The Poop Deck

Its kind of like the reports we hear about someone’s experience who survived the Bermuda Triangle. Disorientation, malfunctioning compass, strange occurrences and visions that appear so real yet, uncertain if it is or not.
Reality is up for grabs and they are all alone to try and define it for their survival. They just want to get out and back to familiar circumstances of their reality as they understand it. That is kind of how I feel and yet it seems that defining “familiar”, perhaps “stability” is illusive.

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Over these, almost 2 years now, I have been dealing with “stuff” related to my past and the past of those I have lost in these years and before these years and of those still with me of my generation and prior generations. This process has helped me in some cases reconnect with a part of my life that makes me who and what I am, and also helps me understand me a little better. It has also raised questions that beg for answers yet to be discovered.
Most importantly, I think, it has made me realize how long I have been “Living in the now”, forgetting where I came from and not thinking much about “tomorrow”, the future as much as I should have these past years.

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My last entry was in February of 2006. To say “a lot has happened since then” in my life is an understatement to be sure. While looking back at those last entries, of February, to get caught up with where I was then and what want going on then, in light of what transpired since, I will summarize the year in this post from the last entry and then in following posts, go into more details as my recollections and reflections motivates me and they will be posted in the appropriate categories. I will try to keep it chronologically accurate if I can but the purpose of this is for an overview of the year at this point.

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I just thought I would offer some quirky observations. A rambling, if you will, of stuff.
I thought I would do a search on AOL for “Poop Deck”, just to see if my blog showed up in my life time. AOL search brought up 5,121 pages. At 15 links per page. That is 76,815 links if my Radio Shack calculator is working correctly.
I looked at the top 25 pages, and my blog didn’t show up. So I didn’t make the top twenty-five.

Then, I Googled Poop Deck,
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I have concluded that I am not supposed to submit comments to posts.
On two occasions I have spent time composing comments on posts. Rather insightful ones at that. And when I click on submit.. ZAP!.

It is lost forever. Can I compose in “Wordpad” then cut/paste to the comment box so if it gets lost from the blog I at least still have a copy?

I have had more fun coming up with the category titles and descriptions/purpose.
Attention Admin: if you find any mispellings let me know or correct them. I tried to get it right. If not, lemme know.

What time zone is this anyway? My clock says 1:56 PM right now.

Even when the old dog wants to learn a new trick they tend to try using what they have already learned and apply it to the new trick even though the new trick has nothing to do with the old trick, and the dog gets that frustrated confused look behind his muzzle. I have to remember that, for the most part, my blog is a “forum” of one…me and basically, about me and my thoughts on things. I am not very good at talking about myself. But I digressed. I want to figure out how to configure the opening page with some features I liked in the forum I have observed. I will need to discuss some of these ideas with the admin. and perhaps show him what I am trying to do.
But so far it has been fun trying to come up with category names and sticking with the theme. I think I have done pretty good. In a way it is making me sit down and take stock of all that is going on in my life and what and who is important to me and all that. Not a bad thing. Nobody said life would be smooth sailing.

As you can see, I have created some catagories. I will post to the proper catagory according to its purpose so those interested won’t have to scroll through a bunch of “bilge” to read just what they want.
This is kinda fun huh?

Okay, I chose a Title for this blog as you can see. I’d like to find an image of the stern of the Titannic just before it slipped out of site, or a view of the stern area (Poop Deck) from above either from the movie or of the original ship.
I don’t know, but it just seemed an appropriate title for me for a variety of reasons. Any suggestions?