... but I am gonna be taking a break from blogging for a bit.
Considering how infrequent my posts are these days, I probably could've not said anything, and very few would've noticed my, what will most likely be a multiple-month absence, but with so many bloggers dropping off, without saying anything, this year, I thought I'd extend the courtesy of letting anyone who might care know what's what.
There's multiple reasons for this break, some of which include:
- My vertigo problem, that I've already talked about way too much.
- This is always the worst time of year for my headaches/migraines, and this year has been no exception. It seems like with each passing year, these take more and more out of me, and there are some of these migraine days where I feel like I've got a foot and a half in the grave by midday (or earlier).
- Both of the above issues are causing other issues that I've not discussed publically, but those things aren't doing me any favors either.
- I'm very tired, almost all of the time (I suspect that the touch of anemia I had a number of years ago has returned).
- My computer time is down to about 45 minutes a morning, that is if none of the things above are affecting me on that particular morning. And trying to squeeze multiple hobby related pursuits, genealogical research, blog post research, blog post writing, blog reading/commenting, listing unwanted stuff on eBay (so that I can afford to buy "new" wanted stuff) and a whole host of other things, just isn't working right now.
- I've been sorting and reorganizing my card collection for the last couple of months, and am at the point where I can start entering into the TCDB. I started to do this a few years ago, but never got very far. Since I've been thinning out my collection as I've been reorganizing it, I figured it would be best just to start over with the cataloguing, as I'm assuming that a number of the cards that were previously entered are no longer amongst my keepers. I know that you can delete your whole collection on there, but I'm just going sport by sport as I get to them; starting with basketball. This has been going awfully slow, especially with the limited time I have to work on it each day. And semi-related, I think I'd like to try trading on there again; which I know from past experience, can also take up a bit of time.
And just so this post doesn't end up being completely negative...
In a follow-up to may last post, I was able to get a new laptop. Not being a computer-minded person, I expect that this new machine is gonna take me a while to get used to. Hopefully I'll be able to get a good feel for it during my break. Not only will it be nice to have something that works when I want it to, but according to David, I should now be able to make use of the talk-to-text feature that's available on newer computers, which, if I can learn how to use it, could potentially be a game-changer for me as far as blogging in the future goes. Also, I just wanted to publically say that it means a lot to me that someone (David) that I've not had a lot of interactions with away from the blogs, would think enough of my well-being to mention this program(?) to me via a blog comment, and then go even more out of their way to elaborate on it in an email. So, thanks again, David!
Another recent positive thing is that I've been very engaged with the collecting of cards in recent months, probably more so than I've been in a few years. I have no doubt that this is because of all of the organizing that I've been doing, and switching up how I store some of my cards as well. My collection is becoming much more hands-on than it had previously been. And I'm sure that the cataloguing is playing a part in this too, as it's certainly quicker to find what you do and don't have when everything sorted and inventoried.
I hope everyone had a nice Christmas. No complaints about mine. I didn't get any cards this year, but with Chris now gone I wasn't expecting any, as he was the only one who ever sent me Christmas cards (greeting and trading) anymore. But, considering how many cards I acquired during COMC's Black Friday sale (saying that I went overboard might be a bit of an understatement), I'll be more than flush with new cards whenever I get around to requesting my stuff be shipped.
I'm thinking that I won't be posting again on here until at least March (or April, if I'm lucky). I might do one more post on the non-card blog sometime in the next week or two, as I've got a bunch of pictures ready to go for it, then that'll be it for a while. And even though I've got all the research that I need done for a couple of posts on the Beavers blog, the writing of the posts is proving to be quite difficult at the moment (the vertigo), so it's just gonna have to continue to lie dormant for a bit longer. I'm really hoping that the talk/text thing works as well as it sounds like it might, as it would much easier to do posts on there if I could "write" post just by reading my notes aloud.
I continue to fall behind in commenting on the posts of my fellow bloggers, and probably will continue to do so -- but I will try to keep supporting your efforts the best I can, it just won't be as frequent as it used to be.
And, on a final note, if I by chance to decide to extend my hiatus past April, or if I decide to make it permanent, I will come back and say something, as I don't want to be one of those people who just disappears without trace (note to anyone who has done that, or is thinking about doing it... that's not cool).
Even though I don't say it enough anymore, I really do appreciate everyone that's ever taken a moment out of their day to click on one of my posts. I just wish that I could do more to show it.
P.S. I'm turning off the comments while I'm away, as I don't want to have to try and keep up with the spam when it comes in, which it inevitably will after about thirty days of no new activity on here. And besides , a "post" like this doesn't really need to be commented on anyway. I appreciate the sentiment/humor, but I don't need anymore "Hope you feel better soon"/"Sucks to be you" comments, as I can't help but think that some folks might now be under the impression that I'm fishing for sympathy. Rest assured, I am not.
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