I know I've hardly blogged at all this past year, so, by now, the sound of crickets chirping is more the norm than percolating posts here at O Dock.
But, in the past month or so, I've also abandoned my usual blogging haunts.
Not only have I stopped reading the blogs of my online friends, but I've ceased leaving those brilliantly annoying, often alliterative, and generally irrelevant comments for which I've been so often taken to task.
I know what you're thinking - finally, we've gotten some peace from this idiot.
Well, true, but I think I owe some explanation to folks who have supported this blog over the years.
Lately, I've been having some health issues which have demanded my focus and which have left me in less than jovial spirits. I still have no idea what's wrong (physically, that is) and am working with some doctors to get the answers.
I've never thought personal health matters to be appropriate subject matter for a sailing blog or even a pseudo-sailing blog like this one, unless they were closely tied to sailing or pseudo-sailing itself, so I'll spare you the tedious details.
Hopefully, I'll be back up and dancing again soon and you'll again be made to endure that endless hailstorm of snide that has left a funny taste in the mouth of so many hapless blog readers over the years.
For now, enjoy the quiet while you can.
Thanks for the update. I was almost beginning to miss you.
ReplyDeleteHope you get the health issues sorted out and that we will soon be treated to more of your annoying brilliance and alliterative irrelevance.
As your current post points out, almost anyone or anything can be connected to any other if you dig hard enough.
DeleteBeing truly irrelevant is an underappreciated art.
Wow, you and I have one degree of separation! And here I thought I'd cornered the irrelevance market.
DeleteI think irrelevance refuses to be cornered.
DeleteFinding the truly irrelevant is like solving a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside a jelly donut.
And jelly donuts don't have any corners.
I wonder if they've made a jelly cronut yet.
DeleteVery glad to hear from you. Quitting blogging whenever you feel like it (or need to) is always the blogger's perogative - but I do hope you're back to dancing (or even just napping on your napping boat) soon.
This is really why I need to keep reading blogs.
DeleteUntil I googled, I had no idea what a cronut is (and even Chrome's spellcheck is turning its nose up at it). OK, it seems to have been born in the culinary fertile croissant of New York, so you'd probably know of it before me anyway, but all the more reason to keep following blogs.
The cronut makes the jelly donut sound so 20th century.
You may be suffering from anticipatory blog withdrawal syndrome (ABWS)which is an insidious self fulfilling condition. I'm sure the doctors will have tests, a prescription or two or procedure to sell you. Hopefully they will get it right and sort it out quickly.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to reading more brilliantly annoying comments from you soon.
I think I may be exhibiting some withdrawal symptoms - an inability to create alliterative phrases of more than three words, a slowness to generate bad puns.
DeleteMaybe I've become physically dependent on blogging.
Try something different. Like working out how many degrees of separation you are from Fred A. Mabbett.
DeleteGet well Homie! Health is one of three earthly treasures. Blogs are not!
ReplyDeleteZen, I stopped following my usual blogs just about the time of your recent ordeal.
DeleteI've now been catching up on your story - hokey smokes!
Glad to hear you both made it through and have now landed where you wanted to, at least. When we're cursing a stiff chop on the Bay, we forget how much worse it can get Out There. Hope things are starting to come together again for you, and thanks for the good words.
I've been missing your comments and wondered what was the source of your absence. Having gone through recent health issues myself (and still in the throes of it as well), I can relate.
ReplyDeleteStay well, Dock.
On Dancing:
ReplyDeleteA few years back I had pre-emptive open heart surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm that I happened (by chance) to discover. Once I was recovered enough from the operation to resume athletic training (at the time, swimming workouts), I was progressing, but feeling extremely tired and sluggish. A visit to my cardiologist revealed that I had developed "a-fib" (atrial fibrillation, or cardiac arrhythmia) as a result of the surgery. To remedy this, he said I needed a "reset"; this involved anaesthesia and then pads on my chest with a big electric jolt. When I checked in to the hospital for the procedure, the nurse asked me if I had ever had this procedure ("electrical cardioversion") before. I had not.
Then she said to me (encouragingly): "When you're done, you're gonna feel like you want to get up and dance!!"
I will never forget that. She was right. The next day I shaved 5 seconds off my 100 yard splits in my swim workout.
Good luck in discovering and fixing your issue, O Docker. We are all patiently, but eagerly, awaiting the day when you get up and dance (again)!!
Thanks, Mojo.
DeleteThere's been some good news in the past few days, and I think I'm starting to feel better.
I'm thinking some good therapy would be to write a really awful limerick or two.
Glad to hear that good news O Docker. And that would be really good therapy. Granted the meter is limiting, but that border engenders creative focus.
DeleteYou are stepping on to the road back!
Sorry to hear about the health issues but hopefully the doctors get you up and dancing in no time.
ReplyDeleteKeep well O Docker!
get thyself to a dance floor! seriously . . . get well.
ReplyDeleteGo sailing!
DeleteHope you're recovered soon and back on the keyboard for the blog dance (or should that be blog commentators dance)
ReplyDeleteA good limerick is always welcome - as is an Irish Jig. I will await you feeling like either with baited breath. Good to hear from you x
ReplyDeleteI having nothing witty, snarky or profound to say. Get well old friend.
ReplyDeleteenjoy the silence, like one hand clapping
ReplyDeleteyo!...everyone's here, hanging and yapping
the Odock galley is the place to be
we cheer you on to be healthee
oof. out of practice. pen some more when you feel up to it! xoxo c
Welcome back here and keep us posted!... so, you made it back from England on that crazy flat bottom boat then?!
ReplyDeleteWhere the heck have you been since August 1?
ReplyDeleteWell, dang, I've been slightly more amiss than you, my friend, and much less present. I hope all is well. Sending you much aloha, much later than I'd have liked.
ReplyDeleteMahalos for your everpresent spirit and the kolohe comments over the years.
BTW, Kris and I have discovered that tropical waves have magical healing powers.