Alas! A storm wiped
the database last night, powering down the entire core and striking the
mainframe cold. That is to say, the power went off last night and now nothing
can seem to revive it. It feels very wrong to be writing a blog post without
internet streaming along the walls of this virtual space like it should be.
The funny thing about
this blog is that I only come to it when I should be writing elsewhere. When I don’t have an incoming data connection, my cyborg side pulls a
Hamlet muscle and my human instinct kicks in. I suppose “they” are right when
it is said that the best way to get writing done is to unplug.
Sure, words are all
fine and good when your internet is inaccessible and a random three-hour power
failure occurs in the middle of the day (gotta love that urban living, folks).
The real challenge is when that temptation is reachable. Many time I work a long shift and all I want to do is vegetate in front of Youtube for hours afterward. But that isn't always the case. I try to switch wifi
off on occasion, usually only lasting ten minutes before I want to check my
email or bank account or something. It really makes me question my motivation
in life when all I can think about is finishing a scene so I can view Facebook
notifications and make sure no one shared
a “What Disney Princess are You?” quiz, because those are so much more
important than art and accomplishment and a complete piece of work, right? Ugh,
talk about twisted priorities.
In the Christian
church, we talk about learning from the struggles. Most of the time it sounds
like a loaded excuse to take a mistake you made and put it off on God. But then
there are the times when I get caught up in something that isn’t fruitful, and
when the opportunity to continue down that road ends but I’m still tangled in
the temptation of it, my eyes look right into a mirror. Inconvenience is one of
the best teachers out there, as far as I’m concerned.
Does that mean the
solution for me is to take the difficult path?
I have no idea why
blogging brings out the snark in me. Kind of like that a bit. If I got nothing
else from this situation, I got the right attitude to finally develop that
Queen Overlord sitting amongst the dregs of plot notes. And a 500 word blog
post. The power isn’t even back on yet, who knows what I’ll do! *maniacal
laughter*
If you even dare make
a comment about how I should have “rebooted the modem” I’m making you the
expendable villain in my next story. You have been warned.
