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i am now officially back from my blog-vacation. not that i ever intended to take one in the first place, but this is what happened: in short, my life became a very interesting mix of the insanely boring and the insanely busy. now, in normal times and under normal conditions, i would only experience one of these extremes at a time; the rest of the day or week or month would be smoothed out by a moderate balance. not so these last two weeks–i have been riding the pendulum daily in a rollercoaster-like arc.

so, you, my faithful blog readers (of which i’m sure there are now none) have been left out of both the inane and the exciting. better this way, in my opinion, than just receiving the inane.

in any case my observation over the past two weeks is this: life without a blog is the same. i did no better or worse in any area of my being, and no observable changes ensued during the unintentional blog fast.

mostly, this made me breathe a sigh of relief, as i can now safely put to death the false accusations of blog-haters (secretly blog-enviers, no doubt) everywhere and their silly arguments as to the addictive and/or harmful and/or useless nature of the blog.

unfortunately, i have neither read anyone’s blog for the past few weeks, and so i don’t know what’s going on in the lives of many of my friends. sooner or later i will catch up, i promise.

listening to: the sound of my brother sleeping

By Jonathan Lipps

Jonathan worked as a programmer in tech startups for several decades, but is also passionate about all kinds of creative pursuits and academic discussion. Jonathan has master’s degrees in philosophy and linguistics, from Stanford and Oxford respectively, and is working on another in theology. An American-Canadian, he lives in Vancouver, BC and has way too many hobbies.

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