Two nights ago, as I was drowsing, I was curious: how long a post could I author, always following a particular constraint on my vocabulary?  I know that a full book of many thousand words is a possibility (Gadsby), but how good is it?  Did you know that a “Simpsons” man, facing a lay-off, could not string along hardly any words without violating a similar constraint (and falling to his doom at Burns’ whim)?

So what can I possibly accomplish in this way?  Mayhap I simply wish to show that this gargantuan task is in fact not so fanciful.  I do admit, looking back on my work to this point, I sound a bit uptight, but this is possibly just my own imagination - or a symptom of this tight vocabulary I must follow.  Who can say?

But what can I talk about on this blog today, still honoring my disavowal of that individual symbol?  My day at work?  That was mostly boring - installing PHP, MySQL and such stuff for an upcoming IBD wiki, with a bit of work to pick out a laptop for our BDO.  TV?  No; Kim says Criminal Minds is on tonight but I don’t know what to say about it in this forum.  Truthfully, nothing at all is coming to mind, and I’m unusually thankful about it.

I think it will turn out for the good of all if I bring this task to its rightful conclusion, and stop now.  How do you think I did?

Post-script: I saw right away that I was actually writing this post as “admin”, and not using my standard login.  How’s that for an astonishing mishap?