AFK

AFK. Away from keyboard. It's one of those stupid internet short-hands. Since I'm not an on-line gamer nor a chat room visitor, I learned what AFK meant from a recent episode of The Big Bang Therory.

I thought it was an appopriate posting title to explain that I had fallen off the face of the earth. I've been prone to doing that over the past several years of running my little vanity sites.

And let's be honest, that's what these sites are. They are there to stroke our own egos a bit. I've got a few little sites to showcase my arcade experience, my appreciation of an NFL assisted reading program from my childhood and my writings (as little as they may be).

I want these sites to be somewhat interesting in their own way, but the real reason behind them is so people learn more about me. We're all that way, whether you chose to admit or not. For those of you who have taken the time to create a site, I applaud your efforts. It's not that easy (but easier than some think), but it takes time and dedication to get the site up and keep it stoked with new content. But you are just like me. You want people to see you. You want them to know the side of you that you may not share at work or at home.

Well, I found myself doing other things over the past year that took me away from the keyboard. As a result the website maintenance, blog entries and story creation that I used to enjoy, fell by the wayside. I'm struggling now to get back into the flow of things and relearn certain skills. It took me almost a week to fix a corrupted file on The Way of the Con site that was blocking me from publishing (thanks to the iPower guys for their help!).

Relearning the skill of putting words on to paper (or text into blogs) is a slow process. I've written over the past year, but it has been sporadic at best with only one really nice piece to show for it.

But I'm hopeful that things will get better and my ideas will get sharper and stories will form in my head. That way you can see the real me again.