Hello, friends! Having spent 3 weeks at the Ashram in Trinidad, where my days were absolutely FILLED with extremely meaningful and USEFUL activities...which strengthened and improved me as a human being, instead of just keeping my restless mind occupied...

I am now taking a good look at my daily life back here in Ontario and I'm reassessing a few things.

Most of my time here (aside from earning my living) is being WASTED.

I am wasting it:

1. yakking on Mudcat

2. surfing the net

3. playing wargames on the computer (Civil War Generals II, at the moment)

4. debating with people to no particular purpose that I can see about things that we are not in much position to change and about which we have limited information anyway, coloured by our prejudices and personal background.

When I was in Trinidad, I spent about 10 minutes out of that whole 3 weeks on a computer. The rest of the time I was engaged in REAL life, with real people, with physical reality, with music, with gardens, with exercise, etc....

Now not that you guys aren't real people, but...all this virtual reality is robbing me of a mortal life that is all too short anyway. And for what?

It's silly.

I am just letting you know that I will probably be on here a lot less in future. (Hopefully, anyway!) My good wishes to each and every one of you, and may you thoroughly enjoy being exactly who you are!

Special good wishes to Amos, Bobert, Spaw, Hesperis, CarolC, DougR, Rick Fielding, Oakley, day-liah, McGrath, Khandu, and...well, I can't think of everyone special right now, so sorry if I overlooked you!

I'm not disappearing, I'm just trying to break a pointless addiction that is getting me nowhere useful.

Peace on Earth. (Shatner Lives! Ha! Ha!)

Cheers,

George