Let's call this one "The Tale of The Missing Blog Post." Not very imaginative to be sure, but apt.
I have been back on the small Virginia horse farm I share with my better Dragon, Pamela, since Sept 18, which I think was Monday, or perhaps Tuesday? Yeah, Tuesday. Come to think of it, what the hell day is it today? When you been back and forth across the International Dateline, you may become – as they say in the Far East, or at least leaving it – disoriented. I flew out of Guam on 18th, landed in Honolulu on the 17h, then – after extending greetings from the future to the confused Wahines and assuring them that all was well – traveled on to Houston and my final airline destination of Washington, DC, on the 18th again.
So, while sitting through a 4-plus hour layover in Houston, I posted a blog entitled 'Adventures in Travel – Redux" or something like that. I can't say for sure. Because during the time I posted it and came back home to Virginia to check on the stats, it had disappeared. Nowhere to be found. As if it never existed.
It was also the first – and so help me, the last – time I had ever written a post directly into the MySpace blog box. I have no backup copy, so it is lost forever to the ether, unless the MySpace gods see fit to return it to me. So let this be a lesson to all of you:Do not trust your brilliant thoughts and insights to the technology at hand. Save your work, even if – like mine – it was probably better off just to let it die.
The ether is endless, and it is the best shot at immortality for the mediocre, even better than "American Idol" or Jerry Springer. Let's tread carefully out there.