The Electric

There has been some discussions about blogs reviling too much personal information.

A good example has been the sparring between Chris Pirillo and Ponzi while the two of them are on vacation in Hawaii’. Granted their on Maui which drove Jean and I to snip at each other due to the insane amount of effort it takes to move around on that island. For me, when I think about going back to Hawaii’ it comes down to three places that call out to me Windward coast of Oahu, First Christian Church of Honolulu and Pescatore in downtown Hilo on Big Island. But I digress.

Twice I have let too much personal information out on a blog and had it bit me in the butt. Now was what I posted meant to do damage or hurt folks? Nope.

It was written and posted for me by me in an unfiltered format without thinking how it would be taken by someone else. Notice that I’m not doing my usual apology which is an interesting development for me since in the past I would all but take other’s views above my own. Plus I tend to hold too many things in rather than get them out. So that’s why I post my rantings here. Even if I’m the only person to read them, I can at least look at them and try to find just where the feeling that produced the post came from. Plus it helps me remember where I’ve been and how far I’ve come.

Plus there have been times that I’ve gotten to know someone much better because I mentioned something on my blog that started us talking about other things we had in common.

It is interesting to see what memories are starting to take hold in John.

For example, last year when we went to Disney, we took John to the “It’s tough to be a bug” show under the Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom. Now if you’ve gone to the trouble to shoot in 3d, you want to show your audience that it’s working by doing a ‘pop’ effect in which someone or something comes at you from out of the screen.

We had forgotten about this and while John didn’t get upset, he didn’t want anything to do with the glasses. Not for that show or when we saw the new 3d show inside the Magic Kingdom.

Fast forward to Monday night. We decided to take in Chicken Little in 3d. I knew that John might not like the glasses. After all, while at Wildlights Sunday, we took John’s cousin on the merry go round. The last time we took him, he didn’t like it. 8 months later, he still doesn’t like it.

Yet I had to try and sure enough, he wanted no part of them. The irony is that if the sun is out and bright, John is the first to let you know that the sun is in his eyes and he needs his sun glasses.