sunnyside up!

(leave your worries on the doorstep)

cumulus clouds (for tags and for real)

Above, the view of Manhattan from the rooftop parking deck of my local Stop and Shop.  It’s a glorious site — makes you feel at once humble (so small in the great big city) and yet so proud to be a part of it.

I had a thought while looking at the City: the only other time I felt the need to blog was right after 9/11.  I spent a lot of time gazing westward then, too, worrying about what the future had in store.  But I also felt totally alive to everything around me — and compelled to share some of my better-articulated thoughts publicly.  It was therapeutic, I produced some decent pieces, and I also made a couple of friends via that blog that I still cherish, regardless of how infrequently our paths might cross these days.

So, maybe my losing my job in December has ignited the blog-urge — I don’t know.  I do know that I have time on my hands, I feel the need to do more personal writing, and I might as well take advantage of the medium and you, my network of friends and acquaintances, to critique and comment.

Maybe I’ll use this blog to pitch for work — I’m starting to feel like I don’t want another job for a while.  I really am happiest when I’m free.  More on the subject of work and employment later.

I’ve implemented the cool “WP Cumulus” tag cloud widget for WordPress by Roy Tanck.  It’s cool — really much nicer than a flat tag cloud and fun to play with your cursor to influence the direction and rotation speed.  But OH! why can IE 6.0 not deal with it correctly?  Or should I not be worrying about IE 6.0 these days — anyone?

back to blogging.

I’m doing so much WordPress work these days that I might as well have my own sandbox. Expect random thoughts, reviews of local shops and eateries, and a lot of changes to the front-end over the next several weeks.

hello world

Been thinking of blogging again. Maybe it began with the lung crisis (”a near-death experience,” as NR likes to describe it, inaccurately, I assure you). Certainly there’s plenty to say about the lung crisis and so that’s how I’ll kick off this new blog. Already I’m having doubts about the name “Sunnyside Up.”

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I should have asked the doctor for a picture of the evil blebs. Alas, I was too groggy after the surgery to think of it, then too shy on subsequent visits to dare. Here is an x-ray image of somebody else’s bleb.