Blogging Update

Excuse me for a while; I’m going to be busy patting myself on the back and feeling good. I managed to come back and have another go at this whole blogging thing a couple months back and look at things now. You see how much we did last year in all our combined efforts? Eleven posts! I’ve posted three times as much in the space of two months, and I’m not likely to stop any time soon either.

But here’s where my dark secret comes in; I never really intended to do any of this. The first post was just me typing lots because I had run out of things to write in a story. It was pent up frustration sucking away a couple of hours as I hammered at the keys to feel better. There wasn’t any grand plan to keep posting as often as I could for as long as I could. I was just bored and irritated. Turns out I type lots when bored and irritated (and if there’s ever more definitive proof I should turn it into a job I haven’t found it). The fact that things kept rolling afterwards was more or less a fluke.

The first day I typed up something like three or four pages worth of random crap and felt a bit better, but y’know I wasn’t even near to finished with things I could talk about. And suddenly, here I was in a typing mood again. So I just kept making posts. I’d like to say I made some sort of secret compact with myself, that I must try to make at least four posts a week forever more or some such, but that simply wasn’t the case. I knew I couldn’t force myself to work so I didn’t even try. For the first week or three I kept waiting to run out of drive or topics, to get bored of the whole ordeal and for the blog to die again. It hasn’t happened though. And trust me, there’s no one more surprised at that than I am.

Though I must clarify here; it’s not as if I hit some magical switch because I wasn’t looking at blogging like a job anymore. No, I just seemed to get into a routine of sorts. I feel like all this came out of that first couple week stretch in which I genuinely just had a lot of things on my mind and wanted to talk about them all. The days I don’t blog have some long irritable hour that inevitably crops up in them in which I feel like I should blog. When you take that and combine it with the odd pang of guilt to a commitment I never made you find my typing once more. Even on days when there’s not really anything to talk about, like today.

I mean, what can I say? It’s sunny. We still want to make videos and still haven’t. People have annoying schedules. That’s it for your news portion of the day.

Anyways, I just wanted to say I’m happy with how this is going. I’d like to keep making posts for our strong Ukrainian viewing audience. Maybe someday we’ll even get some one to post a comment. If not? Well, if the past couple months is any indication I’ll keep posting regardless. I know I’ve long since passed the threshold where I’m free to talk about anything I want, specifically because I’ve typed so much about such inane crap that there’s no one who’ll actually read through all I’ve made, bar maybe Josh but I think I finally succeeded in scaring him off a week or two ago. At this point I’d like to just keep typing, so I shall.