500 Free Form Words

This post is more of a free-form monologue, rather than a cogent post. I will do very little editing and the goal is to reach 500 words as quickly as possible. I have been dragging too long in creating a new post. And this is my penalty, posting something like this for all to see.

So far, I've failed in my quest to create a daily post of something. So here is another attempt. I am also doing this by dictation in the iOS on an iPad and, quite frankly, the technology still has a way to go. I will definitely be doing more editing, then I initially imagined. Actually looking this over, I'm having second thoughts on whether it would just be quicker to type it in.

Okay, I'm going to type this paragraph manually and try to judge whether or not I will do the rest of the post this way. There is a definite difference between typing and pure dictation. Dictation is a real skill and I remember my dad just spitting out the stuff. He would always have a dictaphone on hand, especially when the technology made them smaller. It got to the point where he actually had a secretary just doing his tapes.

Since I'm watching the Top Chef finale, I've decided to not use the dictation and try to listen and write at the same time. Of course, this guarantees that I'll neither catch all of the show nor write anything worth reading.

Having worked in the restaurant industry for many years, I like the cooking shows. Top Chef focuses more on the food and less on the false interpersonal drama than most of the others. I do think the judges are a little pretentious at times. They sometimes look down on simplicity. I really laugh of the concept of "deconstruction" in the attempt of originality. You're not going to eat it with tweezers, so don't use tweezers to plate it.

Getting back to the blog, I feel bad about failing in the everyday effort, but I only compound it by not trying again and again. So this effort is being thrown together and will be posted tonight, no matter how late I have to stay up. "Tomorrow" is a word that has killed so many of my past tomorrows.

I decided that I'll use reposts (when I get enough), post something by another (with their permission), or link something and make a comment, rather than miss a day again. In addition to making the blog readable, adhering to this goal will improve my writing, and quite frankly, my organizational skills outside of writing.

I also have a bunch of family photos that I will use when I think they are of general interest. Most of the ones that I've seen are people, but if any recognizable local features are photographed, I'll share them as I come across them. (Organizing the family letters and photos archive is another big project that I've started and stopped too many times.)

The next post will return to a more cogent, logical argument about expanding the concept of historical protection.