For this blog, silly, not my own. That’s not something I’ll be sharing here.
I was definitely trying to figure out why I wanted to have a blog. A host of little reasons, although I couldn’t figure out how many of them really added up to something bigger than my basic privacy leanings. Hence a dearth of postings, except when an occasional muse comes along or some cool geekery happens.
I want to keep a blog to keep up with my friends. That’s actually backwards: having a blog might enable my friends to keep up with me. But that’s almost as good as keeping up with them, and it’s certainly a start to something more than this winter hibernation that we’ve gone into once again. Admittedly, having a toddler also sucks up a huge amount of time and really changes your priorities and schedule. But I definitely feel a little unconnected with some of the important people out there.
So that’s a good reason to keep a blog. Again, a self-serving one, for no matter how fun it is to write stories – either ones that anyone can read, or those special ones that require translation by those few friends who can actually translate Shane-thought – that’s a wholly different perspective of if any of those friends actually keep reading this. In a blog, you don’t know if your friends start reading and then say the equivalent of “Yes, Shane” and go on to something else. Hopefully I can be amusing enough that some of them might even email me back! (Just a few of you – but you know who you are… always too busy)
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