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	<title>The Blog of Nick Davis</title>
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	<description>Flourishing in the middle of nowhere</description>
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		<title>Organization is Tech</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I&#8217;m always in that bathhouse fight scene in the intro of Pirates of the Caribbean III where Elizabeth, Barbosa and the gang are sabotaged by crustationous-faced Asian sauna men. Swords clanging, stuff blowing up, yelling. One thing I&#8217;ve noticed in these types of fights is that no one ever actually finishes a fight. They just keep on twirlin&#8217;. I &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://nickdavis.org/2011/12/01/organization-is-tech/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel like I&#8217;m always in that bathhouse fight scene in the intro of <em>Pirates of the Caribbean III </em>where Elizabeth, Barbosa and the gang are sabotaged by crustationous-faced Asian sauna men. Swords clanging, stuff blowing up, yelling. One thing I&#8217;ve noticed in these types of fights is that no one <strong>ever actually finishes a fight</strong>. They just keep on twirlin&#8217;. I feel that way a lot. I keep swinging, hoping I hit something (which I do from time to time, thankfully), then swing at the next thing. It never ends and I keep on hoping for the next deus ex machina.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ve somewhat whiddled down the issue I have been dealing with lately to organizational practices. That statement is somewhat a lie, because I have known for a while that it has been organizational practices. I&#8217;m not organized by nature. To be honest, no one is really organized by nature (and if you are, you are either a robot or perfect).</p>
<p>Lack of organization has concerned me more lately than it has in the past. This is sort of weird to me, because right now I feel this is the best I&#8217;ve coped with responsibility in my life. My work is good, I am conscious of my health, I can be relatively proficient with house work, and Jacinda still loves me&#8230; Life is truly good. However, I am at a point where I want to foresee the tasks I have in the future.  Today, I just sort of wave a knife around until mostly everything is dead. I need more accuracy than that.</p>
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		<title>Begin Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NickDavis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is liiiike, what? My sixth or seventh reboot for a personal blog in my internet lifetime?  I used to be persistent with blogging, really. My blog was more-or-less a timeline of my life. Week-by-week updates, going-ons, etc. It was fun to write and people seemed interested. Not everyone had blogs at the time, either. &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://nickdavis.org/2011/09/08/begin-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is liiiike, what? My sixth or seventh reboot for a personal blog in my internet lifetime?  I used to be persistent with blogging, really. My blog was more-or-less a timeline of my life. Week-by-week updates, going-ons, etc. It was fun to write and people seemed interested. Not everyone had blogs at the time, either. Blogs were for the geek elite. There was also a complete lack of Facebook and Twitter. Internet communication has gotten smaller and a lot more interactive, rendering the personal blog nearly obsolete. Personal blogs aren&#8217;t <em>totally </em>dead, but they require a lot more thought than the 140 character updates everyone is used to spurting nowadays.</p>
<p>The last few years, my &#8220;blog&#8221; has been nothing more than a fun idea. Between the lack of time, a solid design that &#8220;expresses me&#8221; and falling out of practice (and into social media), I couldn&#8217;t conjure more than what I am writing right now: an apology to myself for not blogging a lot, and recap of recent events in my life.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am sorry for not blogging. And my life has been pretty busy.</p>
<p>A journal, blog or similar is somewhat therapeutic, like formulating a grocery list or planning for a trip. 90% of my writing, more or less, is for my own benefit. I just happen to share it when I do. Writing is a way for me to get my thoughts collected and organized. Likely, this will become a dump of my latest interests, whatever I am  enthralled with at the time, but there will also be the occasional deep pondering or perhaps subjects I don&#8217;t really care to talk about <em>normally</em>.</p>
<p>Hope you like biking, beer and board games.</p>
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