I’ve been scarce on the blog front for a while; both this blog and my work blog have suffered badly. Sorry about that – work has been ridiculous (which is a good thing) for the last few months, and I have a client who wouldn’t be happy with me blogging too much about what I’m doing. We’re leaving for three weeks in Japan in a week, and getting work squared away, planning (and budgeting!) for that has been intense.<\/p>\n
Plus there’s the malaise…just looking around at the scenes (California, the nation) that interest me – it’s all bad news all the way down.<\/p>\n
But BG got Internet, and we’ve had some great chats, and – I’m embarrassed – I look at the fact that he goes to work every day and risks everything when he’s as upset about everything as I am and get pretty deeply ashamed. It’s not like I do much, but throwing the seeds of ideas out there and trying to trigger discussion is what I have and can do. So I need to do it, and – once I get back from Japan, I will. Or maybe even a bit before then.<\/p>\n
Right now, I’m thinking about Afghanistan and Vietnam, and while no it isn’t Vietnam, the parallels to the way we’re approaching it are becoming frightening to me.<\/p>\n