November 1, 2008

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    The feedback log keeps me amused, entertained and enlightened. I like to go there and look at the referrer. Sometimes it's some other blog and sometimes it's google.com where people searched for something and ended up at an old post. Since I've been at this since December 2000 there are a lot of posts. That's even taking into consideration the time the site got hacked by some kid who took exception to my age and removed all the posts. Three and a half years worth of writing gone in the blink of an eye. It didn't bother me because I knew where it came from. I can always write more. That was May of 2004. He's nineteen now and probably no longer around xangadu. On to bigger and better things, no doubt.

    Anyway, I click on where google sent them and
    read the old post. The thing is I can't always remember writing it but I can
    tell where my head was at when I did. It's interesting to see what
    changes have happened in there since I wrote whatever it was. Today's searcher was looking for "enjoying the apathy". Google sent the Aussie to
    a really great piece on Apathy.     The comments were cool too. I read it. I liked it. I'd write it again now but a little differently because I'm a little freer than I was on Monday, December 06, 2004. How cool is that? I'll never know who the random reader was who was referred to the essay on apathy by Google.com but I'd like to thank her. Yeah, I think it's a female. I don't know why. It's just a sense I have about it. Probably because I think women are more highly evolved than men. Stronger and more powerful in about every way possible outside the physical realm. The physical isn't that impressive to me anymore. Don't get me wrong, I like having a body and all. Well, most of the time. It's that I don't rely on it so much anymore.

    Back on track. I know people don't have time today. Everybody is so busy with the important stuff that it's hard to find time to feed the mind something nourishing. If you want to try this. Scroll down to the last bit in the column on the left side of the page. Posting Calendar. Pick and date and click Go! Read it. It's like a Chinese Fortune Cookie. See what you get. See if it is something feeds you in some inner way. It always works for me. I'm telling you, this place is a gold mine and here we are with too many things to do to pick up a nugget here and there. Life is funny like that. Oh, let me know if you tried and it what you got. Come on, it could be fun. Well, if you've got the time.

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  • Darn it , James, I would have to go back to the original and I am lazy, as you know. I will tho and when I do, I will surely let your know about my "nuggets". Thank you for saying women have evolved faster than men. That was nice. the trouble is too many women want to ignore that fact and look helpless....ewwww! 

  • Wow - I made the decision to not read my feedback log because it kept me confused and agitated about who those people were and why were they reading my blog.  Now, I'm wondering what I've missed. 

  • mostly im finding web bots crawling on my blog, with the occassional searcher for stuff like the things that i do...

  • I got September 5, 2007 titled: Moving

    I enjoy both todays blog and the one on moving... yes, you have moved!

  • Well, no surprise, many find my blog because of all my hump day shots and references, tons actually. I also get alot of music and band links. I get a kick out of checking those things (footprints) out too. I sometimes go back a year or three or four just to see where I have come. I have been blogging here since January 01. Good times.

  • I do this on occasion. I am typically amused by what I see. Rarely, I cry. Enjoy your weekend James.

  • I read about Sharing. And Cynthia. That was such a beautiful post.

  • I am just glad you are back!  I rolled the dice and read about the loss and recovery of Scarlet!!

  • @flaminredhead - 

    I think it's very cool that you tried it and read something. Thanks for playing.

  • @blunt_force_mama - 

    Interesting. I know the one. I've been thinking about her the past two days so this is very synchronous. There are no accidents! Thanks for playing.

  • @mad_cow_diaries - 

    Of all the people to roll the dice and come up with one about animals . . . Our being really does attract our life. Kind of gave me a chill to remember it too. Thanks for playing, Cheryl.

  • This place is better than a Chinese fortune cookie, a CFC usually tells me that I will have a good day or something that is all a matter of my attitude. This place and clicking on random dates....is real words of wisdom that always challenge me to be a better being.

  • @alterEGGO - 

    Cool! I like it.

  • OK I took the challenge and read: What The Bleep Do We Know!? 

    Now do you remember that one? Do I have to give you the date? 2004 is all I'll say.   I saw the title and thought, oh no, election time.

  • I read Impressions from 04/13/05. (or 04?  I forget, lol.)... didn't read the comments, but I think I may have read that the first time around.    :)  

  • Thanks James...I did that...went back to the beginning of my blog...I've healed so much from the raw pain of losing my father...there is always growth isn't there...'Til the Next

  • I picked a whole week's worth. Oct 2-04 back to the date you wrote abut your fathers death...was on that same page. I remember that from the first reading.

  • February 3, 2005. Protected. Hmmm, I remember having the same pull of choice. I decided to keep "mostly open" in that it's much easier to block troublemakers than to assume most people mean mischief. Well, not always mischief--sometimes they just want to mess with you, and I'm not one who likes to play that game. Later on, posting just stopped being so enjoyable. I've met a few really lovely people on Xanga, like you, my friend.

    Hey, I've wrapped up on the Lite podcasts. I've moved over to the Phat ones. Can't manage every day, but they have been interesting, uplifting, and given me some new ideas to focus on. I got a lot out of the concept of the many I's. It also takes a lot of the struggle out of the wild thought journeys my mind takes me on when I spend so much time flying solo.

    Do you like to be emailed with resulting thoughts and ideas? Or is it best for me to keep them to myself? I don't want to post them.

  • @Ella_Mental - 

    Yeah, email works fine for me. I always want to hear from people who have something to say.

  • @spinner_mom - 

    You've been around the xang long enough to know how weird it can be. *smile* Thanks for playing.

  • @BLB - 

    I remember the movie. I remember writing about it. It all ends there though.

  • @warweasel - 

    Yo! Some people have good memories. Then there's me . . .

  • @moniet - 

    A true masochist.

  • No, I don't have time, but took the challenge anyway.  As a "returning reader", I decided to pick January 20, 2008, when I was actually spending way too much time on xanga (from work) to see the topic.  It was your take on Southerners,  "HEP".  I looked for my comment and found it quite amusing.  I must have been responding partially to a previous post.  I've changed too! 

    "I'm still a broken machine...but I know that I'm broken and in need of repair and I'm the only repairman.  I have to read a lot of manuals to be able to look in (through) the mirror and see how to repair it. When you are writing, and it sounds like an issue that I might be dealing with myself, I "listen", yes, "take it personally".    Sometimes I need to hear it just to remind me that I'm still broken. (Is that pessimistic? I don't think so.)  If looking at myself through someone's eyes that has never laid eyes on me, hurts my psychic...so be it.  Repair often hurts.   My mom used to say, "If the screw fits...."  Oh my goodness, I never thought I would repeat that line.  I needed a lot more repair in those days.:

  • No,

    @gandywhite - 

    No, it doesn't sound pessimistic to me. On the contrary It sounds very encouraging and optimistic to my ears. Our condition dictates we hear it over and over again because we are so full of balloon juice.

  • "Everybody is so busy with the important stuff that it's hard to find time to feed the mind something nourishing"

    Huh?

    I usually do not blog, and haven't for more reasons that than I don't have time for it, or that no one may read it, let alone comment on it.  When I do, I leave it open for a day or two or less and close it.  It makes more for a limited jog of the memory of what I was going through at the time I wrote it. 

    I too lost buches of my posts during an earlier Xangaland incarnation..  Tho not because some punk trashed them.   Xangaland had a glich, as I remember.  No big loss in my case.  As you say - we can recreate at will. 

    Have you ever noticed how important a comma is - where it's placed and all?

    Think I'll go have another beer.    My outlook express account is all messed up, and I cannot convince comcast that their outgoing mail server just doesn't work for me.  Time to change servers, but I just don't have the time.  Hope all is well, James. 

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