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February 08, 2005

Notes from the Garden Journal: Gimme a Break

Gewiss es schon fast März ist, aber es ist wirklich wegen keinen Frülingsgefühlen … bin stattdessen beschäftig und schreibensermüdlich.

 

 

 

-Martin Kite-Powell

 

I am taking a short break from the blog. After some careful consideration I have committed myself to do so for a short while despite its addicting nature, although I will still be reading and responding to your comments and e-mails. For the next two weeks, time will be spent to oil the machine and air out my writing, which has become to me more stale and stifled as it has continued its daily march through current events, policies and ideas at home and abroad of late. I’ve begun to find myself focusing at greater intervals on merely writing in response to headlines as quickly as they come like a whelmed tail-wagger than giving breadth to more paramount ideas, which I would like much more to explore and convey, or depth to the events shaped by them.

 

Time it seems has become more of a precious resource in recent moments, so I look forward to taking the opportunity during the forthcoming 14 days to work on further refinements of this site’s visual amenities which include repairing the little wonderment that is the belovedly recalcitrant sidebar. Said as yet has not been fully civilized in the manner of other bloggers’ sidebars with regard to how it interacts with many browsers. Another technical project of which I am currently in the throes is recovering some lost data from a defunct hard drive. Among such items was a tale I had been working on for the better part of a year now. To wit, I was almost nearly at the point of completion when the drive failed. As much as I focus on the importance of routine data-backups for clients, I have not always so carefully followed this sacred rite as regularly in my case. Part of this is because most of the data on my network is kept redundant. In this case the project was copied to a different system where it was further edited and consequently some of the final refinements were lost.

 

Finally, a more personal allocation of this time will go into spending additional hours outdoors, preferably surrounded by horses and pleasant weather, as well as other areas of personal interest and enrichment. Peradventure it will even include a trip or two down to Galveston in order to descry whether the water still moves in the ocean – and whether my favorite spot for fried oysters is still doing a worthwhile job. I hope to be taking samples and conducting experiments.

 

 

So be thou merry; I recrudesce thence fortnightly.

 

…Well, if I can stay away that long ;-)

 

 

 

Posted by Martin at February 8, 2005 10:25 AM

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