Monthly Archives: November 2008

Hello folks,
After a large haitus, I’m rededicating myself to be back on the blog wagon. I may not always have a lot to say, but I need to have the daily outlet and the platform to talk about what’s on my mind these days, because, frankly I’m doing a lot. My wife and I have been running a web business now for over a year (http://www.archerwebsolutions.com) and we’ve been doing very little marketing, because we’ve been overwhelmed and just trying to finish the things in the pipeline right in front of us. Now, we’ve taken the plunge to get an office and hire employees, and so it’s really important for me to start to get myself out there, and I think that getting my blogging skills back up again is going to be a key factor of that. Not that I’m going to use my personal blog as a platform to promote my business, but rather, having the daily output of ‘what i am doing’ will drive my ability to write better copy and to blog in a professional capacity on our business blog. So, it’s the morning and I have to get to business needs, but I thought I would drop a line and say ‘hello again’.
Also, let me leave you with things little fun nugget:
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It’s not often we get a chance to confront our own inner d*ckhead, but today I got to see it first-hand. Every once in a while I find myself tripping down forest trails on facebook and finding friends-of-friends-of-friends, and locating folks I used to know in previous parts of my life. Recently I did this, and friended an old high school classmate, and was met with a very angry ‘how dare you’ response, making reference to a ‘psycho’ post I made about this person, and initially I was confused. I hadn’t remembered making any such post about this person at all – why would I? I hadn’t seen her in years, and never had anything against her, but I decided to check out my blog history, just in case I had accidentally said something that could be misconstrued. Well, I searched back and about two and a half years ago, there’s a post by me that included some vulgarity and thoughtless statements about this person that should have never been written, much less to a blog post on the internet. I would publicly apologize to this person, but I don’t want to feed her name back into the search engines and start the cycle of impropriety over again. I’ve removed the original post, but unfortunately the post is archived and will exist on the way-back machine indefinitely. So, not only have I alienated a potential friend, someone I really knew nothing about other than our brief acquaintance as kids, but I’ve defamed her in a public space. I feel like crap, and can only figure I was drunk when I wrote the post, but ultimately it was inexcusable and I don’t even deserve to ask for forgiveness. All I can hope is that the information falls off the radar, and searches no longer turn up my post for her name. I wish I could say ‘oh, it was such a long time ago’, but the fact that it was only 2 1/2 years ago belies that argument. Really, I have to just face that due to whatever unresolved childhood issues, or whatever crap I might have been going through at the time, I have a part of me that can be an ass, and can be truly insensitive. So, even though I don’t deserve to be forgiven, I ask for her forgiveness. I felt this had to be a public apology, but I just can’t include her actual name.

I’m proud to be an American today, but not so proud to be a Californian.