Chris Berry On The Net

I’ve had plenty of distractions to keep me from posting here regularly for the past couple of weeks. Between dying dogs, a 4 year old in the midst of a particularly unpleasant phase, and a variety of conflicting family and volunteer responsibilities, life has been pretty hectic of late. Somehow my volunteer work for Gallop 4 The Greenways seems to be taking more time every week, and we’ve still got six weeks until the event.

There is a more disturbing reason that I haven’t kept up here lately, and it doesn’t have anything to do with dogs or children or greenways. The sad fact is that I am simply too disgusted to write about anything going on in the political world. I can’t remember a time when I’ve felt more discouraged and more powerless about the direction our nation is headed. The corrupt bastards who run the show in Washington seem determined to drive our nation over a cliff, and those of us who’ve always played by the rules are powerless to stop them. While there is no shortage of blog worthy material to expound on, I simply haven’t had the stomach for it lately. Maybe that’s a sign that it’s time to focus on something new for a while.

On a more positive note, I’ve found that my Twitter experiment has turned out to be far more valuable than I would have anticipated. Several of the contacts I’ve made have resulted in freelance projects that have kept me pretty busy lately. Right now I have five different websites in various stages of completion, and several new folks who are interested in my services. It seems that my knowledge of WordPress might actually be worth something after all. I started blogging a year ago to keep myself busy, and I may have accidentally developed a new career skill in the process.