Lost - that's what I’ve been to blogging these last few days, and I'm here with a word of explanation. Much of the reason is just standard moving-house stuff. You take the order of your life, throw it up in the air, mix it up a little bit, put it all in boxes, then transport it in a truck and disgorge it at the other end - a mountain of boxes in every room. Where to begin? You can work from 6 am till midnight and you've only just begun to make a dent. Everything needs to go to its place and some of these places are obvious; but others of them aren't. Different house, differently designated rooms, so some things that used to belong 'there' don't any longer, or in this house there is no 'there'. Where is to replace the there of old? There are so many things to be assigned, carried, adjusted, taken back to the first room. Hey, where did I put the hammer? What happened to my mobes? And so on.
But quite apart from all that, Adèle and I arrived to one or two difficulties of a fairly major kind, which I won't go into except to say that they have required some resolve and a spirit of fortitude to get through. And then there is the fact that, despite my best efforts in advance of moving, I have a quality of internet access that would madden a laid-back slug, with no interest in blogging: occasional, on-and-off even when it happens, slow to the point of complete stasis on nine out of ten moves. It's enough to make a committed blogger weep.
And yet... committed as I have, for seven years, been in that department, I have not wept. Too much else to do, and I've been enjoying it. No, I'll rephrase that: I've been loving it. Not the inability to blog, but the activity of putting our home back together, in a new and different way, schlepping this way and that, upstairs and down, carrying, unpacking, shelving, arranging, rearranging. A happy coincidence, therefore, that unable to blog effectively, I had something else I really wanted to do, and do non-stop. I found another me, such as used once to exist before normblog. Today's Writer's Choice follows on Friday's normblog profile without a single post in between. Never happened before in the entire history of the world. How long my internet-access difficulties will continue I cannot say, but when they are resolved I should be able to resume something like normal service. We're nearly up and running here, but not quite. Once we are, I know my blogging enthusiasm will return together with the technical basis for putting it into effect - alevai!
