As I have said elsewhere over the decades, I am an inattentive perfectionist, prone to self-destructive activity, and constantly amazed at my longevity. I don't mean amazed in the sense that leads to the kinds of political, religious, economic, and corporate autism that made the NOMF™ possible. I mean amazed as in a state of continual wonder in defense of innocence and naiveté.
I have worked as a writer and editor for years and in that imaginary role I am obsessed with correctness and detail, and I never release a document, no matter how trivial, without having multiple reviews and approvals.
Generally, when I get through with a manual or set-up guide or help system, I have typed and retyped and cut and pasted so many times that I know what I meant to say, which makes me incompetent as a proof-reader of my own work.
In the real world, I trust others who have joined together — however artificially — to take on a project and attach bits of their self-worth to it, even if it only means a better rating during a focal evaluation cycle.
With my own work on the InterWeb, I don't even trust myself, and except when some assholes like the wonderful fucks over at Today.com lock me out and steal my boots and put me on the road again, to quote somebody I used to listen to, it doesn't bother me to post an entry with a few typos and grammatical errors because I can always revise.
The truth is I am writing about the same things today that I wrote about 50 years ago. I'm just better at it from having 50 years of practice, and I rarely submit my work to anyone as I did back when I was known as The Tylenol Kid. I made a mistake recently with Humorbloggers.com, but that's another post when I've got a couple of gallons of grain and some heavy narcotics lined up. I don't like to start writing until I've blacked out. It makes life more fun.
I am the personification of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America who believes that the first amendment, for instance, belongs solely to those who would abuse it. The second amendment should be used solely to defend oneself against assholes who happen to be offended when you abuse the first one, and so on.
That said, I just fixed more than 40 errors in yesterday's post, not in spite of, but because I don't give a shit.
Welcome to your world and the place of my trivial tool within it.