Resurrection

I have declared blog bankruptcy.

That is when I have so much info to put on the blog that I delay writing a post, which then adds to the accumulation of things I should post, until it snowballs out of control.  And then to simplify the process, I just ignore two years of activity and start fresh:  declare blog bankruptcy; all blog debts are cleared.

I have done this with voice mails before.  When I need to be productive, I shut my mobile phone off and take the land line off the cradle.  It is a bit unconventional in a world of instant communication.  Some of my clients would be very irritated, but it is usually in an effort to keep my important clients happy.

Long uninterrupted spans of time are needed for important work to get done.  Anyone who tells you they can multi-task is telling you a lie.  Or they are talking about modes of work that are so simple that they were automated as part of the industrial revolution.

So on one or two occasions, I have had so many voice mails that I just deleted them all.  The pangs of guilt only last a few days.  When you realize that you have shaken the yoke of phone tyranny, it actually becomes empowering.

Cast your mind back to before we all had voice mail?  Conversations went something like this:

Person A:  I tried to call you the other day.
Person B: Really?
Person A: Yes.  I called a few times and there was no answer.
Person B:  Oh yeah, I was away for the weekend.  What did you want to talk about?
Person A:  You know?  I can't even remember any more.  It must not have been important.

And that was it.  If this happened often, you were known as one of those people who is never home and were difficult to get in touch with.

I am re-thinking how I use this mode of communication.  It used to be discreet stories that told you what we were doing.  Often revolving around some tooth ache inducing sweet thing one of our children did.  It may still be that.  But it will more or less be vignettes of things that I want to remember.  and if you and I were in the kitchen drinking coffee, I would probably have brought these things up as a topic of conversation.

Also, I might just end a post abruptly because I am done talking about a particular thing.

like this.

Currently listening to: Thelonious Monk - Riverside Recordings, Volume 8.