Check this out. House after house after house with a for sale sign in Temecula, CA.

Repeat to yourself, “There is no housing bubble…”

Well over a year ago, I quit my job and promised myself I would begin writing, begin blogging, to be a part of the world in ways I felt my job was preventing me from doing. It is now clear that I have been holding myself back, allowing fear constrain me rather than taking chances.

The alarm bells telling me to move past the fear have reached a crescendo. It’s time.  Time to share my thoughts, to take risks and allow myself to fuck up. Safety can be dangerous.

“What dull barbarians are not proud of their dullness and barbarism?”

-Wm. Thackeray

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

And, although I’ll pull this down in lieu of something more integrated into the site in a day or so…

Click on the above to sign up for bluehost hosting and I’ll get a referral fee.

In OS X, Apple has built Readline/Emacs-style key bindings into most of it’s apps. I’ll add a link to the complete list of these keybindings. but the best one ever is that Control-A will place the cursor at the beginning of your current sentence. Great if you want to place the line you’ve just typed in quotes or parentheses.

(Use Control-E to go to the end of the current sentence.) This works in Safari, TextEdit, Mail.app and most other applications that are part of the OS. (Of course, it also works on the command line.) Sadly, it does not work in Firefox.

Okay, folks. Happy new year. I’ve been silent too long, and I’m going to start using this to write on a regular basis. Still doing some setup, as I’ve moved my hosting to Comments (1)