Once again I’ve fallen into a bit of a torpor. My attention to the vast world of the Internets has dimmed. Every few days I start up NewsFire only to be overwhelmed by the sheer mass of new posts I’ve ignored. Typically I just mark all of them as read and close it again. I just can’t bring myself to be interested lately.

I’m going to give it another go, and try first to start with this little blog of mine. While I’d never expect to have something to post every day, I’d really hate to abandon it.

So, catch up time: Since last we spoke I did manage to secure employment. It’s a second shift position — less than ideal, but better than nothing. I start in a little over a week. I’ve gone and completed my physical evaluation, gotten another vaccination, and picked up an ID badge. I’m hoping a job brings some kind of sense of purpose.

I haven’t let the past few weeks go completely to waste. I have a few new projects to post as soon as I’ve mounted and photographed them. One of these is a particularly impressive bit of cross stitchery that has been about a year in the making (more on this later).

Most of my time, however, has been spent on Dragon Quest VIII and Super Mario Galaxy. The former I picked up some time last year without devoting much time and the latter was a Christmas gift. Both are excellent.

It hasn’t been all video games and cross stitch. My other, other out-of-work obsession has been vegan cupcakes. Here’s my latest, and prettiest batch: Chocolate Mint Cupcakes:

Hi. I’m not dead.

For the past few weeks, having totally recovered from my surgery, I’ve been slacking off on my online duties. That’s not to say that I haven’t been away from the PowerBook. I’ve been working — very slowly — on a redesign for my friend’s label Bop Tart Records and hitting my head against a wall on the design. I know what I want to do. I know that I want to use mootools to do it. I just don’t know how to get there.

So my routine has been to load up the mootools docs, the mootorial, and TextMate and bang away at a few things that never quite come together. I know I need to just get the basic functionality in place and then worry about the style elements but it’s difficult to be inspired by ugliness. So, I just give up after a few hours and pledge to try harder later.

I also need to change this site from the prototype and script.aculo.us setup I’d put in place to mootools. Unobtrusiveness is particularly needed. I just. . . keep slacking off. I want to make progress on the label before doing too much to my own site.

For you, gentle readers, I will make every effort to do just that. My apologies.