Diary of a Network Geek

No, not “blue” content. Adult!
You may have noticed that this blog is getting more and more adult. I don’t mean that I’m talking about smut more, but about more adult, and personal, things. As I focus less and less on the family I lost, and keeping things safe for a thirteen-year-old girl who doesn’t want to talk to me, I talk about less and less family oriented things. Oh, sure, I still try to keep it “clean” enough for her to read, if she should so desire, but I’m afraid I talk about things that would mostly bore her now. Discovering who I am and what I want out of a relationship and how sad it is that her mother is so, so bitter even though she left for “greener pastures” and just what really matters most in life. Of course, she’s getting to be that delicate age when those kinds of things do start to matter. To the girls, anyway. At thirteen, the boys generally think girls are just wierd, as I recall. (Honestly, I’m not sure much has changed for most of us! I like ’em, but they’re still a little weird to me.)
I don’t worry about what my ex-wife might read what I post. Frankly, if she’s still reading at this point she deserves to see that I’m happier without her than I was with her. That dose of reality might do the Harpy some good! Nor, do I worry about relatives, old or new or somewhere in between. Of course, my friends mostly know all this already, so, no worries there. I do try to keep it clean for future employers, though, which is why I have a delay on my comment moderation system. Just in case someone, or something, tries to hammer my blog with spam, I can kill it all.
But, still and all, the trend has been toward personal posts of increasing adultness. Eventually, I’ll probably end up bloging about new girlfriends, when I find them, and more about my explorations of spirituality and culinary grace. Eventually, I suppose, I’ll do something more interesting at work, and then, of course, I’ll write about that.
In any case, you’ve been warned.

No, not for me.
Though, if you want to contact me to revel in your geekiness directly, you can leave a comment that starts “Privatz: “, or something similar. I’ll keep that off the website. Just be sure to include a good e-mail address so I can respond.
But, what I was referring to was a call for submissions to a new essay project called She’s Such A Geek. Subtitled, “An Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books, Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution”, the project is open to geeks of the female persuasion only and is meant to be an exploration of feminine geekiness in all its splendor. Specifically, they’re looking for essays from girls/women/ladies who consider themselves geeks on what it means to them to be a geek, what their mode of geekiness is to them, and how they found their geek niche. Frankly, for the sake of my poor, estranged step-daughter, I hope this book turns out well and stirs up some very positive talk about geek girls. I hope she’ll see it one day, and know that she’s not alone, or even all that different. In fact, I hope she’ll learn that what she thinks of as “geekiness” is really just a form of creativity or, even, genius that’s rare in this dull, grey age.
And, forgive me for mentioning my ex-wife again, but, if she were to write an essay for this work, I wonder if she’d be honest about who taught her the joys of comic books or Japanese animation? Could she be truthful enough to admit that she knew nothing about it until I made her watch Akira and Ghost in the Shell? Eh, probably not, but, then her memory gets a little flexible when it comes to her various ex-husbands.
In any case, if you’re one of my few readers who are members of the “fairer sex” and consider yourself geek material, think about contributing to the book.