My hard drive is littered with the corpses of documents started and never finished. Of ideas, half-formed and then forgotten about, or deliberately discarded, or accidentally saved in the wrong folder and buried.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I just counted, and I have 2 finished scripts I should be editing, and five that have been started (3-50 pages) and should be finishing, and three book ideas, and a couple of shorts/sketches floating around. That’s more than enough to keep me going.

The missing, forgotten, ignored documents are by and large the beginnings of blogs that I’ve started when I’m not near internet service, which happens more than I expect. Between flying, shipyards with their spotty signal, cruise ships with their even spottier signal, and arenas with their locked signals, I probably spend a good three months a year right now out of range.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but for some reason the desire to blog always comes when I can’t actually post it. And generally, if I don’t write and post, it ends up never getting finished. I started one about linking pangolins to the current coronavirus fears in the hopes it’ll get people to stop eating the poor things, but internet was down so I never finished it. I was going to write a series about domiciles to follow with the last blog I actually posted, but again, lost signal so didn’t finish and lost the thread. And there’s a good chance this won’t get posted cos any minute I’m going to get called to a lifeboat drill and then we’ll sail away, and who knows how strong the signal will be for the next four days. Apparently there might be a storm.

Anyway, My pledge is to (surprise surprise) post more often again, regardless of work (which I’m going to find new and creative ways to talk about that do not void the NDRs I generally have to sign), and regardless of politics (which is all kinds of fucked up no matter which way you look at it). You lucky people, you.

Person. Lucky person, I know at this point there’s maybe only one bugger reading this.