Happy 2006 from iNoodle.com! — Revisited II

Yesterday Two days ago, in this exact same space — which I'm now censoring editing — I perhaps foolishly suggested that iNoodle.com would resume normal operations beginning tomorrow, now today now yesterday, January 3.

As Rebecca and I were getting ready for bed last Monday night, just a few minutes after I wrote and published the post (a lengthy run-on, but important, parenthetical aside: both of which I was doing under severe duress given that our daughter, Luka, was, literally, standing over my shoulder and, illiterally not literally, champing at the bit, to gain access to our one shared internet-connected family computer — not a good idea, by the way, with two writers, one of whom doubles as a blogger, and a fourteen-year-old in the house) ... at this point you may want to reread the first part of this sentence, skipping both the parenthetical aside and this ellipsical elliptical interruption so as to follow my fuzzy logic ... we laughed together in considering what exactly "normal operations" would mean as applied to iNoodle.com, specifically, or our lives, generally. And you may find yourself in another part of the world not laughing.

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of an extremely small (crushed-raspberry-colored) British automobile, called Rio (or Puja).
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife.
And you may ask yourself — "Well ... How did I get here?"

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

[Note: If in no way you have ever found yourself in these circumstances or have never had this refrain flowing through your mind, click here. Otherwise, you may ignore this bracketed note.]

When I awoke this yesterday morning, this laughing matter became less laughable and more ridiculous as I got on with the day's activities which, frankly, involved my doing a hell of a lot of work on the computer, but with little to show for it on the blog. Yes, I alphabetized and added some new recommended links (see the right-hand column, below the About Me profile and the iNoodle.com updates subscription form ... by the way, have you subscribed?), and this revised list does include some pretty fine additions if I, myself, do say so (I do), but, well, er ah, there's, admittedly, no new post, really, unless we include this backtracking bit o' buffoonery.

So, to my dear iNoodle.com fans who came in droves (did they?) from all parts of the world (another lengthy aside: this irreverent blog is surely banned in China, or will be after this post, thanks to Google and various other freedom-loving, western, first-world technology companies who adamantly believe in the democratization of the internet, but who quite happily develop technologies for repressive regimes, like the US and UK?, which require a little customization, so to speak, for purposes of ah ... national security ... or, ah ... as part of, ah ... the war on terror ... or, ah ... to prevent spread democracy ... ) on this first-now-second-day-back-to-work-for-many to see what new iNoodles had been professionally cooked prepared as enlightening fare to start the new year off right, with a healthy portion of substantive sustenance, well ...

here's the upshot ...

I was, indeed, foolish (as noted as a possibility above, now confirmed) to suggest that there is anything like a "normal operation" at iNoodle.com, or, for that matter, in our lives ... Rebecca's and my lives, that is; you and yours no doubt have exceedingly regular normal operations.

Furthermore, I wasn't so lackadaisical during the holiday season to have had any reason, really, to suggest a resurgence of blogging activity in the new year.

I had been posting entries normally regularly up through December 22. On Christmas day, for crying out loud (okay, maybe that's not such a big deal for a humanist, but still ... ), I wrote and published what was originally a response to a comment which I had received on my December 22 blog entry re-post to Postform (but published originally on iNoodle.com; don't worry iNoodle fans, you come first) but which turned into a veritable, if not particularly noteworthy or substantive, short essay and which I, therefore/regardless, decided to post as a separate piece to iNoodle.com.

I missed the joys of Christmas dinner preparation, and hours of engaging adult conversation, at my in-laws' to write that? Amazingly, I published the post with just enough time to walk to their house and to arrive just as dinner was being served!

I also posted a Democracy Now! piece on December 29, in addition to this Happy 2006 post yesterday, now refined today yesterday, which in ten minutes will be tomorrow. An update, it is now tomorrow (thus many, but not all, of the strikethroughs contained herein). So, in essence, this post has taken me three days to perfect! My precious iNoodle fans, how can you possibly chide me (not a one has, yet, but I like to think it's possible ... ) for not producing more visible results today yesterday? I have poured my heart out to you.

And, as I said in yesterday's the day before yesterday's version of this same post, "I have also been otherwise occupied writing a submission for the Resurgence magazine essay contest." The essay question was: "Can Spiritual Values Combat Global Warming?" My no-doubt award-winning answer(s) was, in short, no, maybe or yes. Unfortunately for you, I am unable to post the essay to iNoodle.com as all submissions must be unpublished.

On the following note, repeated from yesterday the day before yesterday, I wish you all a Happy, Happy (if not particularly regular normal) 2006!

MY GOD! ... WHAT HAVE I DONE? In peace and fellowship,

Sean