{"id":87614492,"date":"2009-04-16T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614492"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T23:05:05","slug":"no-really-im-still-here-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614492","title":{"rendered":"No, really, I’m still here. Honest."},"content":{"rendered":"

Started a new job (2mo contract) last week, and so I’m just trying to figure out where I’m going to fit into the mayhem I see in front of me.\u00a0 Nice people that I’ve met so far (all five of them or so), and the new location looks like it’ll be a good environment.<\/p>\n

There’s work to do, I can see it happening all over the place, but don’t quite see yet how *I* can help get very much of it done yet. It’s like standing outside a diamond mine, with backpack full of tools and explosives, and I can’t figure out where the entry is.\u00a0 My “intruder complex” is kicking in, so I have to battle that old demon.\u00a0 Been a long time.<\/p>\n

It should get better after the location change is done for these folks, and I’m trying to help with that as much as possible, but again… diamond mine.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, or rather, the other OTHER thing I’m not doing any of is writing, even though I don’t normally write anything anyway (Arwen’s the writer in the house). She recently mentioned a call for submissions online for a particular topic that involved interaction between a god and a mortal, and all I can think of is that sketch comedy by Radio Free Vestibule in which God gives the message to Kevin that people of Earth need to “change thy ways or perish.”<\/p>\n

“…or perish. Got it.”<\/p>\n

“You Should Probably Write That Down.”<\/p>\n

“Do you have a pen?”<\/p>\n

“No… Well… Yes, But It’s Really Big.”<\/p>\n

And I simply can’t write anything about the topic at hand, because my brains keep trying to end conversations or paragraphs with “Yes, but it’s really big.”<\/p>\n

Funny, but no.<\/p>\n

And then there’s this, which made me giggle in the same way most of the XKCD.com<\/a> stuff does.<\/p>\n

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