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Synthesis & Synchronicity #57

Cafe Hopping Ok, well Tuesday turned into a cafe hopping day. I packed up my little wheeled box with all my needed gear and made my way to the Central Sqaure Starbucks to start the day. Why? Well there's this wonderful huge tank truck working its way down my home street to clean out the sewer lines. A wonderful, huge and extremely loud process that makes listening to the drills in the dentist office sound pleasant. I can't read, write, watch tv, listen to music, or even really do my household chores under this sort of conditions, so away I go.

Of course the process is not problem free, since my computer continues to have Ac adapter cord problems (this makes the screen flicker whenever it reduces down when it has to switch to battery from the bad connection). And of course my wheeled box is not fun to deal with, it's a folding oversized filebox/milk crate of plastic with an extending handle. It makes life easier for my back though, and since I'm still popping the pills to make it manageable its an absolute necessity if I want to carry more than a pocket writing notebook (my previously written about moleskine).

Anyway I spent some time here, recharge my batteries and then eventually depart for someplace that actually has a bathroom. Of course it won't really necessarily be a cafe I head to, since we have so few and they are so evilly crowded these days. Someone needs to open up something closer to home *again*. The Putnam Cafe remains vacant, the Whole Foods management having reneged on all their promises and deals and agreements that they made with the community and with the zoning board.

Cambridge, of course, has its usual problems. Few places to go where I can sit without shelling out money for something to justify my presence. If you don't buy stuff every hour or two then they start to notice you and try to nudge you to either do so or head on off.... and of course the predominant chairs designed to create back problems and leg circulation problems NEVER helps. I miss the padded benches and chairs of the Putnam Cafe to an extreme. Whatever happened to the concept of friendliness, repeat customers and community space. I guess in the case of the last the politicians have decided that if you make community space then people might form a community and react enmasse to their bad decisions and force them out of office etc. Isolated people are more complacent and less likely to fight back against stupidity and greed. Sigh.

I'm starting To Wonder about the whole Live Journal popularity/visibility/feedback thing. Sure, I've picked up a few readers, and gotten a handful of comments regarding my posts since I started putting my journal in both places, but not the sort of 'larger response' I expected. I'm now reading on a regular basis three times as many journals as I was previous to the jump to LJ, but I'm just not seeing the feedback. Maybe the time of year is just bad? Or maybe it's my tendency to make long posts while a lot of the folks I'm reading are like posting only 1-2 paragraphs at the most? Or maybe I'm just not hitting the right topics to invoke discussion?

I'm also still trying to figure out how I post to the discussion groups that I've signed up for. I can comment on them fine, but I see no method of starting a thread on them, which in things like the Haiku and other writing related groups means I'm pretty shut out of really getting the sorts of response I want since I can't post anything that is original to get comments on but just comment on the work of others. Could anyone on LJ explain the mechanics of this to me?

I've Edited the above so it made sense since I did not manage to get the journal entry up yesterday. Why? Power supply problems basically left me offline while I tried to get the batteries recharged on the portable overnight. Now they are charged and the Ac line is working (for the moment) again so I've harnessed myself to the dialup line to get some online reading and replies done in LJ.

It's Sweeps Week according to Shadesong in regards to life events. My life, compared to hers, is being relatively quiet. Kiralee is being kept busy by work, social engagements and such and has basically ignored household operations entirely this week to keep up with it. This is basically leaving me a lone a lot, since Cindy is in overtime mode with her job (tax season). It's hard sometimes being the reliable, stable 'rock' in the household who keeps everything managed and flowing well.

I risked my back slightly last night (again) as the tenants on the 3rd floor had a new roomate moving in and a bed frame that would not make it up the stairs without a third set of hands and guidance knowledge of how to get things up our windy old staircase. We managed to get the furniture up and intact, without taking down any plaster or making nasty marks or nicks along the way. They are generally a nice group of female students with one recent grad student who's more or less the organizer of the group, but are obviously from a different culture than our household.

What I'm Not Doing enough of is writing the things I'm supposed to. I'm spending time working on my journal, reading a book that has nothing to do with my projects, housework, more housework, errands, watching tv and being peeved with myself and my writers block. Of course, part of it is the return of the fear of not really writing as well as I want to. I wrote more and better when Kiralee was able to act as my editor and re-write person, but with her complex life involvements and job there just isn't time for her to read or edit anything, and hasn't been for quiet some time. She can read something I write and make it sing my ideas out so much better than I can.

Sigh.

Oh well, I should probably upload this to the website and LJ so that I stop fretting over it and can go on to my next house project.... and then maybe inspire myself to get some real writing done. I hate it when I get writers block.

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