Sunday, July 27, 2003
For twenty-five hours each week, I and my family leave this world for a taste of the next. For those of you unfamiliar with this notion, I refer to the Jewish Sabbath. I relish these breaks from the mundane, and would never want to trade them for anything... except for having every day be like that.
As with all forms of recreation (temporal or spiritual), there is always a bit of trauma on re-entry. The more intense the break, the greater the stress when you come back to the day-to-day. I remember when we first became observant about four years ago. I actually had an uptick in the number of colds I experienced - something I attribute to the change in lifestyle we had undergone. Not terribly scientific, but not entirely outlandish, either.
(I'll talk more about this transition as time goes by. It is a source of endless fascination. To me, anyway.)
Part of the point of my mentioning this is that you'll never see a blog posted here (by me) during the Sabbath (that's anywhere from 1.25 hours to 18 minutes before sundown on Friday, all the way to 42 minutes after sunset on Saturday). If you do, it is NOT ME and you are to give it no weight or credence. I encourage all bloggers to pick a similar period when they will not post - just to give the brain a rest, or to honor a higher ideal, or to let a particularly vexing problem work its way back to its true size. I think the Internet in general, and the blogging universe in particular would benefit from such a strategy.
Fat chance.
Anybody else have the unremitting urge to write 'Blogging instead of just Blogging (since it's short for Webblogging)?
As with all forms of recreation (temporal or spiritual), there is always a bit of trauma on re-entry. The more intense the break, the greater the stress when you come back to the day-to-day. I remember when we first became observant about four years ago. I actually had an uptick in the number of colds I experienced - something I attribute to the change in lifestyle we had undergone. Not terribly scientific, but not entirely outlandish, either.
(I'll talk more about this transition as time goes by. It is a source of endless fascination. To me, anyway.)
Part of the point of my mentioning this is that you'll never see a blog posted here (by me) during the Sabbath (that's anywhere from 1.25 hours to 18 minutes before sundown on Friday, all the way to 42 minutes after sunset on Saturday). If you do, it is NOT ME and you are to give it no weight or credence. I encourage all bloggers to pick a similar period when they will not post - just to give the brain a rest, or to honor a higher ideal, or to let a particularly vexing problem work its way back to its true size. I think the Internet in general, and the blogging universe in particular would benefit from such a strategy.
Fat chance.
Anybody else have the unremitting urge to write 'Blogging instead of just Blogging (since it's short for Webblogging)?
Friday, July 25, 2003
Well, my friends, another blog. Yippee. Yippee Skippee.
Thank you for stopping by (or stopping bi, or stopping, bye, or stop, ping, bye).
Herein I will give vent to my spleen, talk about issues of my own choosing, and point out the folly, foibles, and frailties of others (in a kind, constructive way, of course).
Many years ago, the Internet gave everyone the opportunity to be a published author. Blogging has brought that opportunity even more fully to the masses. It has always been my opinion that this may not be a good thing. I am also probably an excellent argument on behalf of that opinion. Let's see as time goes by, shall we?
Thank you for stopping by (or stopping bi, or stopping, bye, or stop, ping, bye).
Herein I will give vent to my spleen, talk about issues of my own choosing, and point out the folly, foibles, and frailties of others (in a kind, constructive way, of course).
Many years ago, the Internet gave everyone the opportunity to be a published author. Blogging has brought that opportunity even more fully to the masses. It has always been my opinion that this may not be a good thing. I am also probably an excellent argument on behalf of that opinion. Let's see as time goes by, shall we?
