Quillstress

Well, today I woke up to a brand new day..having completed Tech Matters and having promised myself I will clean up my act!  lol    My digital footprints are all over the place and as at least five different “people”.  This identity and organizational crisis is not new to me…poor Troy has been hearing about my quagmire for two years and smiling and nodding knowingly.  If there’s anyone who knows how quickly usernames and passwords mulitply, it must be the guru of techidom.  Thing is…you have to fix it yourself.   So, when first light started burning the foggy tendrils off the lake this morning and woke me from my dreams of cyber clean slates…an entire internet that knew nothing of “me”…I muttered the immortal battle cry of my hero, Spongebob, “I’m Ready!”.

Yes, well, I was.  One breathing treatment and a hot wake up call later I was seated with my laptop and cutting and pasting some few things I wanted to save from the three blogs I have at Blogger..when Skype popped open and started relaying messages from the incomparable Dexter Morph/Moore/Ihnen of Australia.  (Okay, I do have two friends at least who have as much of an identity crisis as me, and Dex is one of them.) lol

For any who don’t know my fixation on the music of this EXTREMELY talented singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/ AND acoustic guitar magician…where HAVE you been?    Let’s just get this out of the way right now…

Follow all the links and you will not go unrewarded.

Enlightenment of the masses over…, so Skype pops and Dex says Hi and asks how I’ve been and wants to know what I feel/think about some things related to his concerts/career in SecondLife where he’s been performing for almost 18 months I think…..and we have a lovely chat.  It’s 10pm for him..and since the last three nights he’s been up until 3am talking  (He was the one skyping me at the conference at lunch and after) I tell him goodnight and he logs out.

I get back to deconstructing blogs..have three down and one to go when Skype rings.  Someone whose login I don’t recognize wants to voice/video chat with me.  Okay, fine..so I pop it open and it’s my friend JPW’s wife from Holland on her new skype account.  (He was the one who vid called me during the last day of the conference to show off his new webcam.)   She’s managed to get the old camera away from him and put it on her laptop..so she’s testing it by letting me watch JPW go off to work through the garden hedge.  LOL  She is multitasking by cleaning her windows, doing a camera download, and setting up her webcam in turns so I basically get to follow her for a bit and then she goes off to do something on another floor of their home and logs off.

Four defunct blogs are gone and I’m no longer author on two more that never even got off the ground..and then I realize..YIKES, my aunt and uncle are coming from Colorado on Sunday…and the granite counter installer is between his fifth and sixth attempt on the kitchen…and the place is a mess!   So, I shovel some files around…start my virus scan I haven’t had time to run in four days…and go to get some RL work done.  (That’s “real life” for those that don’t have more than one.)

I get a good chunk of clean up and reorganizing done  (Why does this guys keep having to take everything out of my cupboards to glue granite down?) and return to my “I’m Ready” tasks.  I sit…I look at the screen…I open my bookmarks in a hazy sort of way…and let out a big sigh.  What next?  Hmm, yeah, what do I get rid of next.  My bookmarks are really no help as I start listing off to myself everywhere that I have a username and password.  E-anthology? Nanowrimo?  Do I want to keep these?   That MNWP anthology, the four fantasy writing forums I’ve been on with students to critique their work…the four social bookmarking sites I’ve bounced around between trying to find one I liked?  What about all those WoW and SWG and Rappelz forums and private servers I’m on because my bro in law asked me to play with my nephews in the “kiddie pool” servers?  Oh, heavens..and my bloglines needed cleaning out two months after I started it and that was two years ago!  Suddenly, I’m not feeling so “Ready” anymore.

*Sigh*  I tell myself it’s just time for a break, that’s all…but then..I haven’t gotten anything DONE yet.  Something in my German/Gospel background doesn’t allow for that.  lol lol  I wonder if there’s a support group out there for people with this problem.  Of course, I’m sure if there is they have a username and password.  LOL 

The funniest part..what do I do?   I open up the one blog I am keeping as my personal space for my teaching/personal self…Quillstress, Miss Achterberg space, so to speak…and rant at myself for your entertainment.  ; )   Yep.    But, at least it “looks” like a decision.  That’s a step, right?  I’ve decided to keep this one, heaven knows why.  LOL