Day 41: A desert full of sand

In case you are wondering who that sylph-like figure is on the front cover of the cloudhands website, I can confirm that it is me. I think the photo was either taken in Crete or Athens, but more likely in Athens. If it was the Athens trip, then this was the very first time I drank Sprite and it is where I bought my first Van der Graaf Generator LP (Vital). It is strange to think that the picture was taken in a certain time and space and here I am now in this time and space. If I went back to that time and place and did it all again it is highly unlikely that I would end up here now. But would things be better now or worse? There is no way of knowing. All I know is the here and now. If I take a certain path then I know what happens after I take that path, but I can never know what might have happened if I had taken a different path. I can certainly speculate on it, but I can never know for sure.

Shortly after I started writing this entry my good friend and collegue Al announced that he couldn't get onto blogger.com it was being blocked. I smuggly replied that I had got onto it ok so he must be some sort of light weight when it came to using the inter web. Once I have was happy with my opus I hit the "publish and be damned" button and got the same fecking message as him. I hit the back button and there was a blank form staring back at me. So, some jobsworth had been and implemented a block on blogger.com just after I had logged in! I quickly booted up my PowerBook in the hope that I would be able to remember what I put if I could get typing quickly enough, but as expected I could only remember the rough outline of what I put. This may have been the best bit of prose I had ever written and that was it gone into the ether (with Augustus John).

If anyone out there can tell me how I might be able to get my original text back from the firefox cache of oblivion please let me know in the comments for this post and I will see if I can resurrect it and replace this with the post it should have been.