Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on March 11, 2013 at 10:00 am

• Sequester, Day 4: Spent whole day looking forward to "Justified," only to recall that it's on *tomorrow.* Our doom surely approaches. ->
• RT @rsmccain: "Andrew inspired people. Frum mostly inspires people to actively dislike him." http://t.co/lVW9eo0fVx ->
• Major neuropathy pain. Meds aren't helping this time. I had plans for this morning that I'm going to have to put on hold. Dang it. ->
• RT @Ithildyn: The new #IronMan3 trailer http://t.co/DWCmpvC03F is made of win! Can't wait till May! ->
• Sequester Day 5: too ill today to find out if incoming t-storms and snow are real, or faked so we think we still have a Nat'l Weather Svc. ->
• RT @Beregond: Hugo Chavez is dead. Let's hear again how great the free universal health care in Cuba is. #tcot #p2 ->
• RT @VodkaPundit: Score one for cancer. ->
• RT @isfullofcrap: Okay, now that Hugo Chavez is dead, it's okay to cure cancer. GO RELAY! ->
• RT @JonahNRO: Breaking: Hugo Chavez first confirmed victim of sequester. ->
• RT @IMAO_: CANCER: "It was a long and tough battle, but I'm happy to announce that doctors have declared me 100% Hugo Chavez free." ->
• Ding, dong, the sunuvabitch is dead. #chavez ->
• RT @rsmccain: A famous celebrity notes the passing of Hugo Chavez http://t.co/3QhP6paoEV Hat-tip @Vermontaigne ->
• Sequester Day 6: floored by inner ear infection, roomspins. A tour of the White House might have prevented this. ->
• Sequester Day 7: DHS spends $50mil on new uniforms, but I can't get my new PC until next week at the earliest? C'mon, people: priorities. ->
• New blog post – Thus Spake Russ: Ten Years Here – http://t.co/Trt4j1kor3 ->
• Sequester Day 8: making Korean for dinner, but forgot to include kimchi in my weekly grocery order. This is what the apocalypse looks like. ->
• Hey! 10th Blogiversary today! http://t.co/zWGBhuZQji Shameless Self-Promoting Tweet, right here! ->
• Sequester Day 9: I begin to think the Doom! scenarios may have been over-hyped BS. But Doom! is most dangerous when you don't expect it. ->
• If geeks were as celebrated as much as athletes are, I'd be up to my neck in bimbos and coke, after the major problem I solved tonight. ->
• Fall down, go boom. ->
• Will we ever be free of the scourge of Daylight Savings Time? I find the entire concept to be ridiculous. ->
• If TLC is to be believed, "Gypsy Sisters" is synonymous with "Stupid Drunken Whores." I don't think that was their intent… was it? ->

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Posted By Russ Emerson on March 8, 2013 at 2:08 pm

Saturday marks ten years of my blogging here.

Since beginning on March 9, 2003 under the moniker “TacJammer,” I’ve put up a few thousand posts, and had a bit over a quarter of a million views. Some people get that kind of traffic in a week.

But I never got into this with the aim of being one of the big guys. I’m far more interested in what other people have to say than anyone will ever be interested in what I have to say. Maybe that’s why I maintain my blogrolls, when a lot of people have given up the practice. Sure, there are some dead links there. They remind me of great folks whose thoughts mattered, and there’s always hope they’ll be back some day.

I’ve written reviews, made a stab or two at photojournalism, done political commentary, posted a lot of light fluff, and written perhaps way too much about my ongoing Neurological Unpleasantness.

And of course, there’s been plenty of cat blogging.

I’ve found over three hundred Quotes of the Day, some profound and some frivolous, but all worth sharing. I suppose it’s been the blog equivalent of a Twitter re-tweet.

Yes, I’ve had an Instalanche. Not my best work, but nevertheless it’s a ticket I’m glad to have had punched.

Far more important to me than that, though, is that small cadre of readers who have stayed with me through the years. I’ve had the pleasure and honor of meeting a few, as well as a few of my fellow bloggers. I’d like to think I’ve made some friends through this medium, and I’d surely like to meet more. Which, given my disability, probably isn’t going to happen.

But there’s always hope.

I may not be as prolific a writer as I have been in the past — times and circumstances change — but I’m not going anywhere.

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