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Ok, first of all, I hate the term “blog” and related derivations. It makes me cringe, and when I went to the San Diego Bloggers meeting, I had difficultly summoning up the courage to ask the group at the table at Rock Bottom if it was the “blogging” group. Although only partially true, it smacks of amateur LiveJournal-esque emo bitchery. I have nothing against LiveJournal and MySpace personally – I have friends who post regularly on both – but there’s this popular perception of blogs as the domain of immature, ill-informed, melodramatic diaries espousing the plight of white middle-class high-schoolers. Uh, yeah, not the perception I’m looking for. Aside from the shotgun approach of personal communication to large groups of friends (like the last post), I usually try to have a point aside from detailing the contents of my grocery cart. If anything, I just call this my “website” or “personal site.” (Aside, Ally, who I met at the SDBloggers thing, I lost your number. [Doh!] Email me if you read this.)

(Even some of the better-written blogs I follow have fallen into some sort of online mutation of adolescent IRC: Rob, a bouncer/writer, [who’s met [Melissa][3] before, another talented NYC blogger] ended up going out with Mimi , a stripper/writer, and in one of the breakup posts she states that he’s fat, among other deficiencies, and Trix in Chicago, who’s met Rob before, claims the opposite, and Mimi responds with a convoluted it’s-half-me-half-you litany including both “You need to play games with women, push them away, see how much they can take, smack ‘em around (metaphorically), get them to run back to you,” followed by “I don’t play games,” … but who am I to judge, I don’t know any of them and their all have the right to post whatever subject matter they wish. Anyway, I dig the writing of all the above, but hell, it’s turning into grade school or a soap opera, I can’t tell which.)

Regardless, I suppose this is a “blog,” and I’ve been a bad blogger. Seriously lacking in updates with which to waste your valuable work hours. Photography and black belt testing (and requisite training) has been consuming me almost completely. Testing will continue for the next two months at a minimum, so posts may still be aperiodic, but efforts will be made.