Unplanned Absence

I hadn't really planned to take such a long "sabbatical" from this blog. Sometimes things just get in the way. I started a new job one week ago, and that, along with various other complications, all coming at the end of a somewhat trying holiday season contributed to a lack of energy, motivation, and gumption to just get on with it, and write some more. After the restaurant closed for the season on 4 January it's been a little chaotic. Creeler's ( http://www.skye-seafood-restaurant.co.uk/ ) was open 6 days a week right up until then, and kept me pretty busy. Just one day after it closed I was on to another job, one that swung around both day and evening shifts, and was fairly exhausting. It only lasted until a week ago, when I quit to start my new, new job, at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic College here on Skye ( http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/ ). It's just a housekeeping job, but it's a foot in the door, and as part of the job, while on the clock during my shifts there, I get to take classes designed to teach staff personnel the Gaelic language. If i can manage to learn a passing amount, which remains to be seen, I can certainly then try to get other jobs there. Anyway, it's a living, and it's close to home, being just 6 miles down the road from our village.

Now all that is a pretty poor excuse for my long absence from this page, especially after only just launching it. With all that has transpired in the world over the last few weeks there should be plenty of grist for the mill of an old blow-hard like myself. The economy is still seeemingly going down the tubes, though hopefully it is beginning the long painful process of renewal. There was a new President sworn into office in the U.S., which should provide plenty to write about as well. And those are just two among the very many things happening, and don't even begin to address news from Skye, and all the other areas i hope to write about on this page.

So anyway, excuse my absence, thanks for still checking me out, and I hope to be writing more regularly from here on out. More from me soon.