On this date, the 26th of April in the year 2008 of the Common Era, as reckoned on the Hawai‘ian Islands, I received a great blessing. Besides Quilly, that is, who is a great blessing all the time.

My laptop computer, the one I had brought from Maine new just over a year ago, has passed away.

It cost a pretty penny, from a manufacturer I had deemed reputable. And now it is gone.

Gone with the rest of its class of machines, the durability, repairability, and upgradability of which are so pathetic as a function of their cost, I can only wonder why we bother.

Bother to the point of gifting its makers and supporters with fortunes larger than the annual gross domestic products of most of the nations on this planet. While millions go hungry. And millions more garner resentment. Hatred. Even hatred unto violence.

I have no plans to replace this computer. I am unwilling to continue feeding the monster. Which means that I will be departing the blogosphere. And therein lies the blessing.

The blessing of time. Time to pursue other things, things that need doing, things that want doing, that the pleasure of blogging has taken away.

I will not be completely absent. Quilly’s star is rising, she is making something of blogging that I will never achieve. I will be an amoeba oozing in her background.

And besides, I’m a scientist. Never is not in my vocabulary.

So, this is au revoir, not adieu. The future may bring many things. But for the foreseeable future, amoeba be silent.

Be well.

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