That which passes me by in the time stream
I am often surprised by the passage of time, on any scale. Most work days, I look up at the clock and think; “Damn, already? It was just getting interesting!” And the same is true with years; I don’t know how I got to the age I am. Where are my kids? What’s wrong with my muscles? Why do my hands and my knees hurt so much? Where did all these scars come from? I fully expect my last words to be; “Wait! I…”
It isn’t that I don’t own a watch, or a calendar, but somehow time just doesn’t register with me. It’s damned inconvenient and often embarrassing. I often have to be reminded that it is my birthday, to say nothing of someone else’s birthday or an anniversary. Holidays sneak up on me. I rely heavily on computers to remind me of stuff, because there’s no internal clock that says; “Time for that thing you meant to do.”
Two months ago, a couple of my favorite bloggers, ***Dave and Dana Hunter, named me for a Kreativ Blogger award. They said very nice things about me and I thought: “I’ll write something that will really express my appreciation.” I figured, you know, maybe “later that week”.
Two months ago. It’s a wonder I’m not asking; “Where the hell are all my friends?” People say or do nice things for me, and the moment passes while I am tongue-tied. Anyway, thank you, friends. I really appreciate it, and the truth is most of the time I’m trying to keep up with you. I don’t know how you write so well and so much.
Part of the KB thing is to name my 7 favorite bloggers. I can’t. My favorite bloggers inspire me, get me thinking. It’s easy to name someone and say; “One of my favorites” but drawing a line is agony. Please don’t ask me to do that.
Part of the Kreativ Blogger thing is to say what your 7 favorite authors are, that’s a lot easier because (to put it crudely) many of them are dead and the others are internationally famous. In no order, they are: Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Edward Tufte, Richard Dawkins, Larry Gonick, Arthur C. Clarke, and John Allen Paulos. But I read a lot; only Sagan and Asimov would be on every version of the list.
Think I’m going to start doing summary posts of my Google Shared Items like many other people do; nothing says “you rock” like linkage.
Like most of your writing you seemed to summarize my thoughts too. I feel the same way and sometimes I worry if people get pissed at me on the side but I think most of them know.
Congrats on the award man, you certainly deserve it!
Dear, you are quality. I am mere quantity. There is a qualitative difference! Sometimes, I think I should emulate you and write less but better!
Oh, and from one time-challenged person to another – whew! It’s good not to be alone!
Don’t feel too bad, both ***Dave and LH gave me the award and I somehow managed to either miss or forget that it happened.
I should probably acknowledge the kindness at the least.
If it’s any consolation, I’m in the same boat as Les. Haven’t so much as acknowledge the thing. Having to (once again) name my X favorite bloggers was the part that stumped me. How do I choose? My blog roll is short compared to a lot of folks, but there are still quite a few on there. Several of them have already gotten this award, too.
So I guess I’ll go on procrastinating.
(Sheepishly) What is a “summary post of Google shared items?”
I didn’t know sheep even used the Interweb. %-P
When I come across an interesting news item or blog post or whatever, I click on a toolbar item that says; “Note in Reader” which kicks it up to my Google Reader, along with whatever comment I type into the form. I guess it’s like a form of blogging. Many bloggers then select shared items and put them in a blog post.
Sounds easy but I just tried it here: Unblogged Bits For 06 December, and it was actually a lot of work. Maybe there’s some neato trick that outputs them into some HTML. I’m always the last to figure these things out.
Anyway, I often check other bloggers’ link lists, because they act as an interest filter. Find some cool stuff that way.