Look Back in August


A small personal landmark that went past unnoticed. My tenth blogiversary - at around 10pm on August 22nd, I'd been writing here for years in double digits.

Ten years ago....

  • I was dealing with the end of a hopeless relationship by getting pointlessly drunk and having lots of meaningless sex.

    This last weekend I got drunk with some old friends and afterwards decided to re-visit an old cruising ground, just to see if it still worked for me after all these years.

    And I had pleasantly meaningless sex with three strangers. One of who I kind-of almost fell for - we swapped phone numbers, but any thought of a relationship is, um, hopeless. Which is fortunate, because I only feel romantic when I'm drunk.

    That at least is different now.

  • I was teaching myself to sing, and trying to record some songs. But constantly getting sidetracked by technical issues.

    Today, having promised myself I'd start work on some music, I hit upon a way to synthesise a strummed guitar instead. And spent the day working on that.

  • I'd just finished a contract with an idiot employer.

    Yes.

  • I was running around with a band of socialists, despite severe misgivings about their theories, strategies, and indeed aims.

    Now, most of my non-net friends are disenchanted socialists.

  • I had vague ideas about being a science fiction writer.

    I have vague ideas about being a horror writer.

  • I was back living with my parents.

    Yes. But they don't seem to mind so much this time.

  • I couldn't figure out a snappy way to end a blogpost.

2 comments:

  1. Happy anniversary! 10 years ago I was in a dead end job (still am) and a doomed relationship (I've since come to realize that ALL of my relationships are doomed). The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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  2. Ten whole years? Well, it seems you could have spent your blogging hours more fruitlessly, or with a more frenetic debauchery,

    Here's to another 10 years!

    Disillusionment with Socialsim (of the ostensibly benign variety, as opposed to its' mirror-image national(ist) variety, I presume?)

    All it takes is a dash of human nature and a few years of lived experience.

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