I’ve begun a couple of new policies when it comes to blogging. When we came back from our trip to the east coast, I realized I wouldn’t die if I didn’t check my feedreader every 20 minutes. I went two weeks only checking it a few times, and instead of feeling behind, I felt better. Who would have thought! Too much blog surfing has the tendency to make me cranky, because when I overindulge in some of the especially well-written, frequently-updated ones, I start mentally flogging myself for not being able to produce the same. Yes, I’m totally jealous. I’m tired of this.

Anyway, what this means is A) I am no longer going to stay up stupid-late to catch up on blogs (hoping the girls will let me sleep in), and B) I am no longer going to do the same to post to my own. This means letting go of my fantasy about updating several times a week. Firefox 2.0 has already helped things along a little by killing my Bloglines extension (thank you, Mozilla).

I guess I’m starting my New Year’s Resolutions about being nicer to myself a little early.

Speaking of holidays, we are not fighting 200 miles of traffic to go to my mother’s for Thanksgiving this year. We’re going to a restaurant, and we’ll be bringing half a Tofurkey to substitute for the real thing at the dinner. It’s actually quite good. I don’t really care if the restaurant doesn’t like it.

Aaaaand, all the photos from our trip east have finally been uploaded:

New Jersey - mostly northern NJ, but also some central and a trip to an abandoned mental hospital
New York
Pennsylvania - mostly around Pottsville, my sister’s town. The wide-angle lens did wonderful things with the clouds. Wish I had had time to go poke around Centralia.

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Links!
My chillout playlist at FineTune
What being a dad does to guys’ brains
The Bug Chasers - article about people that actually want to get AIDS
Colbert Clips
Great time waster: the Face Transformer