Maebius Musing

Well, I managed to widgetize my blog, though I don’t think I’ll be going gangbusters and completely changing the theme and content here. However, for those of you reading this blog through feedreaders, hop onto the main site one time and let me know your thoughts on things. The only thing I really changed was to experiment with putting a last.fm playlist on the sidebar.
Specific areas of concern are the ever-growing blogroll list I have, and the archives list. not sure if I want to put them on a seperate page (for the blogroll), or otherwise figure out a good method of collapsing or reconfiguring them for ease of use.

Also pondering slightly different tags, and cleaning up the current ones, in order to make searches more valuable.

ALSO, also, I am going to be making this blog a bit more active hopefully. Less in-depth musing (like the recent ones had any depth to begin with..sheesh) and more “daily journal” style things. However, before I commit to such diary-style entries, I wanted to ask if you readers would even enjoy such a style, or would rather I concentrate more on the moon-musings and druid-studies? Let me know via comments, and if you want to add me to your own blogrolls, I’d be quite happy with a bit more exposure!

-Maebius

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Short post, just to update the site and let folks know I havn’t dropped off the face of the earth…yet.

Recent news includes attending an awesome birthday party for my wife’s grandfather, who turned 100 (yes, one HUNDRED) earlier this week. Huzzah!

Also tried to add some fancy widgets to the blogpage, which apparently completely blew it up and corrupted the current database. I did have a New Moon post saved, but the latest backup I had to use to restore said blog to life again did not include it. Sorry!!! (It was a musing on what to do when the seasonal festivals are upon you, yet your spirit is not quite ‘there’ yet. Do you put up the pretense of celebrating in hopes of convincing your inner mind to get with the current program, or do you accept that where you are HereNow is not quite aligned iwth the official holiday, and celebrate your own quiet way once the festive spirit hits you a bit later in the calender? Comments regarding this are quite welcome below. I don’t have the mental stamina to re-type it all now, due to working on other new posts….

The Blargh part of the title is due to a wicked sinus/headcold thingy I’ve had. Tuesday at work, I lost a good half hour from my memory. Just can-not-remember where the time went, and apparently spent the better portion of the morning staring slack-jawed at the same computer screen until my co-worker asked how I felt, thus snapping my brain back to reality. Yuck! Still feeling really really tired and achy, but not sick any more. I just hurt in every joint. Kinda like I always here ancient 100 year old men talking as they hobble down the hallway. Blargh!!!

So… to those few (all, three?) who stop in to say hello here, I’m still alive for now. Thanks for your patience. Your tinycities are continuing to grow and prosper. (Partly due to my home page in firefox being configured to open four cities in their own tabs at launch)
-Maebius

PS: All I can say is: the End Times are upon us!

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Another year gone, another year in full wintery swing! Welcome to 2008.
(or, as I shall deem worthy of calling it: 2 A.D.- After Druidry)

Most people take the opportunity this time of year to look back and reflect on what has happened in the past few months, and resolve to do things a little differently these next few months. However, the older I get, the easier it is to fall into the same old routines and then look back NEXT new year with at least a faint guilt about not doing somesuch thing. This year, my resolution is similar to my usual “Lenten Sacrifices”, which essentially means I don’t really give up anything except the attempt to give up.

This past year, many wonderful things have happened. If you are remotely interested in them, there’s a wonderful archive of this blog for you to research. *grin* I’ll wait……

Welcome back!

In the coming months, I resolve to try to make a few minor changes in my life that help out either my health (both physical, mental, and spiritual), or improve the health of those around me (again, mind/body/spirit). I won’t make a specific list of goals, for a number of reasons. Firstly, I’m a terrible organizer, and would forget them very shortly as Life distracts me pretty well from day to day. This would lead to guilt or stress if I did not “Do item X on my list”. (related post: here). Secondly, while I appreciate the focusing power of lists in order to help organize things, I am honest with myself enough to realize that I will think of different and perhaps ‘better’ things to do that trump or cancel out something I would add to a list. So, I’m going to work towards General improvements throughout the year.

However, rather than being completely vague and relying on a creative muse to inspire me to better my life as the whims of fancy blow chaotically through the coming weeks, I will resolve to be at least Mindful on one change every two weeks. A careful notice of moon phases will help remind me of such things, as I do want to continue my Moon Muse postings as well, so that you, my Humble Readers, have at least a semi-weekly blog to look forward to. (I do hereby grant myself a license to delay any posting which would coincide with holidays, camping vacations, and the like)

And so, with a new day planner to use at work which I now have marked up with important dates and pagan-friendly events, I will begin pondering more musings, will work on some minor changes to update you on each week if possible (even if only a single paragraph post), and work towards a Happy Maebius.

Kennit?
(By new favorite ‘word’ which is used by a new hire here at work, whom I could sit and listen to talk on the phone for hours!)

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Maebius lurks on various blogs about world of Warcraft, and obsesses over the limited free time he can be in-game earning phat lewtz. (More accurately, I wander around in areas I do not earn Experience, to enjoy seeing the places I never visited, but can survive much easier now…solo Scarlet Monestary FTW!)

One such blog linked a set of music they listen to while raiding. I commented that is was similar to Great Big Sea, a wonderful group that gets my blood pumping and my smiles lifting the taudry corners of the mouth even on the worst of workdays.

This inspired me to find all sorts of sources of good music to listen to at work. for your clicking pleasure, here is a fairly randomized list, as they hit my Bookmarks over the past week or two…

(Random side-note, I had this song in my head for the majority of this morning, not entirely sure why it popped in, or stuck so firmly..maybe the season of the year?)
http://www.juno.co.uk/psy-goa-trance/charts/bestsellers/this-week/perpage=500

http://www.heatherlands.com/seafire/index.html

http://www.celticradio.net/php/featured_artist.php?artist=2

http://www.greatbigsea.com/

http://www.freeirishmusic.com/

for video goodness, search for all sorts fo fun things at: http://stage6.divx.com/

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