You haven’t seen much of me around these here parts lately, which some of you may consider a a blessing. The reason for my absence of posts is threefold. One, I became a more than a little burned out over the debt ceiling debacle. It’s hard to feel motivated and stay engaged when you feel you are fighting on two fronts, one a bunch of corrupt evil bastards and the other your putative ally, who seemed content with giving the evil bastards most of what they want even though it did not profit him or the country.

Two, this is the beginning of allergy season where I live and that means my immune system overreacts, causing me to feel constantly ill. Most days I wake up in the middle of the night, my back and ribs and knees in pain. A lot of pain. This does wonders for my sleep patterns as you might imagine. I’ll spare you a recounting of the rest of my symptoms as I’ve beat that horse to mostly dead. Anyone who doesn’t already know the story of my autoimmune disorder just Google TRAPS disease if you’ve got time to waste.

Third, I have been working on a novel for the last two years. It didn’t start as a novel but it ended upo that way. I am now in the process of tweaking it and trying to find a literary agent willling to take on an unknown author whose written a book that doesn’t fit into any of the the established commercial genres of “murder mystery,” “crime novel” “suspense thriller” “romance” “science fiction” or “Stephen King style horror.” I’d probably have a better chance publishing a self help book or “spiritual guide” or Christian Apocalypse Second Coming fiction (or “non-fiction”) but that wasn’t what interested me. I’ll see if it can interest anyone else who might be able to get it in print. Otherwise it will end up as an e-book in all likelihood.

So with my time and energy being limited, I’ve been posting less here. I could continue letting you know about our gradual slide toward a police state, the follies of the crazy Republican frontrunners, the financial Industry;s ongoing criminal activity, the utter failure to address climate change (which if you’ve been keeping up with folks like me who post on the subject has been accelerating while Big Oil doubles down on tar sands and hydrofracking technology while we choke on the toxic fossil fuel fumes) but there are lots of people who cover those beats and most write about them better than I do.

This isn’t to say I will be leaving Booman Tribune, only that my posting here will be less frequent at least until the election season gets serious (which may never happen considering how absurd our politics has become). If I had unlimited energy resources at my disposal I’d write 24/7 about everything in which I’m interested, but the flying spaghetti monster left my tank almost empty at the moment. Nevertheless, this is not a “goodbye cruel world” type of thing, it’s more an “I’ll see ya when I see ya.”

So, no cheers and huzzahs or crying and gnashing of teeth (depending on your particular opinion of me) is in order. Unless you can’t help yourself, that is.

Cheers,

Steve