Soot and Smoke and Tweeterbirds
There’s just something about fire that is utterly fascinating.
That said, when a boy decides to play with firecrackers on a windy New Years Day and sets the back yard on fire…less with the fascination and more with the panic. Said boy would be my little cousin. He was appropriately horrified and embarrassed, and fortunately we were able to at least slow the progression of the flames that it didn’t reach the tree-line before the fire department arrived.
My throat’s raw and I’m congested from helping to fight the fire, but other than a huge patch of black, burnt grass, there was no real damage done.
On another note, I’ve trying out Twitter. In general, I despise the world of netspeak that was encouraged by such things as limited-character cell phone text messaging and Twitter. However, as my beloved Strunk and White preach concise writing, and because I’ve found several writing Twitterers who post links to interesting information via Twitter, I thought I’d try it out myself.
My initial uses of it were entirely for advertising my blog updates, but lately I’ve embraced the “microblogging” aspects of it, and you will see my latest Tweets on this page. It seems to be a good way to quickly jot down new ideas in a place that is easily accessible.
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