Missing a posting

Isaac misses a posting.

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Isaac: So I wake up at 12:50 AM, crashed over the keyboard, and realize I didn’t post a blog entry before midnight.

Eric: And you can’t backdate a blog posting.

Isaac: There may be a way but I don’t know it. I prefer to use the midnight cutoff as a kind of self discipline to write something every day.

Eric: Crashing at the computer is a good reason to skip isn’t it?

Isaac: I only skip if I’m nowhere near a computer or I’ve been called to the bedside of someone expiring. Anyway, I go to bed furious because I fell asleep before I’d posted.

Eric: Sad.

Isaac: But then this morning I turn on the computer and find, by crikey, there’s yesterday’s blogpost. 11:34 PM. I must have posted then crashed for an hour.

Eric: No recollection?

Isaac: Not the faintest. None at all.

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365

About to write about covers or context or something beginning with “c”, Barry’s memory is jogged by Blogspot Dashboard: “364 posts to date”.

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Barry: 364. If I post today, that’s 365. 365!

The Cat: [Yawn]

Barry: Don’t you realize what that means? It means I have kept it up for a whole year.

The Cat: [Blinks]

Barry: Sometimes I surprise myself. Never thought I could stick at it this long. Finding something new to say every day.

The Cat: [Meow]

Barry: Okay, so it wasn’t all new. Reality regurgitated, rehashed, perhaps restated. And a couple of days off. But they were because there was no Internet connection. To make up I sometimes posted twice a day.

Cat leaves.

Barry: No readers, never mind. The blog is the witness to my existence.

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