At least to me, it seems like I’m not posting as much lately. I suspect that if I go back and count things, I’m probably running at about the same pace; it just doesn’t feel like I’m putting in the time.

Granted, there’s been a bit more of life out there to take up my time these last few weeks. Between the flurry of activities bubbling up around the idea of it closing in on the end of the school year, and the fact that work has entered an interesting new testing phase, which means that a lot more of my headspace is occupied with things like writing up system defects and learning about new and terribly interesting things like variable index-based pricing formulas, I haven’t had a lot of time to spare.

What time I did have to spare got taken up by things like a few evenings out with friends to things like exciting baseball games and ren faires, an excellent tapas dinner thrown by some aquaintances, throwing way too much money in too short a time into automotive upkeep, losing a couple of elderly fish, the usual stresses of careers, relationships, parenthood, and home ownership, working out those stresses by beating up dwarven cultists on Wednesday nights, and occasionally trying to carve out half an hour to just sit on my ass to catch my breath.

And in 48 hours or so, I’ll be headed off to Balticon.

So yeah, it’s been a little bit crazy. Maybe it’ll let up soon, and maybe it won’t. We’ll see.

In any case, being the time of year it is, lots of people are graduating from various institutions of learning (including a few friends of mine for whom I have quite a lot of pride), and a somewhat smaller (but still significant) number of people are delivering speeches at these graduation ceremonies. Sometimes, people in that latter group are occasionally interesting in ways that I completely wasn’t twenty years ago.

People, like, say, Neil Gaiman:

So be wise, because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.

Good Advice. One of these days, I’ll get around to following more than the mistakes part. There may have been some art, though, depending on how wide your definition of “good” is.