New Dawn, New Day

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Okay, I know it's more evening than dawn, but I'm not always a crack-o-dawn type of person. I usually meet it on the back end, rather than with a face to face confrontation. But, it is a new day and a new month. Which means, at least for me, changes. Not big, and honestly none completely defined yet, but changes nonetheless.

It feels like every time I blog I do something that prompts me to tweak what I do. I think the overall goal for me is to achieve some kind of clarity. I don't know how it looks on your end, but it looks preeety bad from my neck of the woods. Of course, I'm my own worse critic, so that's understandable.

Don't get me wrong though; I'm proud of the incremental changes I've been making and I believe there has been increasing improvement.

Well, I said all that to let you know what's been going on with me since I dropped the ball on TOSS (Better luck next year, right? *Fingers Crossed*).

I haven't updated "Rock, Meet Hard Place" (Update: Post removed) since the stall. But hypocrite that I am, I did do a couple of other stories ("Then the Walls Came Tumbling Down" and "Melting Pot"), both on Yahoo's Associated Content.

I added another blog....

I know, okay. I was just complaining about spreading myself too thin, then I go and add a blog to my so-called full plate. I told you already--I'm a hypocrite.

Anyway, It's called Under Tutelage. No posts yet, but I'm expecting good things from this blog. My most studious one yet. But I'm not going to say much else about it until it's up and running. You'll see.

So, to tally it all up. I have the blog you currently on The Life Shuffle. This is like the hub blog: I come here to just yap, talk to my peeps, tell you about the books I'm reading and give you news about me--like the above stories, if nothing super exciting is happening.

Then there's The Pool (Titled: Wading in the Pool and also linked in the pages at the top of the Shuffle's own front)-- I write stories there, so far there's only two, but hopefully there's more to come.

Life's Mobile, Let's Go (Update: Name changed. It's called Tumult of a Quiet Soul now, and has a new url.)- this one's more outside news and random other stuff (issuesque things, advice, essayish stuff, idk). Still very frank and conversational.

 Under Tutelage, linked above.

What else...?

I Tweet more. Random sheet. What ever interests me. Follow me there. I do follow back when I think to  update everything I "own" on the net.

I guess that's it.

Oh, I found out Trick-or-Treaters don't visit your house when you live in the middle of nowhere and in a cul-de-sac. Even if you just bought four bags of candy, that's now going to wastefully rot or rot your teeth out. They don't know you got it. We got two. ToTs, I mean.

Next year we don't wait for them, we go after the Trick-or-Treaters. Be proactive...

Does that seem a weird thing to do to you too?