Wednesday, November 1, 2000

November 1, 2000 452pm CST I must be very tired. My entries today contain a number of stupid errors. Using two finite verbs in a row. What was I thinking? Probably that I only slept about three hours last night. I think I got all of the really glaring ones. 4:58:47 PM    comment []

November 1, 2000 215pm CST It has come to my attention that up until fairly recently, jonvw.com didn't work properly with Netscape. I fixed it, so now my page should display correctly in just about any browser. My FAQ is actually 100% standards compliant (which shouldn't surprise anyone since it is just text). It is so nice to see iCab smile when I go to a page that I have created. 2:16:46 PM    comment []

November 1, 2000 909am CST Happy November! This is the month that I associate with autumn, my second favorite season of the year. Of course, autumn hasn't really hit us yet. Yesterday, I wore a t-shirt, and I was still uncomfortably warm walking around outside. I am still going sockless most of the time. But autumn is on its way, I can feel it. Every year around this time, nostalgic notions of hearth and harvest start to invade my imagination. I dream of turkey and squash, and I can picture myself sitting around a fireplace with my family and friends playing homemade games and swilling apple cider. Of course, these images are not based on any specific memories of mine. They are constructed from a sort of communal imagination. Or maybe it is a communal memory, I don't know. I just know that I have never actually experienced the autumn in such a traditional setting, with the exception of a few hayrack rides now and then. These dreams are built from the shared culture of a middle America that yearns for the day when they can retire from their jobs in the cities and move to the romantic, rustic family farms. There is no family farm for me. Though the towns in which I have lived may seem small to city-dwellers, life in a town of 45,000 is still a far cry from life in the country. I have never lived in a really rural environment, but I still feel somehow compelled to "return" to the rural lifestyle. Maybe it is just an autumn thing. 10:29:12 AM    comment []