November is a between month for the weather in Central Illinois. Today was clear and sunny with temperatures in the high 50’s – classic fall weather. Still before the month is out it is likely that there will be a taste of the winter to come. November seems to be a month that is low in drama, not like October where the distance between this world and the next is supposed to be at its closest, or like December with one of the biggest holidays of the year. Instead November has probably the least commercialized of holidays. One mostly about getting together and eating a lot. Which judging by the size of most people eating a lot is something that most of us do on most days anyway.
If you have been kind enough to read this far you may be starting to think that I don’t have much to say tonight. And you would be right. I did make a start of it and not much came out. My main purpose in posting is to start on a goal of posting once a day in the month of November. Thirty posts in thirty days. The thought did come to me today that it might help my writing to attempt to say something every day. Of course setting some arbitrary goal like this could just be a symptom of an obsessive personality. Whatever the cause I have made my first post of thirty.
While I don’t have a religion that forbids blogging on Sunday, my mind is not being helpful in the effort. Still I have imposed this discipline of posting every other day. So today is one of those days. So far I haven’t once ended up posting what I had intended to before I began to write. Once I had an idea of doing a comparison of Bush II and Bertie Wooster, however maybe the time for such thoughts is past. I do think that at one time the British had a good system in place to channel their mentally challenged rich into idle pleasures. In the US it seems many families feel that such children should make a show of running a business or being in politics. It is unfortunate that George Bush couldn’t have been the President of the Drones Club instead of the USA. I think instead of Bush and Wooster I posted about Crickets.
I have a few other drafts for posts. That is a handy thing about Live Writer. I don’t have to go and login and look at some web form when I want to post. Probably it hasn’t made me more creative, however it had made it easier to collect ideas.
So now due to lack of inspiration I will give a few links to blogs that I do read sometimes.
Resource Insights has what I think are some of the most intelligent posts on the issues facing us like declining resources and climate change.
Informed Comment I read this one a lot before the Iraq war started and then while it was turning into a disaster. Anyone that followed Cole’s writings during that time wouldn’t have been surprised by how things turned out.
Parsnip Is one of the greatest cats on Flickr. She doesn’t have a blog however there is a new picture most everyday.
There is a creek near where I live that on the map is called Scattering Fork. I imagine in reality that most people just call it “the ditch”, which is what people call creeks around here. Still I felt like working it into a post today. I like the idea that once this creek had a “loose and haphazard distribution of components”. I imagine that the Scattering Fork caused some aggravation to the early settlers as they worked to drain the land. Now the poor Scattering Fork is dug out deep and channelized so it can drain all the corn and bean fields. I haven’t heard of the Scattering Fork causing any trouble in my lifetime. And I would bet that I am one of the few who know what it’s real name is, or that it was a trouble-maker by some definitions when it was younger.
I am thinking now that I probably could find some kinda map thing for this blog and show you where the Scattering Fork is. Still I imagine that you probably have a Scattering Fork somewhere in your mind so look at that one instead.
I did change the look for my blog today. There are around 70 that I can chose from. And when I look there I usually see one that I think will suit me better than the one I am using. So far I have used three different ones for more than a few hours. Maybe sometime I will make my own, however now I am appreciating the work of others.
One last thing I for today is that if you are blogging you need to try Windows Live Writer. It is a word processor for blogs and it is free. With it you can connect to all the major blogging services and manage all your posts. Here is a good article on Windows Live Writer on Lifehacker. Windows Live Writer Tweaks, Tips, and Updates.
Well, so far I have made my goal of posting at least once every other day. And I just remembered one other topic I was thinking of earlier. That is health care reform. The latest proposal seems to be that we be forced to buy second-rate insurance from the major insurance companies. I guess that is the kind of socialism that the corporations can live with. I imagine there will be some protest about this. Hopefully it will do some good. All this gets me to thinking that maybe instead of protesting we should start taking up a collection to buy the Congress back from the corporate lobbyists.
