Or two days, depending on how you look at it.
I’m still having problems getting on to WordPress, but apart from mentioning the fact that there’s a sticky on the Support Forum I’m not going there. Things will be resolved shortly. Probably. Hopefully.
Apologies for the lack of replies from this part of the world, but I’ll get round to them as soon as things are a lot more stable.
In other news, I ‘aged’ overnight on Wednesday. Yes, I became a ‘year older’ as it was my birthday on Thursday. A fact that I couldn’t forget about, even if I tried. I visited Google, and they had a special logo in honour of my birthday.
I first saw it, and hovered my curser over it – I always do when they show a different image (I’m nosy like that) – and I saw:
I’ve never been celebrated in a Google logo before, and felt quite honoured, and then I realised that they usually do these logos for folk who are centuries old now. And then I realised that they probably do this for everyone with a Google Plus account, so I then felt old and not as special. And then I wondered why I’d used my actual date of birth for the account but moved on, convincing myself that I’d altered the year slightly. Not that I have a problem with my age or anything. Not me. No.
Anyway, this being 24 isn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. I’ve been 24 for a few years now. A fair few years in fact. I haven’t aged since 1992. Several of my Inner Aspects nickname me Tom Pan, the other boy who never grew up. That’s probably the reason why I spend so much of my time in a fantasy world. Anyhoo, age is merely a number, I say. And I like the number 24. My other favourite number is 4, but I’d never get away with using that one!
Since March 13th IS my birthday, and I’m Piscean, being dreamy is one of the characteristics I seem to display strongly. Some Piscean strengths are compassionate, accepting and imaginative, but on the flip-side the weaknesses include being indecisive, lazy and escapist. They all sum me up to a T.
Now, it’s funny the way how things work out. The phrase to a T, for instance, was recently used in this post. In the last paragraph in fact. In a recent post, I wrote about Rishard Púbol dotting his Ts and crossing his Is. And the two are linked.
An early example of the phrase to a T, used before the word was abbreviated, and at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, was ‘to a tittle’. It was used in the comedy drama The Woman Hater, by Francis Beaumont, penned around 1606.
The word ‘tittle’ isn’t used much nowadays. The word isn’t, but what it is is. It’s the dot in the lower case letters I and J, and the phrase dotting Is and crossing Ts indicates the act of being thorough. Which I am. Sometimes…
The phrase tittle-tattle is used more frequently, which means to gossip idly or talk trivially. This blog is full of the trivial – but is it tittle-tattle? Probably. I’d like to think not, though.
So, in returning to my blog after a quick but unplanned mini-break, I’m presented with another link to the Seventeenth Century – and not one that would have immediately come to mind. There is still something there, something lingering. More facts, please, Universe.
Now all I can do is hope this posts. Well, here goes…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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