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I'm blowing the dust off my antique blog for compound and cumulative reasons.  The most accurate and relevant of these is the acute manifestation of irreconcilable differences between my burgeoning Twitter addiction and my place of employment's newly reasserted policy against wasting public resources on social networking.  They're cracking down on me, so I gotta change my evil ways.

Of course I spend a good deal of my social networking time interacting directly with the public whose resources I'm ostensibly wasting, performing several of the functions our underutilized CRM system is supposed to be taking care of - things like public education and outreach on departmental policies, customer response, timely construction related PSA's and just plain old setting the record straight about what's abuzz in the City.

Regardless, I strive to do good and ethical work during my time in the Public Service barrel so I will keep my Tweeting efforts segregated to my own time and resources while I try to assuage my need for connection with a mass audience by blogging and attempting to promote my efforts to the high quality local forum I've been lucky enough to cultivate after such a short time in the Twitterverse.  In other words, I miss my Twitter folks so you guys stop by Unsoft's List every now and again when I put up something new!  I'll be Tweeting in the evenings, on weekends and hopefully posting daytime blogs throughout the week also.  After all, most of the best of MY Twitter community is also a blogging community.  Maybe, with a little practice and dedication, I can also be a contributor.

The older posts here were all written by me 5-6 years ago and have lost much of their relevance in almost 2011.  I am making no effort to "fix" them (editing old references, bad links, evaporated images, etc.).  I have to admit when I go back and reread that I am certainly much the same even if another half a decade of travel into the 21st Century has rendered the world nearly unrecognizable in some respects.  Go back and read the old posts if you are so inclined, but if you don't NBD.  If you decide to crawl back into my history a little, be aware that I am a little more refined with my language these days.  You certainly won't encounter adult content but you might run across a few more objectionable words than you will from this point forward.  Not that I can promise you a comprehensive moratorium on F-Bombs, crass references or double entendre from here on out, because sometimes even I still resort to less than gentlemanly communication habits - I just get more disappointed in myself when I do.

I have to admit I'm a little excited about getting back to blogging a little.  Twitter has reawakened my literary and creative demons but I'm really out of practice!  This is so much more than 140 characters and I've nearly lost my ability to punctuate, compose formal sentences and I'm almost positive I missed a few double spaces after end punctuation that I still can't recognize after rerererereading.

I have done only the most basic profile editing on this old blog so I will be reshaping it over the next few days and weeks.  I believe I will keep my old school handmade format and my neato seahorse image for now.  I forgot how much I liked them.

Welcome new readers!  I'm sure you are the only kind there are.  Feel free to comment so I'll know you stopped by.  See you later on Twitter!

TFish726