The last time I paddled on lake Wisconsin was interestingly enough, the 8th of October of last year. I wonder what it is about Autumn that always gets me thinking of paddling there. Probobly because I’ve become board of all the other little lakes in the area. October seems to always bring out the wanderlust in me. October launches a sense of re-evaluation.

I was Looking back to last October’s posts here on Quix. I realized last year here things were a bit more ‘edgy’. Remember back then we were just talking about Gordon Brown’s comments about Lolly sticks. I wrote about that in a post called “lynched“. Also in the kayak world we were just talking about the rumored new traditional style kayak being developed by Rockpool. Of course that’s way on the back burner these days. It was last October when we learned Lendal was being sold off to a corporation here in Wisconsin. Remember that crazy corporate babble by the CEO of Johnson!? I was also writing much more about non-kayak stuff such as my personal frustration toward the whole Orwellian way our governments keep thinking that all you have to do is say something to make it “truth”. I wrote about that in a post called, “word smithing“. Nothings changed there. In fact if anything, individuals are starting to take their example! Yeah, there was more attitude last October, in fact it was last October when I first took umberance to a comment on another blog where the reader thought “paddle bloggers” should stick to writing about paddling. (by the way, my spell check does not like the word umberance!) Later there was a fantastic jab taken at me for too much “belly button staring”. LOL! Oh. . . Joy!. . . Suddenly, Zap here we are a year later!

Looking back I realized that I’ve been writing almost daily posts for 3 years now! (I launched this blog in December of 2004) Back then I had 2 or 3 people who stopped by regularly. Good friends. These days it’s not all that unusual to push 2000 readers any given day. Sure, that gives me pause to think about the consequences of what I write and some days, even how I live my life. I’m certainly grateful for everyone who has come to join me on this little ride. Without you guys, I’d never have had the chance to have some of the experiences I’ve had in kayaking over the last couple years. Take this as another thank you!!

Tomorrow I’m off on my mini-adventure on Lake Wisconsin. I’ve actually got lots of fun kayak related things coming up in the future, articles, presentations and the like. I look forward to that. Here at Quix, I’m thinking I need to re-acquaint myself with that edgy mood. It was never my intent with this blog to produce nothing but bland pablum for general consumption. I’ve been second guessing myself to much recently. Laying back when I should be on the offensive. The problem of course is when we try too hard to please others, suit the crowd or not to offend, we tend to get trampled on, and as writers we just become bloody boring. It’s not real and it stops here!