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Gah! It has been too long since I blogged! And now the PODCASTS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED!

I apologise awfully, but my phone line has gone to the absolute fucking shithouse (a more apt description would not be possible). I am getting, at the worst of it, about 7KB a second; and at best about 20. To put that in perspective, my dial-up usually runs at 44Kbps, which is average page viewing kind of speed; a good Broadband connection gets 512Kbps. On my 7K connection it takes about 3 minutes to load about 6 frigging hyperlinked words. It’s killing me, but I shall persevere.

Just a quick note here; I was almost thinking of making a sticky post here for this sort of thing, but I usually integrate them quite well. But I just wanted to say that I am floored and flattered that there are four people who have read/are reading my blog.

Thank you timeandalittleblackcloud for coming and visiting; I was at a bit of a loss for contacting you since you went off the air on Blogger last year. Are you blogging once more? Or is there some other place where I may contact you or enjoy your musings? It was just unfortunate that you happened upon such a short trivial blog as my latest instalment (as opposed to post, I tend to blog in chunks) and that I haven’t blogged for such a time. I do hope that you return sometime soon.

Raef, it was an unexpected surprise finding a notification of comment email from yourself. I had a read over your profile and a quick browse over your blog. You seem to have had a very interesting life. I shall take a longer look when I have alternate internet access. I do wonder how you came upon my blog to begin with. Was it our common interest in the movie The Sphere? I have also recently discovered what all those tiresome comma separated hyperlinks in my profile page are for, quite entertaining to know how many people put the same interest in the same box. Or are you a Dresden Dolls fan perhaps? Did you recover some phrase of mine through a search engine? At any rate I am interested to know and would like to hear back from you.
I am also intrigued by the poem you left as a comment. Did you compose it yourself? I almost feel like I have heard it before, reminds me of something Old English. I like it.
I hope to hear from you again.

And last but not least, Idril. Fireworks on Bastille Day, how terribly exciting. Once again the unlikely parallel of our worlds through the podcast. Maybe my hard earned song is still art, and lord knows I did grow to like it after I took it out into a city and lived it. It’s just never been like that for me, I know I had it easy for a long time; and I’m definitely not going to give up because it got harder. Maybe the effort that I put into it, as long as it wasn’t forced and angry (which it wasn’t) makes it more art rather than less. It’s good to look at it that way anyway.
You did indeed see my knees; there is also a bit of my hand and hair in the shot. It’s the most of me that has ever been posted on the net.
The great open ended adventure of life is not of much comfort to me of late; but things have been moving along at a satisfactory pace.
Speaking of writing A LOT (is it really that staggering?) I recently stumbled upon Neil Gaiman’s extensive blog since I recognised the name when searching for the terms “fan fiction” and “Amanda Palmer”. I’m not exactly sure who he is, but he is a famous author of sorts and he wrote the blurb for Who Killed Amanda Palmer. He keeps a great blog. I love his tags. If I had the time I would do tags like that. Then I’d be witty and searchable.
Harp is awesome. I have always always wanted to play a harp. But you don’t exactly find them lying around…
Be well friend, and get some sleep.


Much love to you all.


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