Friday, May 13, 2005
The Swamp.
It gets more and more difficult. Updating, that is, as more and more time elapses. Initially, it is just that you do not have the time to update, and you have a resonable number of topics lined up to blog about. Then, in a few days, when you do find sometime, you sit yourself down in front of a painfully slow dial-up connection, and as your computer struggles to find you that often stimulating, and at times depressing blank page you so love or dread as the case might be given your former or latter state of mind, you catch yourself wondering which of the topics to blog about first. Being the narcisisst that you are, you do not want to compress possible multitude of updates into one lame update, so choose you must.
From your vantage point in front of that addictive keyboard, you scan your mental horizon for an idea, a topic, to get started with. Then it strikes you. Your mind is a murky, and fatal swamp, where many an idea has perished after begging and pleading with you to save it for days. All this while, as the swamp was sucking those topics in, you were running helter skelter trying to get your gear in order, and by the time you did get it in order, those ideas were all but gone. Dejected and frustrated, you hurl abuses, and if you can find some, stones at the swamp, and look deperately in the dark to see if there is at least one lucky survivor you can redeem yourself with. Just when you are planning to give up, and walk away, you hear a sound, a cry for help, and you turn around excitedly and you look into the swamp with renewed vigor and rekindled hope. What do you know, there is someone to be saved, you strap your rescue gear on, and waddle into the swamp. There it is, a topic almost drowned, holding onto a low hanging branch for dear life. Your excitement wanes as you recognize your one redeeming chance to be that stubborn &$@*&@ who, you should have known, would not have let the murky swamp get to it, even if you had got late by another month or so. Time after time, as team after team of topics had lost battle after battle to the swamp, this one survivor of a topic had made it through until help had arrived. So much so, that even you begin to suspect if the bloody thing is in cohoots with the swamp itself. Why does the swamp excuse this pathetic excuse for a topic everytime - this aptly named "My excuse, lame or otherwise, for not having updated for so long" topic.
Should you initiate an inquiry into the background of this topic? Should you excuse it from service until its name has been cleared?
You tell me. ¶ 5/13/2005 04:57:00 PM
From your vantage point in front of that addictive keyboard, you scan your mental horizon for an idea, a topic, to get started with. Then it strikes you. Your mind is a murky, and fatal swamp, where many an idea has perished after begging and pleading with you to save it for days. All this while, as the swamp was sucking those topics in, you were running helter skelter trying to get your gear in order, and by the time you did get it in order, those ideas were all but gone. Dejected and frustrated, you hurl abuses, and if you can find some, stones at the swamp, and look deperately in the dark to see if there is at least one lucky survivor you can redeem yourself with. Just when you are planning to give up, and walk away, you hear a sound, a cry for help, and you turn around excitedly and you look into the swamp with renewed vigor and rekindled hope. What do you know, there is someone to be saved, you strap your rescue gear on, and waddle into the swamp. There it is, a topic almost drowned, holding onto a low hanging branch for dear life. Your excitement wanes as you recognize your one redeeming chance to be that stubborn &$@*&@ who, you should have known, would not have let the murky swamp get to it, even if you had got late by another month or so. Time after time, as team after team of topics had lost battle after battle to the swamp, this one survivor of a topic had made it through until help had arrived. So much so, that even you begin to suspect if the bloody thing is in cohoots with the swamp itself. Why does the swamp excuse this pathetic excuse for a topic everytime - this aptly named "My excuse, lame or otherwise, for not having updated for so long" topic.
Should you initiate an inquiry into the background of this topic? Should you excuse it from service until its name has been cleared?
You tell me. ¶ 5/13/2005 04:57:00 PM
