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27 August 2004. After Charley knocked me off-line, I considered keeping a notebook of daily entries to my blog that I would post once I got access to the blog again. I couldn't do it. I didn't even rough out a potential entry in my head the first few days I was disconnected. Then, when I had access to the Internet, I just posted hurricane news.
There are no doubt several reasons for this, but a major one, which I thought of much later, after reflecting on a letter of Geof Huth's about how to handle such a situation (he would go the notebook route, he thinks), is that my blog is so much a truly computricentric blog. Or should that be "cybercentric?" Not only that, but I seem to have become a keypuncher almost exclusively: I hardly ever write anything, anymore. So I felt semi-lost without my computer.
Since many of my entries are about my adventures in Paint Shop, and I couldn't visit Paint Shop for almost two weeks, I had substantially less to write about, too. Of course, simple out-of-itness, due to the hurricane and all the uncertainties and clean-up chores that resulted from it, was a factor. But I'm sure that if I had lost my link to the Internet, I would have kept up with my blog.
I find it curious, by the way, that--as an old fart--I'm so unold-fashionedly attached to my computer--word-processing, stupid games (like FreeCell and Civilization), Paint Shop, and the Internet. . . . I'm not sure whether that indicates adaptability or shallowness. No, I don't care which it is.
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