Its interesting how things tend to go. I’ve been blogging a bit about some changes that would benefit the FSG and LSB at a positive level. I think that everything needs to evolve, change, modify itself. Perhaps its only the anthropologist in me; but I’ve watched a few different business interests not evolve and things suddenly are called “legacy”. Its as if we can take a thing which cannot turn itself around and just call it another thing which carries a certain connotation. If something is “legacy” it may not work with modern things. I definitely do not think the FSG or LSB are legacy; but I do think there are spaces they need to change within. They need to become more and different. I’m working on a wiki site now trying to define what I mean. The site is not ready but what I think it points at is this idea I have about what has to happen. There are positive forces engaged with the LSB and FSG. But these forces need to see that there needs to be a complementary alignment with other groups.
On to other bits and bytes… Since about 3 weeks ago or so, I’ve kinda moved to the ranks of the unemployed for the most part. I do have a client left out there that is paying me for a bit of work on something I did before for them and I may have a smallish vpn client/contract. This has left me with the requisite consideration time of what I want to do. Its interesting that I loved my job so much before that I never dwelt on things like money, time, or the other myriad issues about work. Now, I find myself with “time”. Time is an amazing thing when you have a bit of it. You can dwell on things, blog things, think things, wonder things. I had given a bit of thought about the relative worth of weblogging overall. Perhaps I see this place I could get to where I would not derive a benefit from it and perhaps instead some of my stuff is more “static” in nature. In other words would a wiki or other type of CMS work? I have a mediawiki install going now and I enjoy it immensely. Its like a blank chalkboard I can write on for myself. Having a webserver is definitely empowering these days 
. But the main thing I enjoy about blogging is the temporal orientation. Every thought is caught in a day and its captured there and perhaps I add/edit to it later; but its encapsulated in a record of a day for me. So the thoughts and ruminations, concerns and elaborations, discussions and explications all occur through a day. If I lost that side of things, I think I would not be able to capture things and have them separated by the exact period we in the west seem to invest with so much control of things. In truth, there is no concern about the reality that time and space enforce on us. Time and space are not truly real. We invented tme to explain the “why’s” about things we could not grok. We had to divide it up into segments. Space is far beyond and below; out and down. Its too much. My son told me once, “dad, you know the thing about space? Its big”. Sure is. Big and impressive but reality never really intrudes there because we invent our own realities to deal with the ignorance we have about time and space and to constrain them.
So, for me, blogging incorporates our puny controls but it offers an outlet of sorts for me to build a case, think, wonder, plan, and even rhyme. I also had thought a lot about past existances because one of my daughter’s teachers had asked what it was like to do “archeology”. The “do” part always interests me. Its an active thing. Its not just being one; its doing the thing in an active sense.
All in all, today was one of those contemplative days but in the morning I was kinda rushed around trying to get something done for a friend and a company I enjoy. I enjoy still helping them because I like the people there. I won’t like to them but they know who they are . So, I’ve also reached a happy spot with blogging. I’ve figured out I really don’t need a crushing readership or concerns whether someone subscribes or not. Its the mere act of the personal collaboration that gets me going. If you happen to read any of this, ask yourself the same question. If you do a thing, what’s the value? Often the answer is more, less, and sideways from the question.
