Clearly I am not all that good at keeping a blog updated. I have the best of intentions, I assure you. The sad fact is that intentions don’t get blog posts written.

Things continue much as they always have. Spring briefly came — rather, it’s fighting Summer over the thermostat and no winner has yet been declared. Temperatures hit 90 degrees this weekend, though they’ll be back down to the high 60s in the middle of the week. After this, I’ll be writing a strongly worded letter to Al Gore re: the effect of global warming on the now-crispy herb seedlings I planted in late March. My ivy was fortuitiously returned to my air-conditioned workspace a week or two ago, after thoroughly enjoying its repotting and recuperation, and thus escaped the hot death that visited the seedlings.

In the past six weeks I’ve had many an excellent weekend sleep-in and late breakfast; read many a post from other, more prolific bloggers; and taken not all that many photos of my cats, considering. (The effort of getting photos from the camera to my Flickr is frequently too much to bear. Sometimes the camera is even in another room. Also the cats are attuned to the whirr of the lens opening and, when they hear it, will stop whatever photogenic mischief they’d been up to.)

I do hope my life begins to settle out a bit in the next six weeks. I can’t seem to stay satisfied with much of anything: how I write, where I write it, what the desk is like, how I’m connecting to the internet, much less what I write. Instead I am grumpified by everyone’s need to pick their Top 5 random anything and post their choices on Facebook. I am made cranky by the proliferation of transcriptless videos in place of blog posts, posts that have images for the sake of including an image (I’m looking at you, personal finance blogs; you’re collectively lucky that I use AdBlock or I’d wish a plague on all of you), and mini-icons that some blogs feel the need to include on every post.

Public Service Announcement
I am NOT on any of the following linksharing services and/or social networking sites: Bebo, del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Kaboodle, MySpace, Meebo, Newsvine, Slashdot, RadiusIM, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter, Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo 360 or Connect or whatever they’re calling it now, or Windows Live. I am here at lastsyllable.net, reluctantly on AIM, and in Gmail. Needless to say, I have my own antiquated methods of passing on a link I happened to enjoy, and I do not appreciate the visual clutter of all this various bullshit begging me to click and send a link to each and every one of my friends. Even less do I appreciate the bigger icons that expand to a list of all these sites (and more!) on a hapless mouseover. I hardly even use tags, by Ovetchkin’s skates! And in my wee corner of the intertubes, such frippery will not be tolerated.

Also get off my lawn.