Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

To blog or not to blog

Posted on 2010 01, 16 by christian

That IS the question. So I have this thing in me, this desire, to not be the guy who says  he’ll do something and then doesn’t. One reason I hate this so much is that, in fact, I am that guy sometimes. Whether it’s an illusion or a reality, I feel like I am a pretty busy guy. However, I am also a pretty visionary guy—I tend to think up new things to do all the time. Those two traits, I have found, don’t mix that well.

Sometimes I find myself starting things and not finishing them. OK. Not sometimes. Let’s say, a good deal more often than that. Like the book I want to write that has all the chapter titles on a file on my computer. Or the other book, with the same thing. Or the articles I’m reading through (and haven’t touched in a week) trying to teach myself how to code for iPhone apps. Or the basement I said I would clean over Christmas break.  Or the Christmas lights hanging outside on my house still!!! (It’s ok though, I do live in Elkton.) Or the car with the dead battery in my driveway that’s been there…well, as long as the basement has been dirty.

Yeah, the list goes on. Now, granted, we did just have a new baby. But for some reason, I just seem to never have enough time to do all I want to do. So then I end up doing things that need to get done on deadlines and forgetting the rest.

And that is why I balk at starting to blog again. Really. I know the masses are begging for it (ok, four people) but I sincerely doubt my ability to sustain it. I will get busy. New projects will emerge. I will run out of interesting things to say about myself (ok that’s not true, but the first two are!).

So here we go again, the roller coaster of blogging. Not sure if anyone will even read these for fear of being disappointed by my inability to remain consistent.  But we shall see. Now that I’ve written this . . . the basement?

Power outage

Posted on 2009 08, 09 by christian

Tonight we lost power for several hours. There are many things I don’t like about losing power. For one, as a kid it always terrified me, and even now as an adult it still unnerves me. It makes me feel on edge and less safe.

But most of all I hate that it knocks out my Internet. Evwrytime we lose power I have to go through this laborious process of resetting my modem. I don’t know why it won’t just turn back on and work like the lights, but it doesn’t.

So now I’m annoyed because I brought my laptop upstairs to write this and I can’t connect! Do I go downstairs when I’m all comfy in bed and fight with the modem? Or do I slowly type my blog on my phone. Such a lazy dilemma!!

I’m typing on my phone. The funny thing about typing on your phone is when you finish and look online your post is so much shorter than you thought! You feel like you’ve just typed a huge novel and really it’s less than 100 words! It just feels longer bcause every single word is a study in finger dexterity and patience. I hav found that the blog is officially finished when I get tired of endlessly backspacing to correct words. Like just there (no lie!) I tried to type correct and first got “coeert” and then on second effort it auto-corrected to “forest!!!”

Arg. The time has come. A frustrated blogger signs off In hopes of happier blogging tomorrow.