Letting Go

[cbertsch]

I just wrote a very long entry on what it was like to take my daughter to the mall today. And then my client crashed while I was saving it. For a moment, I was livid. But then I had an idea. What if, like the art of people like Andy Goldsworthy, the loss of my words wasn't really loss at all? What if, like some of the rock sculptures he builds at ocean's edge, their unwitnessed disappearance was the best way for my ideas to be expressed? It sounds like a rationalization, I know. But it's preferable to throwing the laptop across the room.

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laptop in room flight horror

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i, too, am suffering from technology.

terri has offered to buy me a new one, so i have been looking, but it is getting me in a shocking temper now, and i am beginning to think that with a clean install i would rather keep this one which was cheap and i have low expectations of.

bah and bloody seasons humbugs.

[flw.livejournal.com]

You just made an Andy Goldsworthy joke!

That takes something special.

You're Either Making Progress or You've Taken The Arcades Project Literally

[(Anonymous)]

Goes without saying, this is the way I run my entire life -- trashed blogs, hurled notebooks, buried marriages and all.

[celebrian-3.livejournal.com]

This is why I write most of my posts into Word first, saving as I go. It's far too easy to lose a lot of writing that way.