Woken by a phone call regarding the 30th Birthday Event's catering. Ugh. Went to bed at 4:53am, continuing this 5am bedtime spate for 4th or 5th night now. Gotta cancel my meeting with PWCL Aaron tomorrow -- there's no way I'm realistically going to make it to a 7:30am meeting like this.
Just double-checked my use of "spate" in the old Random House Unabridged that I keep next to my writing spot... Would someone start me off with recommendations for some basic online writing resources? I've been impressed lately to discover that going to an online dictionary outpaces the paper dictionary every time (at least if you've got DSL). I seem to recall that there are online encyclopedias, too.
Time put in on blogging yesterday: 2:20 hr.
Yesterday's word of the day... Profligacy: 1. shameless dissoluteness. 2. reckless extravagance. 3. great abundance. [discovered while reading Zelazny]
G was trying to recall what the thread of conversation was that we put off til later, due to fatigue. Think it was perhaps about bulletin board management technology.
YL: Follow up on yesterday's list of questions. I think the phrasing I was looking for is: "How do I...?" or "Should my group...?" or "As an adult, how can I...?". In order to generate a usable tool, the question has to interpose an "I" -- promising to address how you make personal choices.
Two thoughts I'm still rolling around in my mind after last night's conversation. One: The notion that one discovers one's "voice" by writing, and that you can lose that sense of yourself if you don't write; thus there is value in updating your blog daily -- even if just with a grocery list -- because it keeps you in the practice. Two: Blogging encourages the practice of observation; throughout the day you pay attention to life differently, collecting items for discussion.
Also on my mind, several more quotes from Rob's blog, which were on his profile page:
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
--Albert Camus
"...the fact is that a clever man so seldom needs to think he gets out of the habit."
--Helen DeWitt,
The Last Samurai
"Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid."
--Christopher Hampton,
Dangerous Liaisons
...Particularly that first one. Relevant to this ongoing thread about the tendencies inherent in blogging, what its function can be.
The "What am I forgetting?" item from yesterday: to change all my clocks for "fall back", obviously. I realized Saturday night that the time change was happening (when I caught the discrepancy between my computer and bedside clocks) -- just haven't gotten around to making the house-wide shift yet.
And just how many clocks does Sven have? Four kitchen timer / clock combos. Three alarm clocks. The microwave, stove, VCR, thermostat. Two computers. The car radio. My wrist watch. ...Fifteen.
And this is why my house is sometimes nicknamed "the house of beeps". ;-)
Just double-checked my use of "spate" in the old Random House Unabridged that I keep next to my writing spot... Would someone start me off with recommendations for some basic online writing resources? I've been impressed lately to discover that going to an online dictionary outpaces the paper dictionary every time (at least if you've got DSL). I seem to recall that there are online encyclopedias, too.
Time put in on blogging yesterday: 2:20 hr.
Yesterday's word of the day... Profligacy: 1. shameless dissoluteness. 2. reckless extravagance. 3. great abundance. [discovered while reading Zelazny]
G was trying to recall what the thread of conversation was that we put off til later, due to fatigue. Think it was perhaps about bulletin board management technology.
YL: Follow up on yesterday's list of questions. I think the phrasing I was looking for is: "How do I...?" or "Should my group...?" or "As an adult, how can I...?". In order to generate a usable tool, the question has to interpose an "I" -- promising to address how you make personal choices.
Two thoughts I'm still rolling around in my mind after last night's conversation. One: The notion that one discovers one's "voice" by writing, and that you can lose that sense of yourself if you don't write; thus there is value in updating your blog daily -- even if just with a grocery list -- because it keeps you in the practice. Two: Blogging encourages the practice of observation; throughout the day you pay attention to life differently, collecting items for discussion.
Also on my mind, several more quotes from Rob's blog, which were on his profile page:
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
--Albert Camus
"...the fact is that a clever man so seldom needs to think he gets out of the habit."
--Helen DeWitt,
The Last Samurai
"Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid."
--Christopher Hampton,
Dangerous Liaisons
...Particularly that first one. Relevant to this ongoing thread about the tendencies inherent in blogging, what its function can be.
The "What am I forgetting?" item from yesterday: to change all my clocks for "fall back", obviously. I realized Saturday night that the time change was happening (when I caught the discrepancy between my computer and bedside clocks) -- just haven't gotten around to making the house-wide shift yet.
And just how many clocks does Sven have? Four kitchen timer / clock combos. Three alarm clocks. The microwave, stove, VCR, thermostat. Two computers. The car radio. My wrist watch. ...Fifteen.
And this is why my house is sometimes nicknamed "the house of beeps". ;-)
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