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POSTAL

I didn't post yesterday.

I wanted to, but there was no inspiration.

I had an item up about animals in the flood but Blogger put themselves on down time just as I was going to post it and it was lost.

That was enough to do me in.

This is amusing in light of 'the old days' when we would lose stuff on the computer, then the 'net, all the time.

The worst was when I was writing the Third Edition of our magnum opus and a worm started to crawl through the text.

I don't know where it came from but it was almost my undoing. The thing would literally 'crawl' line by line turning my well-turned prose into gibberish.

I don't know what we did about it. As I recall, I used one of my back up copies and started over. I think that somehow the text I was working on got corrupted or infected and off we went.

In the old days (what? fifteen years?) you didn't need a hacker to come in and screw with your machine. It was possible to somehow get shit started on your own and once it was going it was very hard to stop. If you traded copy around with other machines (discs) for people to edit, as we did, then it spread. I think that is where the virus analogy started. You do remember floppies don't you?

Anyway, that is all history. I digress.

True to form, if I get stalled in writing the blog, it is hard to get started up again.

A glitch in the system or a small amount of depression will always aid and abet the procrastination and lack of the inspiration necessary to get going.

Depression? Who me?

It couldn't be.

Bombarded daily with the news from NOLA wouldn't anyone be downed? That and feeling a little under the weather.

But I would never admit to such a thing personally. I am an up guy.

Mostly.

Have I started up again?

Looks like it.