i don't know how 90% of my conversations with people started revolving around me being single, but i'm really getting tired of it. another few close brushes with relationships, but now i'm through. i stayed true so far - no relationships in 2012!
So, I've finally gotten the new editor up on Tabulas!
You can access it at http://tabulas.com/cp/editor/
Features? Well, it's simplified significantly for the writing experience. The hope is that it encourages more long-form entry writing.
The editor box autoscales to the height of your content, so it reduces the "double scrollbar" problem that's on the current editor.
It also features a drag-and-drop image uploader (and a multi-select image uploader) which should make sharing images much, much easier.
And best - autosave. It will autosave whatever you're writing into drafts so you don't have to worry about explicitly saving! I do need to do some more work to prevent accidental loss (for example, if you load a draft, then start writing a new entry in the same box, it will wipe away the old draft), but it's a great start.
For example, here is a photo of me at Oktoberfest:
And here I am at Max's wedding:
(Sometimes the editor has problems with problems with the heights when images are there - a bug I'll surely nail down).
I'm not requiring this as the default, but I would highly suggest you play with it and help me work out any issues with it - it will become the default soon enough!
And here is a partial screenshot of me authoring this page:
been a while, old friend.
This year has been an insane year for traveling.
I rang in the New Years in Vegas. What a start.
I was up in San Francisco in February, then headed to Vegas in March before I left for Spain for two months. The Spain trip was: Madrid, Andalusia, San Sebastian, Barcelona, and Menorca.
Came back, then drove to the Grand Canyons and then the Salton Sea (a great day trip).
Went up to San Francisco again in July, then followed that up with an East Coast swing (NYC, Boston, and NC) for a friend's wedding. August and September were relatively quiet (a few day trips up to LA), until this Europe trip (Brussels and Munich) for a wedding and Oktoberfest.
I have to count my lucky stars that I get to travel for fun so much, but to be honest, it's starting to wear on me a bit. I don't plan on traveling for the rest of October or November, but I'm starting to think about going back to Brussels for winter. I've never experienced the *cold* winter in a big city, and I've been hearing lovely things about how nice Brussels is around Christmas.
I've already booked Vegas for NYE (becoming something of a tradition), but the big question is whether I should make it out to Brussels for December... would be nice to head out there after Thanksgiving and come back before NYE...
. . .
While I've really enjoyed the traveling this year, I wonder if my stubbornness in staying single is a symptom or the root cause of this need to travel. It's easy to tell yourself that you *can't* have a relationship while you're traveling around - but I wonder if I simply keep traveling to avoid having any meaningful relationships.
It struck me today how true this was with all the recent people I've been socializing with. I feel like I've gotten incredibly good at making a good first impression with people - hitting it off with strangers for a single night and getting to know them and having a great conversation... then never following up with those people again in my life. It happens a lot with dudes ("one night bromances" - when you meet some random dude who doesn't know anybody else at the wedding, and you end up connecting and talking like old friends all night - but never seeing them again), but I've noticed an uptick on this happening with girls lately. I'll flirt, we'll have great conversations, we'll have a connection, and then ... I'll never follow up with them.
This doesn't sound very healthy - just sounds incredibly nomadic.
. . .
One of the things I realized about the wedding I just went to - it's time I do one of two things: stop being nomadic, or stop using traveling as an excuse to not connect. Invest in people, invest in a personal relationship... I feel like I'm starting to get over the pain of last year's relationships.
. . .
It's been a while since I've had a fun crush.
Back in the day, I used to crush on girls I could never actually date, to use them as my muses (something my therapist was not healthy - WHATEVS).
Somewhere along the way, I started crushing on girls I had a chance with, and that was not good. Screw that!
I found a wonderful crush at the wedding in Belgium (and no, that has nothing to do with my decision to want to come back to Brussels), so if you suddenly start seeing a ton of motivated work coming out of me, you'll know where it's coming from (funny how that works for me).
Sitting in a hotel room in Brussels right now. Drove back from a wedding in southern Belgium earlier today.
Gotta say, this one hit me kinda hard. Enough to the point I ended up leaving the reception early-ish (like 130am - the party went on until 5am) to go for a drive to clear my head.
Not sure what it was about this wedding... but could be that I had to really examine my friendship with the groom (I gave a toast during the wedding), or maybe that I'm getting to that age, or the fact that nearly everybody else there was in a couple (think there was one single girl in the party of ~80), or maybe it was the fact that I was in a completely different culture (the Belgians are a curious lot).
I'm not sure what it was, but I definitely feel like something inside me's changed. I'm starting to feel the need for a rather big life change...
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