I've been told

... that I haven't updated this thing recently. Which is true. There is a technical reason for this. That is that I don't have internet at my house right now, I only check email during the week when I'm at work, which means if I'm gonna do any writing, it has to be done at work. And I have just not gotten into the habit of writing at work.

The person who told me I hadn't written recently is someone that I had no idea was reading my blog, and he found it through the Monster Theatre website, through which there is a link. So that got me thinking, maybe it's not just my friends who read this thing, maybe there are other people who have enough interest in what I say to continue to check it. Which means - damn, I'd better have something worthwhile to say here.

I know that this thing is partly just a way for me to keep the people I love but never see posted on my life without having to send mass emails which are problematic (see my post on mass emails below). But it hasn't been a very in depth account of my life, and it also hasn't been serving the wider purpose for which it was intended, ie, to be a place where I could expound upon the things that are in my head and see if anyone else is interested. Since obviously more people are interested than I originally thought, I am forced to reconsider what I do with this space.

Blogs are so commonplace that we don't think of them as holding much power. And in the global sense, they probably don't. As one individual writing one post, I have as much significance as one bee pollinating one flower. But when you think of all the bees pollinating all the flowers all over the world, they make a huge impact. And then there's that one bees' individual relationship with that one flower. To that flower, he is important. To the people who take the time to read what I write, if they have read this far down, what I say must have some relevance.

This is what happens when I start freely expounding on the things in my head. If anyone actually has read this far down, you're a more patient person than I. I promise future postings will be much less self-concious, it's just that the conversation I had last night really got me thinking about what it is that I'm doing here. Just cause anyone with access to the internet can have a blog and tell the world what they think, doesn't mean that one person's blog can't have weight and power.