Straddling the Grid

Fair warning this is a post of less than sunny forecasts and many excuses

I once heard this great idea my friends wife had about writing a blog about being off the grid. We all found it genius aside from the fact that having a blog would be in direct contradiction to being off the grid, let alone having the electricity or phone connection to access it. Maybe a zine would be more authentic. Who knows, but in a few different circumstances it has come up that the proper name would be straddling the grid, which I believe I am currently doing.This is the main reason I haven´t posted anything for a while.

I have more pictures but I can´t find my connector cord and my camera wasn´t working for a while. Also the flikr folks want to charge me money to have more than 200 photos which I have past, so that´s currently up in the air.

So anyway being that I don´t have a computer and I moved to a different house without a computer... I don´t have one. There are internet cafes but they are expensive, so my time and budget for typing and editing of these things is on fumes.

I know that people have tried to leave comments and for some reason the program isn´t letting people sign up or cuts them off, etc. Sorry about that. Especially because without them it kind of defeats the conversation starting aspect of a blog.

Further I have deactivated my facebook account. I could go on a million different tangents about why I did this, but the number one reason I did so was in direct relation to my watching of the movie the Social Network. Everyone seems to be alive and functioning so I´ll take that as a sign that the world is still in balance.

More bad news. I will do my best to put up some pictures and post when I can, but the best way to hear from me is to email me at chriserickson@hotmail.com . If you do I promise you will get a response. I am very good about this now, as before I used to blow off emails (yes even from family and friends)yet I now have a new appreciation for the courtesy of doing so.

I have an email that I send once a month to the College Place Presbyterian Church and also send messages to those who have donated toward the completion of my development projects here. I encourage you to do so, and will be willing to talk with you about what the money is for, who it is helping, etc. any time. I don´t like the pay to play system much though so donation or not, if you want a monthly update, send me your email, and I´ll be in touch that way.

I´ll probably have to make atleast one more post because this one it too debbie downer to be my last.

Que le vaya bien,

Chris