Additionally, motivation can be a factor.  My room in its current state could probably be declared a federal disaster area, which would be really great because I need the money.  However I don’t see that happening, so I’ll have to clean it myself.  I also find it a challenge to actually get rid of things.  I’ve managed that sort of mega-purge a couple of times before.  Most of the crap this time is paperwork that I need to carve through one step at a time… fun fun!

I also had my last business meeting as the head of my local Mensa chapter this week.  I’ve had that gig for two years and I think it’s been largely positive for me — better growth of my social skills and trusting others with accomplishing tasks while still feeding the control freak in me.  But I am glad my time is done in that job… honestly, in some cases term limits can be a blessing. (With a friendly nudge, nudge to Congress) So now it’s time to look forward.  I don’t know what will come next in Mensa for me…  I’ll still be a webmaster for a while.  I’m sure I’ll be active in one of the several L.A. area chapters as well, but I’m also needing to focus on my entertainment career, too.

Thankfully, if I’ve timed everything right, I’ll be able to take a small road trip before landing in L.A.  I haven’t been up to my uncle’s house for a couple of years at least and I could really, really use the downtime away from everything.  I’ll also get to stop in on the way to visit my brother and his family, which has now grown by one with the gold master release of Son V2.0!  I’m excited to see the little critter and all the rest of them, too… it’s been too long.  Almost wish my parents lived within this circuit too, but I’ll have to wait until the bigger holidays to see them, I suppose.

Per my previous post, I’m still working on the video end of things.  I’m working on finding a way to keep the bandwidth costs down for doing this, but I may just end up sticking it on my YouTube channel and linking it here. Stay tuned for that as well as additional updates from me as I keep working on this site!

This is largely an experiment to see if I can build and maintain a website on my own over an extended period of time.  As I move forward with my life, I pledge the following:

• To post a written blog entry no less than twice a week to start.  Hopefully I’ll be able to build up to more than that as time goes on.
• To post a video blog entry at least once a week.  That’ll stay pretty static for the time being… still need to figure out how to post video here first.

I also post on Twitter often enough (for me). I’m not on there obsessively posting every little thing I do, but I’ll have notices of site updates for this blog and my new review site, Random Reviews (check it out!) as well as pithy responses to my fellow Tweeters as I can.

So I’ll wrap this post up for now. Stay tuned for news from me in the coming months.