Reasons Not to Blog

It’s been almost 3 months since my last post. You’re welcome. I hope you’ve enjoyed your time without my nonsense. Besides subjecting you to fewer bad jokes in your life, I feel I have other equally important reasons to not have blogged for quite a while.

I was desperately trying to semi-retire, but it was more difficult and time-consuming to wrap up a career and clean up the loose ends of my company of 17 years than I thought it would be. It is finally all wrapped up neatly, and I now substitute teach a little to support my numerous habits and vices.

Oh, there was also an election that we won’t speak about much. It’s a shame really, because Dems locally scored some big wins. Anyway, I found myself spending a lot of time walking and biking neighborhoods passing out political literature. And then I was required to allocate some time to get signatures to get on the ballot for the local municipal election in April.

But I’m burying the lead. It really was a deadly illness that preempted my blogging.

I wasn’t sick. It was my oldest son who was diagnosed with sepsis. In emergency surgery, they drained a water bottle full of infected pus (good name for a punk band) from him and took a huge chunk of dead or dying tissue from his back and side. It left a gaping hole in him that is still healing from the inside out. All is not resolved yet with him, but at least I’m no longer visiting him in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. That was perhaps the hardest time of my life. I’m supposed to be the weak, dying one, not him. Blogging was the last thing on my alleged mind.

It did give me time to reflect on what I want to do with this blog. I do want to continue, but changes are coming. I’m not sure what they all will be, and I’ll address that after Christmas. For now, I plan to enjoy seeing all five of my kids at Christmas, including my still-recuperating oldest son. I will ease back into blogging with some “beginner” posts between now and the end of the year. For those of you that didn’t miss my blogging, that’s both a promise and a threat.