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Cziltang wanders the trackless wastes in search of truth, beauty and personal enlightenment. He had tried to be self-sufficient, growing his own ideas, but they withered and died in the great intellectual drought that gripped the land in his youth. One day, as he gazed at the parched landscape around him, he realized that somewhere there must be ideas growing. Somewhere, rational discourse must still survive. Since that day, he has searched for a mythical land of fields and forests of living ideas. Now and again he finds a thought or two in the rubble of an occasional deserted outpost of civilization. Its a hard way to live and its not much of a life, but that's just how it is, out here in the Ratlands |
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Excuses
link It looks like I've gotten back to the sporadic posting pattern I was trying to avoid. Work is really "eating my lunch," so to speak. We just expanded to 140 clients and there are a significant number of problems (most anticipated, but some a complete surprise) that need solving. I just finished writing 2500 words on possible problem fixes for the work web site. The Head Rat has not been well, either and Rat, Jr. is going to school full time and just got a new job. I realize that these aren't really earth-shaking problems, but when you are as intellectually lazy as I tend to be, most nights I just don't feel like working on a thoughtful, well-constructed essay. (Or the drivel I usually post here, either.) After reading the thoughts on Lent over at the Smedley Log, I considered giving up "not posting" for Lent. But, that would require a concurrent commitment to give up interacting with the rest of the family (at whatever marginal quality level I can muster) or give up the mindless, electronic narcotic that is Television in all its dazzling 300 channel splendor. I seriously considered the "give up interacting with the family" option, but in the end, I guess I'm just going to have to be satisfied with intermittent posting, as the muse permits. by Cziltang Posted: Sunday, February 06 2005 10:44:25 PM |
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