A long pause indeed

It has been a long silence since I posted last to this blog. How hypocritical would it be if I said that blogging was my passion, but then the sole source of insight into my being just disappears. Hypocritical offense it is! It would be as if I died inside and you're waiting for the 10'o'clock news coverage of it. I can't let that be the end of it. I must tell you what devious plot I've been hatching.. in this mini sabbatical.

Ok-- In 1990, if some white, shy, nerd with glasses and a high pitched voice walked up to you and said “Yahoo! is the future” you either A.) say “Yahoo!? you mean booze and rodeos are going to get cheaper in the future?” or B.) you'd say, “you've gone crazy dude.. a word cannot dictate my future!” However, where are we now ladies and gentlemen? Yahoo! is a global enterprise that doesn't even need to create it's own services, it just pays companies to develop software for them. People, I'm telling you “Rangernet” is the future.

Like the nerd who foretold the future vis-a-vis a Texas cowboy ideom. I tell you now, rangernet could be it, with no knowledge of its potential. For now its a fantastic forum or group of people who are committed to the teachings of God, but are also committed to being real role models for young men with no direction in their lives. I encourage my readers to at least visit the modest forum we've created at http://www.rangernet.org.

So what of me? What has become of my politics these days? My goals are simplistic, but their execution is far too complex for me to figure out just how and when I'm going to complete them all. You could say that in the beginning of September, I walked into a cheap buffet (of projects) and loaded three plates full of things I have to complete.

I have a whole plate of immediate things that need doing,

a plate of things to be completed by the end of next month,

and a plate of things I need to plan, research, or execute in “the long term.”

Pretty intense 'eh?

So what is Josh's tally so far on his endeavors? What has the r3dragon done thus far?

I've made rangernet.org happen,

I've started on my thesis and selected a topic,

I'm working 40 hours a week in what many call “a dream job for colleged age people,”

I still have a person who loves me and cares for me,

I've bought a new harddrive and memory for my old laptop making it useful again!

I've installed linux on that laptop to wean myself off of microsoft like we all should do with oil,

I'm alive,

I have multiple hobbies,

I've temporarily stopped playing video games,

I bought an Giorgio Armani Suit Jacket,

and maybe something else that I haven't remembered.

I'm busy and I suppose that confirms that I'm alive and have a purpose.

As these things slowly get completed, I know I'll have lots more time to keep you informed on what crazy madness runs through the mind of the r3dragon.

thanks all~

~R3d

ps. I love you tink