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Date: 04 March 2007 22:13:03
That I too decided to give up blogs and the Ship for Lent and have fallen down somewhat. The first week went OK (I subscribe to the 'Sundays off' method of Lenten fasting), but then after a couple of texts received from my brother about ten days ago, I thought I'd better check a couple of blogs to see how people were faring. After that, of course, I wanted to see what Spike was saying about life at the moment, and to find out the end of birdie's story in its tantalising bi-daily instalments ....
Likewise, on the Ship I decided I'd allow myself All Saints, to pray for my shipmates, keep up to date with them and check if any meets were happening in down our way. But then of course I'd notice a corking thread in Hell that was ABOUT LENT! So of course I had to read that. Plus the hosts closed it at one point, so it might have gone by Sunday!
In some ways, though, I have still noticed the difference. I've not tried to keep up with everything, and I seem to have had fewer occasions when I find that the Net has eaten my evening. I remember (but am too embarrassed to look back) posting last time Spike became a driving instructor about how constructively I planned to use the early evenings home alone to be a good housewife. This time, I'm thinking I will be mostly using them to have a kip (so's I don't have to go to bed just after Spike gets home in order to survive my early shifts) and generally chilling out. I'm hoping I can learn to do this without chocolate fixes. I'm aiming, also, to 'talk' more, to actually engage with the online community rather than reading it to give myself an illusion that I'm interacting with people. Who knows where my post count could end up?