PSA: Blog Not Dead. Blog Update

EDIT: IMPORTANT - This blog's url is now raceology.blogspot.com. Yay! It's a much simpler thing to type and remember. 


Hello all, or any.  I'm sorry that I've been away but I've been extremely busy and stressed dealing with just getting back up on my feet after coming back from abroad. It's been tough and dealing with drama every week, or every few weeks. Progress is being made, and I'm thankful for that.  Despite being disappointed with many things, I'm glad that at least currently I have a job so that I can put a roof over my head, and feed myself.  I'm working in a multifaceted industry that I haven't ever worked in before, doing yet another job that I hadn't done before.  It isn't exactly glamorous, but at least I don't have to work like a beast of burden, and mainly just sit in a chair in an office all day.  The good thing about the industry is that it is multi-faceted as I've said, and if teaching myself new skills, etc, plus completing some certifications, gaining experience etc. works out, it is possible to get into a totally different role in that industry and that opens A LOT of doors, but I'm not quite there yet.

Think of working in the film business, for example, there are the writers, the cinematographers, the make-up artists, the animators, the people who do voices for animations, the actors, the directors, people who do the sets, and so forth. I don't work in the movies but I'm just giving an example of what I mean by multifaceted.  Theoretically you could move from one job to the next, if you could develop the right skill set.

Lots of stuff that I have to deal with and some that's been backlogged for many years, but I'm trudging through it.  Unfortunately, that means there will be some changes to this blog namely:

CHANGES TO BLOG:

• I will only post about once or twice a week.  Complex original articles, or something of that nature may only be a once-a-month thing, and I may only post once or twice in a month.

• There's not a lot of traffic here anyway, so I suppose I won't have to do much in the way of moderation.  Engelman and sonofseawolf don't seem to be around much or do much in the way of posting, or moderating comments, but I'm pleased to see Engelman posting his articles here, and occasionally his comments as well.  He's done well with that, so good job!

• For the Cafe Chat Off-Topic I will make a Yearly or Bi-annual Off-Topic Thread, I won't do it month by month since there aren't enough comments to warrant that.

• Despite getting a lot of original stuff from AmRen to get me started, I will ultimately try to distance myself more from that and not use, or feature a lot of material in the future, it seems that AmRen has gone in a direction that I don't particularly like, and I am disappointed in some of the response from there (more on that later).

• History, travel and work sections will be expanded and updated. I apologize for the delay.

• Work on an actual website will be postponed.

Calling all Authors:

Calling all authors, if you have something that you'd like to post here, a well-written article that conforms to the rules, and is in the general range of interests of this blog, be it race, work, travel, anthropology, international relations, politics, or classic works of literature that had an impact on the world, or whatever, please let me know so I can host your article(s).  I really want to try to entertain a broad range of interests here. 

Anyway, I'll try to be around every now and then as I've said, but due to all of the work I have to do, I can't make any promises. I have to struggle as always. Wishing the well-wishers well.