Blind Prophecy

Thank you to everyone who sent birthday wishes. I’m a little behind in reading LJ because it’s been an eventful and busy week. I had this terribly ambitious “30 things I’ve learned at 30″ post I was working on, but when I couldn’t get past 18 things, I decided to abandon the concept. The only one that was really clever or unique to me: #12 One uses the same set of skills to act as media spokesperson for a national nonprofit organization as one uses to emcee a show of male strippers at a second-rate gay bar. It’s true.

On Tuesday, I spent the whole work day putting together a major mailing (you should never be too proud to spend a day stuffing envelopes) and then had my birthday dinner with friends followed by drinks at Martuni’s. It was a nice night out and very low-key. Yesterday we had a lot of meetings throughout the day and I had a lot of email and small projects to catch up on, followed by meeting up with more friends for the He’Brew Beer (from Shmaltz Brewing Company) Tasting at Toronado. I’m not a big fan of beer, but the Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA lived up to it’s claim of being sweet on first sip and bitter in the aftertaste, and the Origin Pomegranate Ale was tasty enough. I didn’t try the Messiah Bold, but other people in our group seemed to like it (as a rule, I don’t drink dark beers).

Basically, though, I haven’t been home before midnight all week.

I came in at the end of strikethroughgate, so I don’t really know how to feel about it. On the one hand, I can understand the frustration and anger many people felt over the whole thing, but as someone who started reading about it around the same time the apology and explanation was offered, I’m not a victim of the frustrating wait for an explanation. I’ve been toying around with the idea of moving my blog to a new site and hosting my own website for a few months now, and strikethroughgate is giving me more reason to consider it, but there are things about LJ – specifically around communities and the friends page – that I haven’t seen in any other blogging software and I’d be loathe to give those up.

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