So I'm back

...though I would say I never really left. I have a paper journal full of entries from the past 5 months, so there. So why did I leave and why am once again posting here? I'll answer the latter later. That just rolls of the tongue: latter later.

Honesty is the best policy (though Woody Allen once pointed out that implies dishonesty is the second best policy) so I'll be straight: I'm publicly journaling again because I have to. Under Master Brinker, myself and several other black belts are student members in something called the Ultimate Black Belt Test, which is going to last until February 2010. Looking at the end date, I just realized how far in the future that is. 2010! If there hasn't been a robot uprising by then I'll be sorely disappointed.

I had a point, at one point. It was that as part of the UBBT I have to publicly journal once a week, most likely Sundays. I missed last week--here I am making it up. Now, just because my hand is being forced doesn't mean this won't be a positive thing. In fact, I'm pretty happy I got this kick in the pants to blog again.

I stopped blogging because my re-reading my posts annoyed me. As many of you know, I have a lot to say...er, write. Whatever. But this little slice of tube was a soapbox a mile high. I got sick of ranting instead of saying something. That's not a failing of the medium, it's of me. After all, it's easy to write an essay on how important DIY ethics are. They're everywhere here. What's hard is to convince people why they should care. I'm not even going to do that, though. I'm coming at you all sideways by doing something I hate: talking about my life, referencing all this boring social/philosophical stuff in how it relates to day to day stuff. It'll probably just little bits, but who knows, I may confess to some horrible crime on here--wouldn't you hate to miss that?

So stay tuned: bat channel, bat time and so forth.