(The following paragraph is not the most serious reason you should hire a loudspeaker. If you really want to hire one, do it by hour and not by day as you cannot predict precisely when you’ll get arrested but an hour cuts it fine enough. Still in doubt? Get a white van and some paint. Make sure you have enough petrol just to get there – you know where. If you don’t have enough reasons, read on.)
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I had a bloody respectable website for so many years; true and safe, New Zealand based, virtually untouched. I had been so accustomed to go in there as you do when you retire by the seaside after a lifetime in a slaughterhouse with broken air conditioning. And I was retiring in there almost daily, just making changes once a year when the only thing I had to change was the copyright notice with the year at the bottom of the main page. This is how frequency in non-frequent actions creates an unusually use of usual stuff. (What’s the name of the guy who thought some yucky bodily functions are as pleasant as some other yummier ones but they just became common due to very frequent use? Freud? I don’t think so. He was much better than that.)
You may think this has nothing to do with parenthood.
Watching a baby grow is more predictable than watching the paint dry. There have been a few babies known to have done the same thing before: they grow and grow! (Not that I’ve noticed.)
“Nursing can be tricky” [quoting The Encyclopaedia of Mothers Reunited – FAQ]. In most cases nursing is still boringly predictable, though. Even the sleepless nights are quite normal, as much as you may hate them. (While you don’t sleep but you should sleep and you so much desire to sleep, your body releases endorphins or other things with longer names and this could extend your life or the contrary, whatever – don’t try this at home!)
Yet watching a concept grow is a bit of another concept. Ask Sigourney Weaver, if you can get hold of her. Concepts are aliens.
To cut it short: this cute monster I’ve been nursing here wants me to put its name at the front of the home page. Do I have a choice?
The baby wants to be changed. This is why as of today we are called just
mockoblog
Like it or not, you’ll have to accept it as it is. Still in doubt? What about that as the most hated slogan: “there’s nothing like a free lunch”.
If you really want to punish us for the changes (there will be a few more major ones but of a minor sort!), please do not post any comments. My baby mockoblog hates your comments anyway. They wake him up!
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Brief history note: I am returning the loudspeaker because the street opposition in Iran may need it more than I do after their last Presidential Elections.
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