{"id":8253,"date":"2011-08-06T08:27:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T12:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2011-08-06T08:27:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T12:27:39","slug":"emerging-blinking-into-the-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/emerging-blinking-into-the-sunlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging, Blinking, into the Sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve been visiting RAMH<\/em>\u00a0for more than a few months, you probably know I’ve been a bit… distracted<\/em>\u00a0recently. And it’s probably going to happen again in a few weeks, when I again take up my rock hammer, rope, and lanterned helmet, wandering back into Seems to Fit<\/a><\/em>\u00a0for the N<\/em>th and final time.*<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’ve got some sprucing up to do — in the real world, for sure:<\/p>\n

Heaps of printouts, notes (sticky and otherwise), fruit-and-grain-breakfast-bar wrappers, reference books, recorded but unlabeled CD-ROMs — all of that will vanish from within a dozen feet of my elbows. [Hmm. “Feet of my elbows” — now there’s a phrase I don’t think I’ve even <\/em>seen before. And probably with good reason.]<\/em><\/span>\u00a0I’ll add things back into the daily home routine that I’d put aside; maybe I can again watch an occasional movie on a weeknight, and sleep in a little in the morning before getting ready for work. Maybe The Missus and I can play some cards. And maybe I can once again read for more than five minutes before dropping off to sleep.<\/p>\n

I’ve also got some dusting and renewal to take care of around Running After My Hat<\/em>. This won’t necessarily involve changing the look itself — replacing the “theme” — but I’ve been thinking about it. I’ve got a bunch of draft posts in the hopper on favorite but time-sucking topics, posts in the What’s in a Song<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and Perfect Moments<\/a><\/em>\u00a0categories especially.<\/p>\n

(My erstwhile but long absent co-blogger<\/a> has even knocked plaintively on my window a couple of times, signing to me through the glass, waggling granite fingers as though manipulating an invisible keyboard. He seems to long for personal expression.)<\/p>\n

And finally, I’ll be trying to spend more time and care in visiting other people online. Yes, I know why<\/em> I’ve been too preoccupied to do more than look through so many windows in passing. It couldn’t have been otherwise, and I won’t say I regret it, exactly. But I’ve missed the back-and-forth at some favorite blogs. It’s past time to go rapping on their<\/em> windows, too.<\/p>\n

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* Er, well, the\u00a0N<\/em>th and final time of my own choosing. After which, others will start to chime in. They may have no suggestions at all, but I don’t count on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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