It’s a fresh month and that puts it as prime time to start something new. I’ve been remiss with the blogs over the past month, and I’m diving into a variant of an earlier summer project to get more active within this place. I once-upon-a-time attempted to write my posts a week in advance, completing a chunk on Sunday and scheduling them for the following days, This functioned for a time until a few weekends in a row I grew too...

It has been some time hasn’t it? Almost a month now since my last post on this feed. Long time readers might not be too shocked about the delay but those of you who started reading this year are likely to be surprised by the long disappearance. The past month has been quite a mix of activity in and around my personal life. The primary dismay has been the last two weeks, where I spent most of my time either sick or recovering from...

The following is a meta post regarding the blog and the status of the blog. Frankly if you aren’t too concerned regarding the details of this blog, don’t worry about this post. It’s skippable. If you’re interested in how I view and manage this site, keep going for some insight and don’t forget to ask questions at the end. Last week there was a lot of work done on the blog. In terms of content, design, and...

Oh I have a busy weekend coming up. There’s going to be family, friends, and social gatherings to attend to that all fall between Saturday and Sunday. Creative projects are coming to a head. Plus I get to spend more time connecting to my community. Busy but it’s going to be fun. First, we’re gathering for early Christmas setup and not doing gifts this year in our normal fashion. Instead, we’re having a baking party....

Getting into further development of myself, I’m about to embark in a new process. I’ve started to think along the ideology that my personal self and my writer self are two separate people. By that I mean who I am as my web persona, nulloperations, is a different being than the brand I present for J. Samuel Diehl, my writer self. Both are me, yet at the same time not. Nulloperations is about expressing my interests, my joys, and my fun....