From lojban-out@lojban.org Thu Mar 29 07:40:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 15780 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 14:40:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.72) by m42.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Mar 2007 14:40:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net) (69.17.117.4) by mta14.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2007 14:40:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 2315 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2007 14:40:32 -0000 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 29 Mar 2007 14:40:32 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWvnb-0005fi-Ly for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:40:25 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.66.169]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWvmO-0005cV-RJ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:39:40 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWvju-0005cC-Et for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:36 -0700 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.188]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HWvjf-0005c3-FO for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:32 -0700 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so346253nfb for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PqvbB1V03K5FhzP8Z6KClqXqIKkpnp6HOf0htDYQKLMa75YkBk5A98Ob1wJZ1QXWjODbfA56mSLNOW8LUz1ilIQqTdgkte5nKziWew/IomGDWz7f2iPX7Ot02ZI1qPPZQQXMiRNIEKwRzj4cETAAKCTx89TZ2xrzd+n4u4EQfPc= Received: by 10.78.106.3 with SMTP id e3mr344981huc.1175178976323; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.44.12 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:36:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 13641 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.5 X-Spam-Score-Int: -24 X-Spam-Bar: -- To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 69.17.117.4 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0 X-eGroups-From: "Matt Arnold" From: "Matt Arnold" Reply-To: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] I haven't gone away! X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=DfHbZoY19DwRTGzEjYBsvdNGvKtm2OjekdZ58w1K3uXpZijaAw X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 28094 I just wanted to reassure you all about my precipitous and sudden drop off the face of the earth. Yesterday's blog post was my first appearance in the Lojban community for what feels like months. And yet it simply had to do with being swallowed up in organizing Penguicon, which is in three weeks, and changing employment from a salaried job in which I was paid to wait for other people to need me, to an hourly job in the customer tech service industry. To better manage my time during this busy period I had to abstain from going on the IRC channel. I'm no less interested in having deliberate conversations about specific topics, but I feel IRC was too undirected and haphazard for that in terms of time management. You can add me to your instant messengers with my Gmail address on Google Chat, or with nemorathwald on Yahoo, AIM and MSN. On Jabber I am matt_arnold@livejournal.com or mattarnold@idealso.com. Although my new career doesn't afford me quite as much time as during the past three years, I expect my level of involvement to at least increase after Penguicon (April 20-22). I continue to test and drill in vocabulary every day, and my interest in Lojban has not waned or altered in any way. I intend to get content up on rlnj.org (le ralju lojbo le nelci jikca), having been reminded by my annual domain renewal notice that I have let it sit unused for a year. It's probably unusual for the Lojban community to receive a notification like this one. Yet for a while I was such a consistent presence, and a cheerleader for more activity, that I feel that you deserved an explanation for my absence. I had a handle on life, but in January it broke. I am making excellent progress on the handle repair. I miss you all, and look forward to getting back into daily involvement. In the meantime I encourage you all to post to the Lojban blog and keep it active, even if you must set a weekly reminder alarm to do so. ki'esai -Eppcott To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.