You might not know it from this blog, but every now and then I do something that isn’t related to bicycling. On that note, I’ve setup another blog recently. This one is dedicated to the very specific theme of short stories that I’ve read and to nothing else.
It’s nothing special really, just short posts about short stories. They aren’t full reviews, only quick comments and maybe the rare insight, but don’t count on it.
Anyway, if you are interested go to The Storyphile and check things out.
I hope everyone likes the new look. I’ve been meaning to do this for months and months, and somehow kept not being able to decide on a look that I liked and also feeling like I didn’t have the time to mess with it. But here it is and suddenly there was a theme that I felt comfortable with and—boom boom—it’s done.
Let me know if you find any features that aren’t working, or seem skewed for whatever reason. There very well could be something that I missed, but I think this is what the old blog will look like for a while going forward.
Am I lame, or what? I’m just not very prolific, I guess. And I’ve been spending more time playing chess over at Chess.com. That’s been a lot of fun. It’s not that I’ve played all that many games – finished one, and close to finishing another, but when I get home from work in the evening there’s usually at least one of them that has made a move that needs addressing.
The funny thing is noticing how and when my friends are online. These games don’t require both players to be online simultaneously, but there’s a little icon next to each player’s name that indicates when they are on the site. And next to each game board is a little chat window, so some evenings, even though the games may not be progressing that quickly, it has been fun to have a quick chat with someone I see only rarely, or maybe haven’t seen at all in years.
I don’t know why the website has been so slow recently. I’m taking a look to see if maybe one of my plugins is dragging things down, but I don’t think I’ve got so much data that it should take this long. In short, just know that I’m trying to figure it out.
[UPDATE]
I was right. It seems to be the plugin that allows me to display my pownce notes in the sidebar. I suspect it is the fact that basically it has to query an entirely separate webpage—rss feed to pull that information across and then repost it here. I’m just turning that piece off for the time being. There is still a link to my pownce profile page under the “My Networks” portion of the page so anyone interested can go there directly. If you are very interested you can join pownce yourself and be-friend me and you’ll get updates automagically. In short—again—the page should be faster now. It won’t transcend the laws of space and time, but you won’t have to go to the bathroom either while you wait.
I know things haven’t been especially interesting around here recently, and it seems that about all I ever post is the extent and duration of my latest bike ride, and when I’m riding only once a week that isn’t saying very much.
I am going to make a concerted effort to try and get a little creative and fun again. To that effect I have decided to move the ordinary blah blah posts about how much I rode my bike to Pownce. If you monitor the sidebar you will continue to find those entries in brief form, and of course you can also always go to my Pownce profile, or who knows, even join and add me as a friend. If I have anything beyond just a flat entry about the ride then I can always still update the blog with that.
Stay tuned for the random, the unexpected, the bizarre, or just as likely, the inane. There, now I’ve said it, so I have to do it, right?
