MY TIME CAPSULE?

OK Here's the thing. I've been blogging for a couple of years now - normally posting my drivel on Wednesdays and Sundays. But I only recently discovered that Blogger, the host site which I use, has a most useful feature. Regardless of when I actually write a post, I can schedule it to appear on my site on a specific date at a specific time.

Just consider this for a moment. As we know, the muse is notoriously capricious and can desert a writer for long spells and then reappear in such a way that we can't get the words down fast enough. So now, I can dash off several blogs and set them up to explode onto the internet like time bombs at future dates.

Obviously, it is very convenient that I don't have to remember to post them myself on the set days - especially if I am on holiday lying on a beach somewhere. Yes dear reader, you are doomed to suffer them even when I am away on vacation. But have you seen where this leads us?

I am become immortal. I can set my scribblings to appear long after I am dead! All I have to do is to schedule my words of wisdom to appear on here in let us say, the year 2050 when I shall be but a distant memory. I'll be a sort of digital version of Samuel Pepys.

The problem is, I can think of absolutely nothing to say to future generations that they might want to read.