Obligatory Post

This is my obligatory daily post. I am bankrupt of ideas and too tired to write anything. During my move I actually broke the suspension of my car because I filled the trunk with too many books. That was after I had already moved most of my things, including more books. It is depressing with all that reading not to be able to post an interesting, original idea.

Well, even though there are no ideas here, whatever I do write will be spelled correctly because I am using Firefox 2 with the built in spell checker.

Maybe by tomorrow I will be able to post something of value.

Revising

I once heard from a teacher in High School that Horace recommended that once you have written something, put it a drawer. After a period of time, take it out and read it again. This helps you look at your writing with a fresh eye and notice the mistakes in composition, grammar and spelling.

Looking at my previous posts now after many months, I see many errors of all types. I started to make changes, but it is pointless to re-edit the form of what contains so little content. I will focus on putting new material up instead of revising old.

In order to pretend to be educated and show off the supposed knowledge I have I could throw in a reference to Lot's Wife or to be non-fundamentalist, Orpheus. I could have done that but I will not. The Horace reference was bad enough. I had to google Horace to make sure I had it right. When I did, I found out he said to not re-read your writing for NINE years. Everyone would probably be better off if I did not put my writing out there for nine more years but I have to do something.

Rumours of my death...

My initial attempt at a blog failed quite quickly. Like many blogs, or so I hear, it was started while the author was jobless. Since then I have found have found gainful employment. I have also moved. In the chaos that followed, I could not find the time to post. Neither could I find the books that I had been reviewing.

I am now back on the Internet and settled in enough that I can find time to write. My initial intentions for this blog were very ambitious. I still read intensively and extensively but translating that into something worth reading by others is harder than I thought. I could just write a list of books recently read and give then a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down", but who really cares about that? So, for a while at least, I will be posting something everyday, whether book related or not, just to get in the habit. Some of these mandatory posts will be experiments on a format for extracting something of value from all this compulsive reading I do. I expect to fail miserably, but most blogs do, I think.

I may post about my new location. I may post about politics or the news. I may post about random, non-book related items such as music, movies or TV. We'll see.

Well, this constitutes my first post A.M. (after the move). I hope that they improve.