For Posterity

So I'm starting this again (after a three year long false-start) in the hopes of actually being able to use it for something constructive. And really, at this point the constructive thing I'm referring to is just to keep tabs on what I'm doing.

I've realized lately that I've undergone a little bit of stress-induced memory loss over the years, and I have whole chunks of my life deleted from my memory, but with just scant clues of what it was I'd been doing.

For example, I'd been dumping an old iPod to my computer today, and I found on it a song I'd recorded that I simply had no recollection of recording. I mean, it's obviously me, an clearly I wasn't drunk at the time because I can't PLAY like that when I'm drunk, but there is an awful lot of pain being externalized there, and yet I can't remember the recording of it, or indeed the time of my life that it went down.

So I'm just gonna write here. And I'm not gonna pull punches. This is for me, and for posterity. You like it, great. If not... well, you've been warned. Not to say that I'm setting out intending to be an asshole, the kind of guy who deliberately hurts feelings in the name of "just being brutally honest." No, those folks are just pricks. I'm not a prick.

My musing of the moment:

I'm about to leave a job mainly because of the stress that was involved in it. Love all the people I work with (mostly), but this is a job for someone without a relationship, or any pets that need attention. LONG hours. Lots of running-around-type-stress. Not much being done to fix it.

So know this, workers of the world, when you hear the term "dynamic, fast-paced environment," run away if you don't like a stress-filled job with a lot of unpaid overtime. I'm going to a job that will be sufficiently less stressy, and I'll have a lot more control over the creative, and over what I'm doing, and how it gets done. I guess we'll see how it goes!