M-IS-ISOL35NOISE

I am not quite sure which is worse to encounter on a rainy Saturday morning brunch with friends: watching an antsy little girl struggle to eat a piece of toast, or to sit and listen to some hippies say the words "dude" and "like" about 50,000 times in a half-hour. When I finished my brunch with Bob, I'd have to go with the hippy dudes and dude(ettes) that occupied the table next to us after the family with the overactive little girls left. At least, the girl was too busy eating a piece of toast to be challenging anyone with their amazing vocabulary skills.

But, I did learn something new today that I didn't know before, some words of wisdom for all of us to ponder. Apparently, the success rate for surfers is based solely on their appearances. If you look like you could catch some good waves, chances are you really won't catch them after all. However, if you don't look like you could get the good waves, then you will actually do well. Hmmm....I would've thought that it's the other way around. If you looked the part, you'd know what to do and would be skilled at it. For example, I never would imagine that I'd be any good at surfing. First of all, I don't dress like Matthew McConaughey. Also, I can't swim. Therefore, I'd be terrible at surfing. But, if you applied this dude's wisdom, I would actually be good at surfing. That doesn't make any sense to me.

I wanted to turn to the guy and say "Whoa, dude. Let's catch some waves, man!"

Current Listening:



What Happened
by Emeralds

I took a mental health day from work after working overtime for the past couple weeks. So, today I am using this extra time off to work on my ongoing blog project, which is to merge all previous attempts at blogging over the last few years together into one place. Well, actually, it's two places for the time being. Since I like elements of both Blogger and WordPress, I have opted to use both for the time being to see which one I prefer to use. This is a work-in-progress and will take some time to complete but we will see what the end results might be.

Current listening:



Music for Loving
by Maja S.K. Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug

So, the debate rages on (solely in my head, that is) in the "where I do I want to go from here with the blog" category. I like blogging overall, but haven't had much motivation to really keep up with blogging. I am beginning to wonder whether or not I want to continue to pay for the domain name and the web hosting when I can do the same thing for free. Besides, I am not very good at the whole web design thing. My work life has been insanely crazy over the last few months, which has left exhausted creatively by the end of most workdays. That results in a complete lack of motivation towards keeping the blog.

So, with all these meandering thoughts in mind, I have opted towards no longer keeping this domain name and instead have decided to continue my blogging over to the free version of WordPress (wordpress.com). So, what I am going to be doing over the next few weeks is to recreate the entire existence of my blogging life (over the course of the last few years and the several different sites I've used and kept during that time) to two new spaces that will ultimately be mirrors of each other. Because I like both WordPress and Blogger, I am keeping an address for each platform. The new location(s) for this blog will be:

Blogger: isol35noise.blogspot.com
WordPress: isol35noise.wordpress.com

Since both of these sites are in the "work-in-progress" state of things, there will be noticeable differences in the posting of entries for the time being until they are in sync with each other. So, you might find surprises in each site. Why do I want to use both sites? Well, as I said earlier, I like both platforms for different reasons and want to experiment with both before I decide to go with one or the other.

As I always say, stay tuned.