Yes, I am a curmudgeon

I know I am being a curmudgeon, but I don't feel the least inclined to look at Goolge+. My life is already too full of social medias that I don't have enough time to manage. Waa waa, I whine.  I just recently put our parish on Twitter hoping that it may help communicate weekly events in the parish, but I doubt much of our parish utilizes it. I have looked at Facebook as a means to communicate to the parish, but often just avoid it because I don't care to see that some "friend"  just got a great deal on shoes, is having a great day or needs help in the latest game obsession of Facebook. Google+ sounds very interesting and the reports from various bloggers using it is are promising, but I'll pass for now.

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The internet – Community & Communication – Blogs and other social mediums (Facebook – Myspace)

I’ve been bitten by the blogging bug since February of 2010. It was reading Grognardia that inspired me to start up Grevious Injury. (It should have been Grievous Injury from the start, but that’s water under the bridge.) After poking around there I found many other blogs both in the OSR community and beyond that I followed thanks to the fun folks at Google. 

Blogging remind me a lot of chat rooms except you can never be sure who your audience is, or even if you have one.  Yeah you can track visitors to your site, but in the end you may put a lot of effort into your work that no one reads or appreciates. I guess that raises the question that Tenkar recently talked about, why does one blog? Why does one read blogs?

I read blogs because I seek what others have to say, what their experience is, what’s going on in their game/life and what they may have to share about things in general. For the most part it is a combination of entertainment and information that I seek. It is a time dependent reality for me. Summer is slower, had the recent attack on a fellow blogger happened during Lent or Easter I would probably have missed it or just glanced at a few of the postings or comments without having much time to reflect upon it.

Why do I blog? I guess it gives me a chance to babble about things that I normally don’t chat about in my daily conversations.  To be honest I don’t think I have a whole lot to say on blogs other than to indulge my ADD thinking patterns.  I don’t invest the level of dedication, talent and creativity I see in a number of the OSR blogs and on the some of the other blogs that I frequent.  I admire those who do invest their time and efforts to share with others.  I get irritated in verbal conversations when someone makes an asinine comment about others “having too much time on their hands.”    I can’t help but thinking I have found another swine to whom I will not throw the pearls. I try not to knock creativity even if I don’t completely get it or feel drawn to a particular expression.  

Finally, I think there is a real disconnect between what people think of as “anonymous” and its potential backlash in real life. The various Facebook-Myspace-Twitter dramas show a profound lack of good judgment regarding the nature of a social medium.  If you can’t stand behind your words, better to never put them into print. If you don’t want the world looking at your picture/post/comment, don’t post it.

The look of the blog & being Irish

Well, I went with Irish colors. Don’t know if I will like them long term, but right now I am fairly satisfied with them.  My mother’s side of the family tree is all Irish. Dad was a mixture of Scotch-English and tended to be a little less emotional than mom and her clan.  When I think of my experience with my Irish relatives I think of laughing, arguing and crying. I know there are other emotions out there, but those three were the main stopping points at most family gatherings. I love my Irish roots even if I blame them for some of the screw tendencies I possess as an individual. I try my best to indulge the laughing part of my temperament, honestly acknowledge the sorrows of life and try to make sure anger is harnessed without being allowed to become reckless or repressed.  It’s not easy being 70% patient and 30% WTF reactive?!?!  Odds are that I can resist being phased by something, but there is always a chance my humanity gets pinched and my Irish get hold of my mouth before my brain is engaged.  

More on the blog

I still have no idea what happened to Grievous-injury and why blogger went on the fritz with it. After patiently waiting for two weeks, yesterday I decided to make the best out of a frustrating situation with the launching of this blog. I kicked around a number of ideas and themes for the blog, but decided to go with nothing more focused than whatever I feel like sharing on the blog. I suspect this blog will become a substitute for GI if it never returns. However, unlike GI I hope to post on a number of topics that interest me. I won't be posting about politics or offering much social commentary on this blog but will occasionally mention religion/faith/spirituality. At some point I want to get around to offering my thoughts on the nature of communication via the Internet in terms of both its pros's & con's.

Welcome to @ Padre's

To whoever finds their way here, welcome to the new blog! For the life of me I cannot figure out what is going on with blogger. I thought I would be doing myself a favor with changing the name of the old blog, but for two weeks I have been unable to post anything on it. I imagine that I will mainly use this blog for all of my RPG stuff, but since I changed the name away from a RPG term I hope to broaden the commentary a bit more.  I have numerous interests, so whatever grabs a hold of my Sesame Street attention span may find its way here.