Lost Words

I should have made a post a week or more ago. I wrote a long blog entry in which I poured my heart out. I was going through a difficult period and felt the time was right to say some things I had been promising to say for a long while. As usual, I wrote it off-line and stored it in an OpenOffice document until I got to a decent internet connection (I tried posting from home, but Blogger was having some issues, as usual). The problem is that, of late, I have become a little lazy and just saved the file on my desktop. Then... then I moved stuff around; copied, pasted and deleted and, before I knew I, I had lost that post. Literally lost: I don't know if I deleted it or copied it to some obscure place or what. Needless to say, I was less than impressed (with myself). If it was moved or deleted, I could have tried undeleting it from my ext3 filesystem, but I attempted that sojourn last year and still have nightmares about it. So, until further notice, that post is lost. If I find it, I'll happily put it up, but I am not going to rewrite it any time soon. For what its worth, my father is doing better, although he seems to be ill again.

So I was put off from posting for a while. I wanted to write about the so-called xenophobic attacks, but I've lost my mojo. Its bad – don't do it.

Finally after four months of waiting, my DSL has been set up. Starting Sunday (hopefully), I shall leave this primitive age of dial-up and graduate to ADSL. I'm counting the sleeps remaining :-)

Forcing myself to write isn't helping at the moment. Tomorrow night is another GeekDinner: perhaps I'll feel more chatty after that.