TheDaver.net

Fie! A pox on the author of this blog. As said author, I’ve let you, the faithful reader (assuming there is such a thing) down, allowed thedaver.net to decay into just another backwater of the internet swamp…stagnant, stale, even fusty (a great word if ever one existed.)

However, a new dawn is breaking. I hereby resolve to get back on my feet…er, keyboard…and do thedaver.net justice. I must warn you, however, there is precious little material to work with at the moment. Work! It’s all work, all day, every day. Yea, though the summer has ended I walk through the valley of Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and Apple Final Cut Pro, and I fear all marketing material. (Sorry, a touch blasphemous, methinks.) Point is, not much going on right now except the rush to get things done. What makes it all so difficult is the fact I really don’t have a clue how to do what I’m supposed to do. Thankfully I am surrounded by people much better than myself, people who do the heavy lifting.

But! I haven’t quit thinking, for goodness sakes. Here are some thoughts to share, to hold you over until I can really sink my teeth into a topic.

- I was given a book lately, “Chasing Daylight.” It’s about seizing your “divine moment” and living the life of danger and adventure that God calls us all to. After reading page 46, the single worst page of writing I’ve read in many years, I’ve decided I would rather eat shards of glass than continue reading this book. Maybe I’m just in a bad mood.

- I’ve been watching the political election/convention drama. Here’s an obvious fact: Both parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, are a bunch of liars, swindlers, fabulists, deceivers, shysters, and much worse. The candidates, the advisers, the strategists…they all comprise a cabal, specializing in the craft of making noise favorable to themselves and harmful to the other, the truth be damned. Aided by their enablers, MSNBC for the left and Fox News for the right, the political/media machine has begun it’s assault upon the good people of this country in earnest, acting smart but excelling in the asinine. God help us, and please pass the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones.

- Sarah Palin was pretty awesome, however.

- Favorite moment of the Olympics: The German weightlifter who won the gold medal and held up a picture of his recently deceased wife. Watch the drama here.

- Olympic sport I enjoyed the most while understanding it the least: Field Hockey.

- If you like to read, and I know you do, and you like the craft of writing, you might like this guy. I read every article he writes.

- Hurricanes are bad, bad things (well, not intrinsically bad, they just create bad situations.) But, when a hurricane causes a family you know to evacuate and come stay with you, and a friend of that family comes along and makes everyone homemade gumbo…well, that’s a good thing. And it was.

- It’s nigh impossible to find a lovely rent house on the edge of the city with country views and a couple of acres of wooded land and a stream and a fence and a landlord who allows pets…all for $800/month. Really, it’s just not happening.

That’s all for now. Please don’t give up thedaver.net just yet. I’ll try to redeem myself.

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