psst.. this blog is on hiatus.

I don’t feel like blogging anymore

I hope you figured this out, since I haven’t updated for close to a year, but I thought I’d make it official.

It’s not that anything’s “wrong”–I just don’t feel like I have anything I need to broadcast to the internets.  (Well, except for Twitter, but I’m kinda flaky on that score, too.) I don’t feel like writing rants and I have no desire to share intimate details of my life.  And frankly, in the last year or so, I’ve started to dig this IRL thing more.

That said, I do miss the connections and conversations I used to maintain via blogging.  I’m still online (way too much, of course), and you can easily reach me via email at tom at underscorebleach dot net. Please do drop me a line.

But now… it’s back to the real world for me!

A brief message to the person who jacked up my car at 3 o’clock in the morning, removed the lug nuts from the passenger-side wheel, took the wheel (presumably to replace a damaged wheel on his own Scion TC), and left my 3-wheeled car for me to discover at 8:20 a.m. this morning

Thank you for leaving the lug nuts from the stolen wheel in a neat pile next to the wheel drum.

It was quaint and really quite thoughtful, and I must say that having those lug nuts simplified matters for me today.

no wheel!

Playing the money game

If you’re a regular reader of the jotsheet, perhaps you’ve been wondering, “What’s the deal with this web host stuff? Has Tom Sherman turned into a hack mouthpiece for a pyramid scheme?”
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London and Germany: Europostmortem

If you visit my website regularly, you’ve noticed that the pickings here have been slim lately. I haven’t felt like writing. I haven’t had anything to say. And to tell you the truth, I find this malaise a bit disconcerting.

Less than a week ago, I returned from a two week trip; the first week was spent working in London, the second on holiday in Germany. You’d think I’d have something profound, insightful, or at least interesting to say about my trip. I really don’t. I can’t even summarize it well. What I can tell you is that traveling for two weeks by oneself makes for a lonely time.
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