a clarification

to those of you getting the new hard copy version of yyt what i meant by it being off line was that it was not also off line. i reckoned that the guardian, the globe and mail and jornal do brasil all have hard copies why not the blog - only in my usual way doing it backwards. there will still be entries available on the world wide web but they - like the papers will be versions of the hard copies and arrive when i am sure that those who receive the off line version have done so - since it is international i am guessing a weeks delay.

this always happens at this time of year when returning to the asylum, the blog isn’t as necessary, it was set up for write people from away when it was difficult to get hold of the usual writing tools for a pixture postcard. i always came back to it do to lack of time - read laziness - in corresponding with people. digital snap, downloaded with a passage and away i go. i would do it at midnight before heading to sleep.

listening to my evil twin and my pocket book, i have cut back on my postings but need things tangible and need to not do everything in front of the computer. the pressure of balancing everything meant that what i liked to do was losing out. i realised this when i stopped racing for the post and started ordering a lot of books so that there would be something there for me.

working away from the computer is restful, it is quiet time. being in the darkroom means i can only listen to the wireless or think, constantly searching the web for something to do. the deadline changed. it was no longer writing at night but making sure things were done before the post went out. while there is an anticipation time and space, writing it at midnight in newfoundland meant that maybe night owls on the east coast would read it but west coast blogaholics would most likely be reading it about the time that i wrote it. with the post there is the wait for the hint of acknowledgement. so with glitches as i am about three weeks behind on both the on-line and off-line versions - i am back to my preferable manner of communication.