If you follow my Tumblr blog (which, let’s face it, you probably don’t), you might know of a minor annoyance I had relating to iTunes. It wasn’t such a big deal, but I think it came at the end of a bad day.

This experience ended with an email sent off to iTunes support. Here’s the reply I received.

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It's taken me a while to be able to tell people. To those who do know, thanks for your support. To those who don't, I'm sorry. It feels like I've been keeping a secret, but in reality it's just been too hard to tell people. I hope I've done it justice here.

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My dog was just given a preliminary diagnosis of liver cancer. We don’t know much more beyond that, besides that it’s pretty advanced—all throughout his liver.

My grandfather was recently in the hospital for two and a half months after a hip replacement, for rectal bleeding and diarrhea. He was out for a week, then went back in on or right before Thanksgiving.

It makes me realize what a lucky life I’ve had in this regard. The worst thing I can think of was my great-grandmother peacefully passing away, even though I’ve met her only once that I remember. Among friends, the worst thing is the death of the dad of a childhood friend I hadn’t seen in almost three years.

Still, it hurts.

That’s why I might be inactive here or on IMP, and might not be online for a while, or be curt with you when I am. And, though it seems callous, please don’t offer your consolations. Although I recognize that they’re meant with only the best intentions, I hate it when people say that to me—it’s a personal failing. As they say, it’s not you, it’s me.

Thanks.

Everyone, on their own blog, is entitled to at least one narcissistic post, all about them and how they do things. This is mine. It’s been so long in the making that this is now the third time I completely changed half of what’s in it and I need to retake all the screenshots—usually I get to the screenshotting phase and don’t make it beyond there. This time I’m starting with the words, to see if that makes any difference. I actually write so much that this is the first of three such posts, but the second may be a long way off.

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This is my first post in a while, and my first real post on the new site, and it’s not even an original one. Well, it’s original in that it’s mone, but it wasn’t written for this blog. I wrote it for IMP, and posted it there first. This is a cross-post, because I want everyone to know this stuff. The original post was, of course, titled “Blog, and Don’t Suck,” so you can guess where I got the title for this post from.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s how to Blog and Not Suck. Read More...

Tags: imp, Blogging, Grammar, headlines, Captions, writing