Citizen :: Being an army of one is tough, but I have a plan:

I consider myself a pretty easy going guy and because of that sometimes I feel taken advantaged of. My personality is such that I'd rather put forth something in good faith and risk the possibility of losing it if I feel there is a greater chance that something fruitful will come of the experience. Still it's sometimes necessary to "close the account" and move on to more productive things.

Over the past year I haven't written about my work nearly as much as in seasons past. Simply put there has been little drama or unforeseen turns which have blindsided me from my daily focus on Getting Things Done. Sure there have been ups and downs, lefts and rights and confrontations of egos where I've had to play the nice guy or be the bastard. The truth is those stories aren't really the reason I write things for this site, and I question whether they belong here.

My other main preponderance, which came about only through the redesign of the site template after several botched Joomla Upgrades, is about a site like this one's role in a post-blog world. What do I mean by post-blog? Well it started with sites like Twitter and ended up at facebook. These days the random sort of commentary that was the cornerstone of this site now belongs to Tweets and Status Updates.

These days EVERYONE is on facebook, twitter, etc. The social networking boom is unfortunately taking place after many of the coolest sites have closed up shop. Like blogging in the early days, there is no stopping the juggernaut and to hopelessly flail against the onslaught is fruitless. Instead of decrying the downward spiral in content quality of friends and foe's weblogs I've decided to take up the more noble quest of bringing the two together.

At this point it's an early stage pipe-dream but as I've learned over the years many of the best concepts start this way. I also accept that my particular profession makes me a natural fit for the job and besides I'm also working with a bunch of people who are trying to do the exact same thing for a certain old-school industry. We'll see where this journey takes us, but until then stay tuned to this site for more details as they develop.

I'm thankful to have everyone back home tonight. My son was hospitalized 9 days ago for a severe case of RSV. It's been tough but thankfully our family pulled together and received a lot of help from extended family and friends.

I'm still reflecting on our health care experience but I expect you'll see a formal synopsis of both my experience as well as the successes and failings of the current system. There is a lot of talk about nationalized health care, at least for some, and I believe that this will harbinger of change within the medical "industry" as a whole.

As I'm fond of saying: Stay tuned. More as it develops.