Excuses, excuses, excuses...

In November, 2004, my home computer crashed. I had noticed it slowing down significantly and I knew I have a fairly robust computer. Then, my privacy software notified me that it suspected there was at least one spyware app on it, so I downloaded a spyware detector. Sure enough, there was not one, not two, but over 250 separate spyware or spyware related software that had found a home on my harddrive. I wiped them. My computer returned to it’s regular robust behavior. And then 2 days later, crashed. Like a brick. Bam. Dead.

Thanks to the rather remarkable folks at Dell, who had already seen this phenomena (the spyware detector I had purchased was from a major spyware provider! And it was unstable on WinXP systems.) I was able to get into my system JUST enough to back up all my files to CD. I could only get about 300 Mb per CD, as opposed to the normal 750, but hey, who cares? I got my data safe and sound.

And then, I completely wiped my harddrive, and reloaded it from the ground up. Somehow, unfortunately, and I really would like to know how THIS happened, but I LOST one CD of data… the one that had the most important stuff on it! Oh well. I still search from time to time… it’s bound to turn up, I guess. Or not.

Why do I write about this? It’s totally NOT in keeping with my normal themes. Well, one side effect of this is that for some reason, I absolutely can not do some things I used to do. I can’t go to Yahoo!Games and play my Gin, or Collapse… or any other game for that matter.

And I can’t get logged in to blogger.com in order to post. I can’t do it with Firefox. I can’t do it with Explorer. It’s really rather irritating. I’m relegated to posting here only from work.

Until Friday. That’s when I (re)discovered that I could post via EMAIL! So, this is my first post from email, on a weekend, from home for over 3 months. Trouble is… I don’t really have anything to say. Just felt like burning a little bandwidth to explain why I don’t usually post on weekends.

So… Pilgrim. I stand by my earlier post to you. If you find your path to God In Us travels through Judaism, or Jewish Mysticism, then that is the road you need to travel. I can not, nor do I wish to, judge you for that. God brings all who listen to God along many routes. My path leads one way, yours another. And yet, the two paths converge inexorably at a single point.

I do believe that there are paths that don’t lead to this singular place I call God In Us. But those paths are reserved to those who choose not to listen to the siren song of love reverberating in our bones… the primal homing beacon of God’s Love.

Those who do choose to listen and to follow that beacon will get to the destination. And I think it’s rather remarkable, my friend, that even if we choose different paths we can still travel together.

So now, we operate with two separate metaphors, eh? We dance together to different tunes, or we travel together on different paths. Perhaps we can dance together on our separate paths?