasons that are not in my control.
On the other hand, as I usually do, I've been having frustrating fun digging into learning some new technology. I've made progress in fits and starts, but I'm starting to get somewhere wtih XSLT. I've been doing a lot of work lately with Perl, which is fun too, and a little with Radio. I need to do more work with Radio, but I'm afraid that won't be for a while.
Aw, I'm mostly just tired from being up late last night picking Lyal up at the airport and making the trek into San Francisco today. It's a first hack at some writing in a more personal mode. In the meantime, A Death In The Family is on PBS, and a rerun of last night's Six Feet Under is on HBO, and my battery is running down (so is the one on my laptop).
9:50:45 PM 
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