I figured I’d write about this instead of what I was going to write about tonight. Mostly because I experienced the exact situation that I describe above where I decided my initial idea had too many holes in it to make a good post.

Generally, I’m uncomfortable with the idea that I have anything useful to say in the first place. I don’t want to spend effort and put things online if I don’t actually use that effort to say something useful. It’s very much a “who am I to say such things?” question I pose to myself. I suppose that’s the second hurdle and it’ll be coming out in typewritten form tomorrow.

The answer to that, by the way, is probably best phrased as “who cares?” It’s unlikely that I will develop anything useful to say by not practicing.

In a technical note, I one of the rollers on the typewriter I used for this doesn’t like gripping this paper very much. You can see the effect of that a little where the thing decided to almost mash one line into another in the second paragraph. It eventually got its act together and the rest of the document is actually relatively well-aligned. If it wasn’t for trying to overcome those quirks, I don’t think this would be half as fun as it is.