kurt's words: of chimps and turkeys

As it's been a holiday Monday, which equals "found time," I decided to do a little virtual housekeeping.

I fired up Firefox and opened my burgeoning "Bookmarks" folder -- there I rediscovered well over a hundred items that I'd once found noteworthy enough to tag for a revisit but of which maybe a dozen had since been called upon (and that's probably a generous estimate). Yes, I'm a child of my MTV/A.D.D. generation, and a great procrastinator to boot, which means that many thoroughly interesting and life-enriching, knowledge-building items were at one time briefly scanned before they were summarily filed for a planned revisit that never was... Until today.

I found some great stuff buried in my pile of bookmarks, but of these immaterial treasures, one of the finest was this link to some words written by American satirical novelist and political gadfly Kurt Vonnegut. I offer this as part of the Wry Offensive that may yet save us, the silly race of "power-drunk chimpanzees".

once more to see the forest for the trees...

To those who began to doubt I'd ever return, I'm happy to report that the paper-making/chasing/shredding/filing/etc. madness has, for a time, subsided. It was a rather dense few months in the proverbial forest of a thousand pulped, pressed and bureaucratically processed trees, but I have now divested myself of a large burden of dead-wood and can once more see the light filtering through the dense foliage as the workplace fog thins and lifts. How's that for carrying a metaphor WAY too far?

And now I find myself in Toronto for a few days of mixed work and pleasure to contemplate the bigger picture that has come back into focus. More bloggerly activity is promised in the coming weeks as the gift of time is given back to this tired little lumberjack (now with 100% more beard).