Posted 3:39 PM
I'm Sailing...Away?

It's been almost one year.

One year since I've divulged the non-secrets and excruciating minutia of everyday life, the half-thoughts and semi-truths, the things which mean nothing to most and not much more to a few select others.

I stopped writing because I was uninspired. Truth be told, I felt I had become boring. Blogging became like homework. It was daily drudgery, and it wasn't fun anymore.

I took more pleasure from reading the rants and raves, non-secrets and semi-truths of other people's lives.

But I began to realize the theraputic value of expressing the half-thoughts tumbling in the dryer of my mind. And while decluttering my house last night, I began to realize that no Tide or Windex or even those Scrubbing Bubbles could wipe clean 10 months worth of stuff piling up.

It's been almost one year.

And in a year, nothing is terribly more exciting, although I'm about to sail into Pittsburgh, figuratively speaking. I've been on a nice, relaxing, quiet journey up the Ohio River. Soon, I'll have to make a choice.

The Monongahela, or the Alleghany?

If you're familiar with baseball, Western Pennsylvania, or are just a river buff (what makes one a buff, by the way? Wasn't that a Seinfeld episode?), you know Pittsburgh sits "Where the Monoghela and the Alleghany meet to form the Ohio.

One river will take me down familiar waters through a new environment. A new job in an old career.

Another river will take me down unfamiliar waters through a completly different environment, where instead of getting orders...I'll give them...all day long...to pilots. How many of you would trust me guiding your plane into Springfield, C-Bus, Knoxvegas, Ft Myers, or Charlotte? Actually...I'd do better than some of you might think. ;-)

Then of course...I could say "Screw you, Pittsburgh!", turn my vessel around...and sail right back where I came from...where the water is like glass, the scenery is beautiful, and all sorts of fun people board my boat, guitars and six-packs and card decks in hand.

This used to be a familiar topic on My Arch Enemy's blog. He ended up leaving us to go be a hack.

Wherever my ship goes, I hope you'll sail along. And maybe read about the trip along the way.