Bad Times on the Green Tortoise

A few changes ... and yes, you can skip over this boring introductory material if you'd like, going either here, to thecopy of Bad Times on the Green Tortoise on the main blog or, if you should feel like doing so, for some reason (maybe because Blogger is running slowly), to the copy hosted over on Blogger, in the pages of the Misadventures site on Webring Webspace.

The blog functions as an extension of that site. I've gone so far as to incorporate the name of said site into the name of this blog, to drive this point home - effectively, the blog is just another subdirectory. Aside from providing the reader with a means of reducing the load on the sometimes overtaxed Webring server (which, we should remember, has to be maintained by only ten employees or so), the blog will provide one very valuable service for readers who wish to follow this site. I will be posting notices of updates to the site on its companion blog, which, as I've said, has links back to the ring on every page, right in the right hand margin where the blog widgets have been found, under a widget clearly marked with the word "navigation" - nothing ambiguous about that. Similar widgets and links can be found on the companions to the companion blog, which I've set up because Blogger's static page functionality is so limited, and likely to vanish in the foreseeable future, given Google's officially started operating philosophy ("Just good enough") and history of discarding little used features, which this one seems designed to become.

One might wonder what an update blog would be set up for, on a site like this, because I'm certainly not going to be riding with the Green Tortoise, again, for reasons which the account which follows should make painfully clear. The answer to that is that the Web, like Nature, abhors a vacuum. When webspace exists, it begs to be filled. There will be more pages to come on this site, some of which will be about subjects raised by the article ahead - budget travel for people with disabilities and gluten free eating come to mind. What you probably won't be seeing on this site (or its sisters) are many more pages about Internet drama. These days, I have the sense to end the drama before the story of it has a chance to become too elaborate, and thus complex enough that it can be lied about effectively, creating the necessity of writing rebuttal pages to put an end to rumor mongering at the expense of those who conducted themselves reasonably and honorably. Patience is something better saved for one's life offline, where live can be lived more fully, even when it isn't going well. As for when life is going well, one might reasonably ask if that ever happens online, at all, or how it could. Cursors on a screen are a poor substitute for the richness of real life experience, are they not?

I hope you like flashbacks, because I use a lot of them in this piece. My purpose, as I write this, isn't to lay out a sequence of events, but to honestly share an experience, and anticipation was definitely a part of this one.

If only that could have been good news ... continued

Return to Your Ring

Yes, I've set up a whole page just for the Webring code fragments for "Burning Man: Bad Times on the Green Tortoise", though I guess this page might end up being seen as being fairly redundant, considering how small the planned entry page will be? At least we avoid a small amount of confusion this way?

The navbar for the page you entered my site on should be easily found below, unless you entered my sites from the copy of Bad Times on the Green Tortoise entered through the "Pack a Lunch" site (which are found on the Ember site, copies of which can be found on Artshost.com (a Freewebsites domain), 0catch.com and 1apps.com, with a partial mirror hosted on Deadjournal as well) in which case you'll need to go to the ring return page for that location, or if you came in on some page that wasn't "Bad Times on the Green Tortoise", in which case you should go to the local ring return page for the Misadventures site (with which That Stupid Green Tortoise Blog is associated), which should be able to help you get back to where you were.

Also, if you entered through the Misadventures site on Webring Webspace instead of through "That Stupid Green Tortoise Blog" on Blogger, and you absolutely must return to your ring through the same site you were on when you came in, you can do so here. I have no idea of why you'd want to do that, as the same ring code is present in both locations, but hey, whatever keeps somebody's world turning, I guess. I wouldn't want to seem less than totally committed to absolute total webring navigability.