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Is This Thing On?

Kelley — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:54:40 +0000

Ohai! I bet you’d thought I forgot I had a blog.

Long story. Mostly involving life and things happening and the like. Here’s a quick synopsis:

I am incandescently happy with Stego. <3
I’m also still accepting applications for other people to also make me incandescently happy. (I love poly!) There’s a strong new candidate: he’s doing well so far. We’ll see. I don’t know what it is yet. But the fact that it makes me happy is totally of the good.
I am possibly relocating to Florida. I need a job first… Which is proving difficult in this economic climate. So… you know anyone who wants to hire an operations manager with strong experience in communications and new media platforms? …Are you sure? Keep thinking. Get back to me.
I am in the process of re-evaluating all of my private label online ventures. The Examiner gig ended up being not necessarily what I was looking for. I’m not saying I won’t post there again, but I feel like there’s a better way to approach it. I’m sorting in my head.
DRAGON*CON IS THIS WEEKEND! I’m a bit excited. In fact, I will be circling back with my tentative schedule shortly so if you’re going you can find me. If you want. But why wouldn’t you? I’m awesome.

So… yeah. Life is good. I’ve been learning a lot about myself and about emotions and about being part of something bigger than yourself.

But more on that later. XOXO!

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A Brave New World

Kelley — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:10:52 +0000

When I moved this blog over to WordPress, I always did so with the interest of this being more of a personal blog about what’s going on with me. (I live under the illusion that you all want to know this.) What I don’t want to happen is for this blog to become kind of a dumping ground for anything I want to publish.

Obviously not everyone is an atheist, and probably doesn’t want to hear me going on about the Pope. (Although I should warn you… I’m working on a post about the Pope.) Not everyone wants to hear about polyamory. Or skepticism. Or random geekery. Etcetera. It creates problems for me because people come here thinking they’re going to see one thing and end up seeing something else.

So I have several projects lined up… My domain count is now up to seven. Seven! I’ve got a skeptical journalism project in the queue, a national secular news wire, a relaunch of my photography site… I’ll keep you updated as different things come to pass.

I can’t say that this means that I won’t talk about any of these things here. Obviously I’m very passionate about them because they are my life. But what I can say is that I will be talking about them in the context of my life. Not going all soapboxy on you.

I’m very excited to announce the first of these projects is getting off the ground this week. I’ve been accepted as a polyamory columnist for the Atlanta Examiner. Woohoo! Maybe they accept any pretty face that comes along, but I’m psyched regardless. It’s my first step towards freelancing freedom!

So you can now find me on the Examiner site, or – even easier – at http://www.polytastic.com. I get paid on traffic, so be a dear and give me some clicks. Add the feed to your RSS reader while your there. I also encourage you to follow my new account on Twitter, @polytastic.

Thank you all for your continued love and support!

XOXO

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May You Live In Interesting Times… (A Precursor)

Kelley — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:08:36 +0000

I spent last Saturday at Frolicon here in Atlanta. I realize that was so last week, but it’s actually taken me a while to (a) process the experience, and (b) carve out time to find an appropriate way to write about it.

Frolicon is an adult science fiction convention held annually on Easter weekend. Maybe it was my one-day limitation, but I saw very little science fiction… Lots of adult, though. (In science fiction’s defense, I did attend a Torchwood panel on the sexuality of the lovely Captain Jack Harkness.) So, it would stand to reason, this post is going to deal with sex. And me. Together. Once you read it, I can’t take it back for you.

I’ve made a decision to password-protect the post. It’s not really overly obscene, but it is something I would prefer not float around my office.

If you’re interested in reading the post, email me or DM me on Twitter and I will gladly share the password with you.

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Update: Removed Intense Debate From Comment Section

Kelley — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:10:12 +0000

Good morning!

I got a couple emails yesterday about people having trouble leaving comments. Additionally, I could see that there were approved comments that weren’t showing. I’m not sure where the disconnect was, but I have disabled Intense Debate (for now, at least) and everything seems to be working well again.

Please note that comments on Watching the Wheels are moderated. If you have never commented here before, I will have to approve your comment before it shows up. I try to do this fairly quickly to encourage discussion and discourse. Not that my blog typically has much, but I do encourage it.

Please feel free to try to tell me that I killed the Easter bunny again.

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Nearly There!

Kelley — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:47:48 +0000

Whew! This has been an adventure. I think I’m just about ready to start posting again, folks. All that’s left is the blog roll, which is daunting at best as I read entirely too many blogs.

That said, I might or might not get lazy mid-way through the list. So if you’re interested in being listed, feel free to leave a comment with your blog site. If it looks like something my readership might be into, I will happily include a link to you. I must include that filter, not because I don’t like you or your blog but because I simply to make sure I am referencing relevant content for my target audience.

Anyways, otherwise we should be just about done. Take a look around and let me know what you think!

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We’re Becoming!

Kelley — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:32:22 +0000

As you can see, the WordPress install is done, DNS issues are resolved, and the world will soon be full of sparkly unicorns again.

Well, maybe not that last bit.

Your continued patience during my renovation is appreciated! XOXO

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