It’s been a nice little hiatus.

I’m caught up in my personal affairs (the Oregon Department of Revenue no longer has a warrant out on me (long story)), and I’ve gotten my Microsoft expense reports out the door.

I’ve also had bronchitis (since November, as the doctor tells me). Still not over it, but working on it.

I bought a TV. It’s like being born again, but this time retarded.

I’ve chosen the book I’d like to write. I have a focus, a goal, and a high-level outline.

So, what about the blog?

The blog – she’s coming back. But different.

To be honest, I got a little bored with what I was doing. I love writing my little anecdotes and posting them here. The comics are fun as well. The occasional photo is nice.

But it wasn’t “doing it” for me anymore. I think your ego has to be huge to be able to enjoy nothing but posting your thoughts on a daily basis. My ego is large – I’ll give you that – but it’s not huge. It doesn’t ride shotgun in my car, and it doesn’t squeak like fingers on a balloon when I walk through a doorway, its incredible dimensions pushing back against the door frame on the way in. No. My ego may not be tiny, but it’s not enough to keep going like I was.

To remedy this, I’ve taken a couple people on to work on Neopoleon with me.

One person, as you can probably guess, is my girlfriend, Aydika. She’s an excellent writer, and we’ve been collaborating on the post that will “reopen” Neopoleon.com. It’s going to be fabulous.

The other person is an old college friend named Greg. He’s an interesting guy – fabulous writing abilities, and an interest in tech combined with a mad-genius type brain. He also lacks the technical knowledge to know if his ideas would succeed or fail, which is a great place to be. I sometimes have a hard time dreaming around tech because, as a former contractor, my brain immediately jumps to the implementation of the technology, and I might poo-poo the technology too soon simply based on tech limitations.

Greg’s great because he doesn’t have the same problem. He’s actually kind of stupid, so some of his ideas are as brilliant as they are foolish.

His perspective is interesting as well, as he has an interest in tech, but no strong abilities. He’s dabbled in code, done some work on the web, and so on, but he’s not good at any of it. As such, he notices the things about our tech experiences that really hurt, but that we, as techy people, tend to overlook.

In other words, Greg is going to be filling the tech-shaped whole that I left here when I started writing a lot more about non-tech topics. Also, Greg’s point of view is going to be more interesting than mine. Where I might bitch about some weird syntactical rule of Python, Greg will only address the big stuff.

Then, to round things out, Aydika is starting a blog with an interesting spin. I’m doing the technical work to get it off the ground (read: Installing DasBlog and then walking away (approx. five minutes of work)), but she’s going to be in the driver’s seat. There’s an unusual theme to the site. Provided it can be done correctly, it will be very interesting, indeed.

So, that’s that.

Expect to see Neopoleon.com become active again around this weekend. I’ve got a lot of work to do this week for my team, so I’m putting some things on hold.

I hope you’ll like the changes. For me, it’s almost going to be like starting a new site, and I’m pumped.

Until the weekend, I leave you with this:

– Does anybody else think it’s strange poetic justice that the former CEO of McDonald's should die of colon cancer?

– You know… There’s a story behind this story, and I really don’t want to know it.