For the regularly readers, friends, groupies, and anyone else seeing this allow me the chance to elaborate on the reasons for much absence. I'm still wondering if it really
was Osama been Hidin' who was the last requestor of my whereabouts.
A little over a month ago I had started winding down from any involvement from 'monetizing'. There were a few things going on with a blitz trying to get some capital up for some 'thing' in my mind I wanted to do with 'things'.
In the process I connected with a number of other people involved with outreach to people experiencing homelessness. Kids, families, single people, and even a young teenager who elaborated how she dealt with cross dressers being identified wrongly as deviate sex predators.
Then there was a 'dawn til dark' outreach I was personally involved with, as well as some of it's planning prior. Literally hundreds of people in the street at one time, as well as some up close and personal conversations at some local restaurants, down time spent on holy ground role playing a citizen watching the mafia try to kill a supercop being pursued by a nurse trying to save his butt.
Then there was the legal question of what is and isn't legal to do according to local codes or ordinances. From City Hall through Jacksonville Sheriff's Office then outwards to two seperate non profit agencies, each one makes the claim what they're saying as interpretation of local law as 'the correct thing', yet none of them have been able to give myself or confidential sources the specific ordinance they're choosing to 'educate' people about.
It's very confusing. It's more confusing when each place you go a different person's got their own agenda behind their version. Laws on the books are a matter of a person with some form of technical writing proficiency 'doing them up' and people in authority making votes whether they are passed as ordinances or codes. If you can hack and understand algebra enough to program in Basic, you can produce pseudocode from the original source and from there produce something in English that translates to people what exactly is 'the way things are' without loss of integrity.
Rather than waste my time on the issue further, I'm simply giving out the number to Legal Aid.
Then there was the nomination last week by one of my mentors to the Board of Directors of the Emergency Services and Homeless Coalition of Jacksonville, Inc. (ESHC). There was the review of the 44 page packet I was sent in email, there are the questions I asked later, and there was the understanding I made clear that I'd basically act accordingly.
So far there's been some communication with their Executive Director. They were supposed to vote last Thursday, and the results to be given a few days later. No word yet, I know one person's name on the Board due to the email that passed, and was updated last week that things were continuing through phone conversations.
I'd originally thought I'd have to back off heavily from my online activities, since there's some specific bylaws and article statements for the Directors. The thing is, if I did that I'd be selling out...and that's not something I can do.
Originally I went through the 'elation' phase after getting the news. Over the last week or so, I've been asking some direct questions over roles and relationships that I wasn't aware of but need to know when becoming involved in 'the circles' I'm walking in to. The ironic thing is whether the vote is 'Yae' or 'Nae', with having gotten to the point of having to ask these questions I'll be involved in those circles, since this is the path that was being taken prior to the nomination.
And at this point, I'm babbling. The funny thing is these things don't even touch the deeper and heavier matters that can't be related here that I've been experiencing in the last week. It's complicated, it's impacted the entire family, and I keep the faith by remembering the sun comes up in the morning.
If it doesn't, I'll swim the Atlantic and kick it's arse.
Thanks for the patience. Oh, and one last thing! Please...please remember...
Only YOU...can help keep proper cell reception!
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Be well, and may your God go with you.
Fuelmyblog's got a comment party thread going on, first we've had. First time too we've seen graffiti like this.
Stylus replacement 5/25/07 6:09 am
Nay, I say, NAY! I will purchase my luggage and trod down yonder road, on to a better place and time.
From daylight until the sun went down, police worked this accident scene to it's close. No identity was found of the victim, nor of any blood on the asphalt or vehicle in question when I personally inspected both during and after the police cleared the area after 6:10pm.
Another entrant into the foray of addiction treatment is Sunset Malibu.
Since the word got out that all those people who 'donated' laptops through the "One Laptop Per Child" program won't be getting 'their' laptops in time for the holidays, there's been some interesting questions that've come up in varying places.