Here but not here
I’m off the Internet ’til 2014. January 2nd at 10 a.m. Pacific, to be exact.
Why, barring Godzilla attack or similar calamity, am I off the Internet ’til 2014? Because while 2013 was in almost every way a terrific thing for me, I’ve developed the habit of being on the Internet constantly. As in, every 30 seconds. Like a teenage girl. (I know this because I have a teenage girl.) Now, I love the Internet — believe me, it beats in every way the not-knowingness-and-no-way-to-checkness of my youth, plus I make my living almost entirely via the Internet — but I’d like to do a lot of writing this next week without wondering what’s up on Facebook. (He said, while acknowledging that Facebook is one of the ways he makes his living.)
But wait, you say. There seem to be posts going up on this blog when you say you’re offline. And, well, what about this post you’re writing now?
If you see posts going up before the 2nd, now you’ll know that I’ve written them in advance and set them to post later. (Which will be previously, by the time I’m back, but is in the future conditional as I’m writing this. How does Doctor Who or Kang the Conqueror ever keep these things straight?)
Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.