31 October, 2008

Overlooked 

I seem to have missed my own Blogiversary. I took my first, tentative steps into blogging on October 9, 2003.

There may be some who argue that I maybe should have left the maintenance page in place, LOL!

Thinking Out Loud has been going through some...I don't know, growing pains or something, lately. I've often said that moving through the world when you have a blog is a lot like always wondering if your fly is open. I know I've become a lot more self-conscious, especially in the last several months as I'm finding myself facing the age-old struggle of having a blog that people that I communicate with through my day job are finding. While I take great pains to not talk about work, except in the most general sense, there are going to be people who find things on my blog objectionable and counter to what they think my views on life should be, given my client list.

But I don't want this to be a Cat Blog, either. So, I hope you all will bear with me while I figure out what the next five years of Thinking Out Loud are going to be like.

Labels: moi, navel gazing, passages, remember, Why it is

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30 October, 2007

RIP, Fup 

It is with tremendous sadness that I report that Fup, the beloved Store Cat at Powell's Books, has died. She was 19 years old.

I saw her around the store on several occasions, quietly surveying her domain. Her presence is one of the many things that made Powell's such a wonderful place to spend a cold, rainy (or even a sunny) day. And anyone who's read the Powell's Books Newsletter has followed her "adventures" for years (it's the part of the newsletter I always jumped to first)! I am absolutely gutted that she's gone, but am happy to know that she passed away in her "home" surrounded by her loved ones.

Rest sweetly, beautiful Fup. You are missed.

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