Friend Barb and I bumped into each other at Peet’s coffee (the ‘old’ downtown Menlo store) this morning as the Menlo Connoisseur Marketplace was building steam around us. Barb mentioned I hadn’t been updating my blog much, lately.
Ouch. Nailed. So true – there are a lot of gray no-blog dates on the calendar adjacent to this post. How, you wonder (as do I), can a guy bereft of a 9-to-5 job, not find time to blog? Surely some of the previously occupied time could be applied to blogging, and thoughtful, well-written, correctly spelled, syntactically perfect blogging at that.
In the past, when I started slipping and missing posts, I decided it must be a schedule issue, so I’d review my calendar. True, we spend several hours a day in physical rehab of one sort or another, including transport to and fro (most days). True we spend some hours doing the shopping and chores and we do most of the cooking around here, making most dishes from scratch.
Also true that lately, we’ve spent much time on the once-stealth InMenlo project, both gathering and preparing content, and learning CSS and XHTML well enough to realize my partners’ vision for the site.
Friday I made lunch for my wife and a couple of her former colleagues, followed by dinner for our fiends Ann and Stuart. Saturday friend and former colleague Shafath came over for a little photo Q&A session and I baked the altar bread for this Sunday’s service (first time I baked bread – came out OK, I think).
Today I went to church, the farmer’s market, Connoisseur’s Marketplace, shot photos and wrote a post for inMenlo, inflated a newly-purchase wading pool for granddaughter Grace prior to her much-anticipated arrival with parents John and Julie, and made an early dinner for the 5 of us – grilled chicken, salmon, fresh market corn-on-the-cob and a seasonal salad with white cucumber, radishes and baby plum tomatoes. Busy day, big weekend, especially considering I’m coping with a down period in my cancer recovery cycle. And, yet, here I am blogging… so, it’s not a schedule issue. It’s a passion thing, I’ve decided. More tomorrow, if I get around to it…
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Sounds to me like you’re both very busy. I can understand about no free time after being retired. I find I don’t have time for anything but gardening, eating, sleeping, working on the odd bagpipe piece and photography. It’s a great life.
Your down period in your cancer recovery will end soon and you’ll be back on the road again, I’m sure.
inmenlo.com has replaced most of gulker.com. Maybe it’s time to just move everything to inmenlo.com.
InMenlo is about Menlo; Gulker.com is about Gulker.
. . . missing those essays about current events and politics, though there are glimmers occasionally coming through blogs.
Chris, your life is a blessing to all – I have faith in that. Please keep it up.