Where'd September Go?                                         10/26/23
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I missed last month, and this month is almost over as well. Too busy I
guess. Or something like that. People ask me what I've been up to, and
I'm not entirely  sure what to tell them. It  happened just last night
with a friend. I guess I need  to be more mindful of keeping some sort
of mental list handy, for when the question comes up.

Of course,  I'm not  going to give  you a list  right here,  because I
still don't have  one. At present I  only have a few  minutes to write
anyway.

One  of  the  phlogs  I  enjoy reading  is  the  Free  Thinker[1].  He
most  recently said,  "Like everyone  I enjoy  human stories,  real or
imaginary, and have some fascination  with the intricacies of how other
people think." Just one of the reasons why I like reading his stuff. I
don't quite  get the nudist thing,  but perhaps he'll explain  it some
day... perhaps he already has and I need to look for the article.

I have  to assume he  reads here,  at least from  time to time,  as he
mentioned some  books that  I had  read. I  confess, I  consumed those
books very rapidly, wasting away large  segments of a couple work days
on them. This is not my usual mode, but as it had been some time since
I read any novels, it's just how I felt to approach them.

Apparently I'm still not satiated,  because I recently consumed George
MacDonald's "Annals  of a Quiet Neighborhood"  in just over a  day, as
well  as the  much shorter  "Agnes Grey",  which really  only takes  a
couple hours to go through at most, and which I've read many times.

With the Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood book, I was expecting fantasy,
not having bothered to read what  the book was about before picking it
up. But, it was  one of his religious books. I love  that man more and
more, the  more I read his  stuff. If you're Christian,  I'd recommend
it--or, if  you find people  interesting, Christian or  otherwise. The
author is  fantastic,  a point which  history and  the genre he helped  
create will testify to.

A friend  of mine recently  noted that he is  going to start  a gopher
server. Sometime to look forward to,  hopefully in the next few months
or so  (I believe that's  what he said). Also,  he noted that  the Red
Consensus is supposed  to offer anonymous posting,  yet mentions right
in the home page that it has logging turned on. Well, yes. The logging
is on because I'm  too lazy to turn it off. But, I  think I'll make an
effort. Then,  we'll see if anyone  is more interested in  using it or
not :) The clunky interface probably doesn't help things either.

Thank you, gopher space, for all you provide.


[1] gopher://aussies.space:70/1/~freet/phlog/