I spent the day hanging out in Scottsdale with a friend from work. After a long day of doing nothing, I came home to go on a run. For those of you who know anything about Phoenix, I live on the corner of Kyrene and Baseline. Tonight, without really thinking about it, I ran all the way down to Rural Road (Scottsdale Road), and then north over the sixty and up to Southern. Well, really I ran to the Tempe Library. It's on southern. Then I ran back here. All told, the distance is 4.0 miles (6.4Km). I did it in 37 minutes, so I'm pretty happy with that.

When I got home, I logged into my Feed reader and caught up on all of my friends' blogs. Such and such are still pedometering; so and so is still temping but doesn't have any work lined up for next week; what's her name is soliciting guests for spring break; someone's mom is starting her own blog; some gal's new husband is freaked out about her blogging and she just got a new dog; and that one pilot flew to Guam and got to stay at a Hilton ON THE BEACH! So I'm pretty well caught up.

But I also looked at my blog.

I have to say, I haven't been very ambitious with it lately. It's not for lack of trying though. I think I may have run out of things to say. In the last few days I have started no less than ten entries, but neglected to finish any of them. I was continually nagged with the thought: 'What's the point?'

I have to admit, I have been in a real funk lately emotionally. A lot has happened in the last few months. Some things I am just trying to get used to, other things I'm trying to get over. My mind is always running and it seems that it's a half-beat behind. And so I sit down to come up with my metaphor for the day; alas, nothing. I have tried to come up with my very favourite abstract comparisons that relate to what's going on with me, and yet, I've got nothing.

I don't do concrete, and therefore, I'm blocked. I'm stopped up like a tourist in Wisconsin. So there you have it. What can I tell you? Thank God that other people are writing blogs.

You might notice that the look of my site has changed slightly...again. What happened is that I installed Movable Type 4.0 on my server in order to optimize my blog. How "optimized" is it? Well, I don't know really. But you can leave comments now, so that's a bonus.

Actually, the whole reason that I switched from the software that I was using (the stuff that I created), and went to Movable Type is quite simple. Why reinvent the wheel? These guys have already done all the hard work. I can upload videos and pictures and PDFs and cool crap like that. It's pretty wicked.

Despite the fact that the software is really great, learning how to make the layout work the way I wanted took a lot of work. I had a lot of help from some online sources. It took me a little over two weeks, off and on, to get the whole thing set up. There are still a few bugs, and I will be getting the kinks worked out over the next few weeks. These kinks are problems with my layout, and not with the Movable Type software, and so I don't think that it should take very long.

If you had subscribed to my RSS feed previously, you'll need to resubscribe, as the old one will no longer be producing new content (sorry).

Anyway my friends, thanks so much for reading. I am looking forward to having comments finally!