OK, I'm back.

Thanks to my sisters' recent forays into the blogosphere (AmigoNet and ScreaminJohn's Blog), I have returned to this long dusty corner of the interweb, brushing away the moldy bits and bytes I long ago stored for no-one-in-particular's purpose (not even my own).

I reread the original (and only) entry. Man. This mockery of postmodern self-reflexivity just isn't going to cut it. I know (or knew) too many people who actually know what that means...or at least what it is supposed to mean. So if I am really going to try to do this (and this no more than an experiment after all) then I have to just play this one straight.

But beginning this process reminds me of something that Kurt Vonnegut talked about in an archived interview from Fresh Air. He talked about when he first began writing and mentioned (if I'm remembering this all correctly) that being a science major at college helped him because if he had been a literature major, he would have realised that writing something good is hard and would never have started. But since he was just a science geek, he didn't know what good writing was supposed to be like or that it was difficult, so he just wrote. So I'll just write, when and what I can, and never be as good as Vonnegut's left nostril and leave it at that. There's no point in trying to write something good when you know how good good can really be (and know that you're no good). Or something like that.

Plus, as my Dad and I were discussing last night, there is so much digital storage space out there in the world these days, that it doesn't matter if I'm taking up some chunk of memory for my navel-gazing ramblings. Actually, on that subject, Dad told a very interesting story about how when he was doing network support a while ago (back when they fought over kilobytes rather than tetrabytes or paeleoflops or whatever we're up to these days), he wanted to clean out some outdated and unnecessary files on the computer system in order to reduce the cost they were paying for data storage. But it turns out that it was cheaper to rent the data storage for years and years than for the geophysicists to spend their time going through and figuring out which files to keep and which to delete. Which just proves how much storage out there and how cheap it is. Either that or that geophysicists are overpaid. Or both.