I don’t know whether any of the four of you who read this blog have wondered where I am, but I’m assuming perhaps so.
As the title of this post suggests, I’m feeling that I have too many irons in the fire. This English idiom implies that I have too many projects going on at once, and one source suggests it has to do with blacksmithing. In any event, it means you’re trying to do too damn many things at one time.
That’s how I feel lately. I’ve been podcasting like crazy, keeping on with The Word Nerds week after week. We don’t have any sponsorship or advertising revenue yet, but we are hopeful that we may start making gasoline money soon. We have not missed a week since March 21, 2005, so we recently celebrated our first anniversary as a podcast. And we are happy to have a nice-sized worldwide audience.
I’m also teaching like crazy–three schools, three different administrations, three different sets of faculty meetings, and so on.
And the baseball season is about to start. There is an exhibition game in two days between the Washington Nationals, my hometown team, and the Baltimore Orioles, our rivals from the other league, 45 minutes up the road from Washington. The Orioles have a storied history, having won the World Series in 1983, and having fielded a number of successful teams until recently.
Luckily for the hapless Nationals, the Orioles have fallen on hard times, and even in spring training games, the Nats have beaten the O’s several times. After an unexpectedly strong first season in Washington, chances are pretty good that the Nats will suffer and bounce around the bottom of the division standings this year. No matter. I have good seats behind home plate.
I have a ticket for the Battle of the Beltways (Washington and Baltimore) on Friday of this week. And I got an email this morning telling me my season tickets for the Nats are on the way! They even gave me a tracking number! Life is good! Spring has sprung!
I can relate. I went almost a month not blogging (mostly because my beloved Macintosh was toast). But part is too many irons in the fire. My problem is made worse by a job that requires much travel. Which means weeks, like this week, when I’m actually home, people plan things around my presence. So I’ve been at church three evenings in a row, and in between been producing our next podcast and a quarter, planning the next three, etc. etc.
But if we’re going to be real bloggers, we need to post regularly. My goal is three times a week, but some weeks I just don’t have the energy (of course I have to do more grammar checking and look up more words than you do). Ah well. I managed to put something up today too, although I was a little light on the grammar checking.
But I have no intention of leaving livejournal. My blogging needs are modest, and one whole new set of stuff to learn this spring is enough.
Well three new sets of stuff. For work I’m learning Java and how to use our products.
My word verification “ykgmuahx” has GMU in the middle of it. Go Patriots!!