The Excuse

Typos that don’t get fixed.

Comments that go unanswered.

Videos that only half-upload.

Unexplained absences.

This is the fallout from attempting to blog consistently from rice fields.

Internet is a commodity I have learned not to count on in this life overseas.  Wireless and speed have become smaller concerns in light of just having anything, at all.  (Currently, we do not have internet access at our house.)  Sometimes I will be in the middle of editing a live post when the power goes out for the evening because of a storm.  Other times, I will have to write an update at home and upload it later at a coffee shop, in the space of time it takes my three children to be distracted by the consumption of one icecream cone each.  I don’t have a phone that will text messages to Twitter, and I generally don’t have web access long enough to post the videos I have in que for YouTube.  In a world where social networking has become such a large factor in “blog success,” I am not in a position to be social {based on my present foreign location} or network {based on my current technological lameness}.

And I would be lying to say that I don’t grit my teeth at this reality.  A lot.

It seems in my “blogging ability,” I am tied in many ways to this latitude I’m walking.

But, then again, I am tied in many ways to this latitude I am walking.

And maybe the lessons learned are worth the restraints.

Regardless, thank you for your patience and grace . . .

And maybe your lower expectations, too.

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And, as always, I love your comments.  It reminds me that other people speak English, and that some are actually reading the English I write.  Happy Almost-Weekend, Friends.

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