Back To Blogging

Now that I have announced that, it has been some time since I have blogged on a regular basis (breaking all the blogger rules, I know) but I felt I had lost focus for this web site.  I have been blogging for other people, normally internal blogs and that kind of thing, but, for some reason, so it isn't like I am not blogging but this site seemed to have lost something.  I won't pretend to know what that was but I lost it.  The fire was gone.  Sure, I could pump out stuff like most blogs:

• "Wow, this is funny."
• "Hey, look what I found on Digg..."
• "Look, this picture/video/soundbyte is interesting.  Go check it out!"

But that didn't satisfy me at all.  I just would sit in front of the keyboard when my "blogging hour" hit and nothing would come.  False starts and frustration took over and I decided it was time to take a break.  (You'll notice that bloggers do this kind of thing from time to time.)  Actually, it wasn't that I decided to take the break but my body told me to  I guess I feel like my thoughts and my fingers lost a connection.  They were disconnected.  Each time I sat down to compose anything blog related, it was like my fingers were telling me to stop or refused to function.  I wish I had something more profound to say about it but, normally, it is something I have struggled with for some time.  A typical comment I would use is: "What's the point?"  Then, without much fanfare, I disappeared and left this site to linger.   Sounds very dramatic, doesn't it.

I tried some ideas - reformatting, making some plans to do other things: but I keep coming back to the blog.  But, they were typical attempts at reviving a blog and didn't really make me want to write.

Then, I missed my Rememberance Day blogging.  I didn't realize it on the day but this would hit me as something I should have done.  For the last couple of years, I have been watching Rememberance Day events and documenting some things about Rememberance Day.  It is something I enjoy doing and it is important to me.  But, I missed it this year and within a couple of days, I felt like I had let myself down.  It was a surprise but a welcome one.

Then, I remembered there was a book coming out.  And I haven't blogged in months - what kind of a hypocrite am I being?  I was busy with my company and the getting the book done but - wow, how could I not blog!

So, there you go.  My tale of woe (or boredom).  I'm back.