the otherwhirled

Okee, well, it’s fairly obvious I’ve not had time to post much lately. In fact, I’m rather chagrined by that, and it’s got to stop, because my catharsis level is pretty low, and that’s not healthy. I don’t post much on my personal blog, either, but my intentions there are to be somewhere along the line of weekly, anyway. Daily family updates and belly-button lint investigations are kind of stupid; weekly’s not so bad.

I’ve considered pulling these blogs back together, a semi-ironic thing because long, long ago they were together, and I split them apart because I perceived different missions for them. I already had the domains, and the domains were just sitting uselessly, so I figured what the heck, why not use them? Well, that was a decision born out of the fact that even as a primary gig, my photography business at the time was floating somewhere part-time and three-quarters time even when the going got tough. Now that I’ve taken on a full-time job and am still juggling the photography gig alongside heavy involvement in local and state soccer, plus TaeKwonDo, it’s pretty obvious why I haven’t had time to blog much. But, ultimately, I still want to keep the domains separate, if for no other reason than the slightly higher technorati ratings I enjoy here, and a lack of desire to attempt to merge this database with the other one. It’s not huge, but Wordpress’s import/export doesn’t work on it because it’s too big.

And I’ve been thinking about what I’ve been doing over here, and I’ve come to feel pretty redundant. We already have wonderful quip-meisters snarking on the photos, and that’s exactly why I’ve been stepping away from that lately. And politics, while important to me, gets rather redundant. So, I’m coming up with some ideas that are going to incorporate the snarky side of my atheism as the primary focus, with secondary focus on stupidity in general (which no doubt means there will continue to be plenty of politically-oriented stuff). I will be trying to keep tabs on the anti-abortion movement here in South Dakota throughout this election cycle; they apparently have another coup de stupid planned. I kinda like my JESUS CRAP™ stuff, so I’ll probably keep that going, and I also want to offer this space to my friends over at Atheist Nexus. I like the idea of having roving guest-bloggers; it’s a great way for us to promote each other and enrich our readerships’ minds.

The other thing bugging me is the monicker of “commander other”. It came about because one of my blogging friends out here in South Dakota has a running inside joke with another friend, in which they call everyone commander [something]. Marlin applied a commander [something] label to me that i really didn’t like much; I retorted with “How about something other than that,” and “commander other” was born. Dubious circumstances, at best. Besides which, what the hell do I even command? My own destiny? Eh, maybe. My household? Hardly. My children? Rarely. This blog? Gah, not even effectively. Everywhere else in the world that I operate, I’m Synthaetica. I’m a little tired of wearing a name that has no meaning, so I’m going to quit doing it. It’s not a major thing, but I think it’ll help me feel a little less schizophrenic.

I also re-discovered a quotation from one of my favorite bands, And Also the Trees. It goes like this:

“They tell me all that they know is the obvious,
and if I stay with them, maybe I will learn it, too.”
~ Simon Huw Jones

That’s a hell of a lot more meaningful as a tagline than “where nothing is real, and everything else is sacred,” so I’m going to lift it, with attribution, of course.

Lastly, I’m working on changing the blog theme to something a bit more readable. I’ll naturally stick with a theme from milo317 because she does such wonderful work. The site will be choppy for a little bit while I’m getting all this sorted out. Hopefully, I won’t blow things up. The choppiness might last for a couple of days, though, because I’m seriously swamped with work, but it should be pretty obvious when it’s all done. The theme will be last, so when that’s changed, all the rest is changed. I’ll probably follow it up with updates to my blogrolls and one of those handy technorati-bumping posts for everyone.

Peace.