Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.
So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.
I was going to just comment that because it's such a common name that I know many people with that surname. But then I realized why it's Anderson and honestly, I think it's because they thought Adamson would be too on the nose, too obvious. Anders is another version of Andrew, which means "manly" . Neo Anderson is supposed to mean "new son of man". I just gave myself a dope slap. It was always obvious that Neo was meant to be a messianic figure, but I never thought about his name at all.
Good point, when I was a freshman in college I had an introductory Algebra course taught by a teacher we called Mr. Anderson. My friend found me in the library and asked me who taught my math class. I told her and she did the Agent Smith thing. I was so confused because I'd not seen the Matrix by that point.
What do you do when you think of something to write about in the blog, but then you suspect that you may have written about it before? You could read back through the early years but that’s a substantial task now the blog is as overweight as it’s become, and you don’t want to waste the time. Do you write it anyway and hope that no one remembers the previous iteration, if there is one? Or do you forget it and try to think of something else?
I’ll tell you what I do.
I write a post about the dilemma so that the issue is avoided entirely. And, if it matters to you, the subject I was thinking about was the existence or otherwise of aliens. Yes, little green men. And no, there are none.
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