How come that when some part of your household has a day off it becomes increasingly difficult for you to get out of bed yourself?
Archive for Introspection
Trying to get your thoughts in rank and file
This blogging business is actually harder than initially expected. I always rather thought of diaries as something you could do if you wanted but that it required no real skill or talent.
I have now found that thoughts and opinions along those lines will only give you a hard smack with the Mallet of Arrogance Slaying. It is tough, very tough actually and I’m not very good at it.
I think the first thing I have to learn is to categorize my thoughts so that I can become better at distinguishing the interesting from the glaring mundane. You have 24 hours every day, most of those hours are spent doing things that are not that interesting from a “writing them down” point of view.
Yesterday evening I sat staring at the ludicrous sub-title: “Thoughts and wisdom” and then it struck me: Write down your thoughts and your comments to your thoughts. It will become tedious sometimes of course but it it propably better to write SOMETHING instead of writing NOTHING.
Here’s to trying anyway, I’ll attempt to write at least three times every week (no need to set up idealistic and un-realistic goals that can only result in failure).
Went to the Lawyer today…
to have a nice game of Dungeons & Dragons. Good fun, lots of laughs and lots of sidetracking. It is now clear to me that the older you get the more easily sidetracked you get. Back when we were young (cue on violins) we would roleplay when we came together to roleplay, now we are too easily sidetracked by jobs, work, other experiences, food, and of course Monty Python.
But it was fun and we made level 3. So far so good.
Hmmm… Thought for the day: Is the tendency towards getting sidetracked an early hint of lurking dementia? I hope not.
Wisdom
There is an impressive amount of options associated with the maintenance of this blog site. Just started browsing through the parameters and setup options and I just know that at some point I will disable some key component that I can’t find again. I’m an IT professional (and has been for several years) but I’m also a notorious “I-wonder-how-this-works” kind of person. With this in mind I couldn’t help but laugh at my pompous tagline “Thoughts and wisdom….”
I think it should more clearly be labelled “Enter at own risk”.
Nostalgia
Just noticed the “Hello World” dummy entry.
That just tells you that the people behind this site has been around for at least as long as me. It would never fail, back when I was studying it was inevitable that at some point during your introduction to a new programming language you would make a page, control, button or whatever that produced the phrase “Hello World” once operated.
I will leave it for the time being.
Titles… or what’s in a name?
Blogging is new to me.
And since I’m a late arrival on this scene all my usual usernames have already been taken. So you start thinking about other names and you discard quite a few of the spontaneous ones as they are really bad (but might bring a smile to your face) and then you (mistakenly) start trying to be philosophical.
My last name is Green and this is an experiment (the blogging, not that my name is Green, I’m pretty sure that was deliberate) so I started thinking about that. Experiments in comics are always about bubbling vials and what have you. So I pictured this as my think-tank so to speak, where I can write whatever nonsense that I come up with.
The think tank (taken) was converted into the thought tank (taken) and later into GreenTank (not taken). Now that I look at the name I can see why it wasn’t taken, it sounds like the armored weaponry of a pissed-off eco-guerilla nutcase. But there it is and I’ll be damned if I change it now.
