I have just spent the past several hours re-reading all my old posts which currently reside in draft mode.   I outright deleted several of them long ago in one of my fits of rage over some imagined slight or some such nonsense.  Most of them remain however, and in reviewing them I found many quite unreadable.

 

In many cases I was left wondering just what in the hell I was thinking at the moment of writing.  In others it was clear enough but the delivery was rather inept.  There were those few gems though that I may indeed put back up for public perusal.

 

OK, that is pretty much out of the way.  

 

It has been an interesting year and a half since I went tech free.  I have recently acquired a new laptop and am just beginning to reconnect with a few old haunts.  I will try not to become over involved with the Internet this time around though.  I have rather enjoyed my time away and have found that there is indeed a world out there that does not revolve around high tech gadgetry.  I did keep my cell phone but found that I seldom carried it when I was out and about.  Interesting that!  I had become so dependent upon the damn thing that I would feel almost naked without it.   Now it generally sits on the desk and goes into my pocket only when I know with a certainly that I will need it while I am out.

 

I did stop by for a short while last summer while visiting my old friend downstate.  At that time I was telling about our attempts to rekindle our friendship after many years of neglect.  We have managed to get together several times since then and we have indeed found a new basis for friendship, one that may have surprised both of us those many years ago.  I have even considered his offer to have me move in with him.  The main issue there is geography.  He lives over two hundred miles away and my sons both reside locally.  My daughter lives out of state so the distance isn't really an issue there as we are already several hundred miles apart.  The main issue is of course the grandchildren, all six of them are local and I don't want to leave them.

 

His house is fairly large though and is in a pleasant neighborhood.   It would certainly be easy for me to get used to the idea of having someone around all the time, especially considering my deteriating health.  I haven't mentioned any of this the my kids yet, but I think they might resist the idea.  

 

Enough about that. 

 

It is strange in a way being back here and I find that I have after all that time away very little to say.  I just thought I might just stop by and say hi.