Damn, those crickets are loud
Fuck me! It’s been a while since I posted here, eh.
That’s because I had a little epiphany that made me decide to be more ‘in the present’. Yes, blogging relates to that. How? Think of it as the text-based equivalent of a camera: to take a photo, you have to have enough foresight to have the camera out; or walk around with the camera in hand, ready to pounce on any picture moment. So the blogging equivalent is walking round seeing everything through the eye of the blog instead of my own. As in, when doing something, I’d think about how it would fit into my blog – rather than actually doing it. It sounds retarded, because surely I could just do whatever and just happen to write about it later, but I don’t work like that. The blog would be sitting on my shoulder the whole time, whispering about how cool whatever I was thinking about doing would write up. So I wouldn’t feel like I owned any particular thought.
Why this in mind, then, you may wonder why I decided to embark on a Twitter crusade last week. Isn’t that, oh, exactly the same thing? Turns out: yes.
For a week, I pledged to make a daily tweet to see if there was something about the service I was missing that could only be garnered by regular usage of the micro-blogging service.
There’s not, but I did take a major positive away from the experience: I should blog more. Not this micro-blogging crap, but proper full size blogging. If only due to the fact that I’m not doing a hell of a lot of paid work, so I should keep on my literary toes.
So I’ll be doing my best to post more often, and have a list of blog topics I will mine through over the next few days to bring this puppy up to speed – so you can be in my present, too.
That’s because I had a little epiphany that made me decide to be more ‘in the present’. Yes, blogging relates to that. How? Think of it as the text-based equivalent of a camera: to take a photo, you have to have enough foresight to have the camera out; or walk around with the camera in hand, ready to pounce on any picture moment. So the blogging equivalent is walking round seeing everything through the eye of the blog instead of my own. As in, when doing something, I’d think about how it would fit into my blog – rather than actually doing it. It sounds retarded, because surely I could just do whatever and just happen to write about it later, but I don’t work like that. The blog would be sitting on my shoulder the whole time, whispering about how cool whatever I was thinking about doing would write up. So I wouldn’t feel like I owned any particular thought.
Why this in mind, then, you may wonder why I decided to embark on a Twitter crusade last week. Isn’t that, oh, exactly the same thing? Turns out: yes.
For a week, I pledged to make a daily tweet to see if there was something about the service I was missing that could only be garnered by regular usage of the micro-blogging service.
There’s not, but I did take a major positive away from the experience: I should blog more. Not this micro-blogging crap, but proper full size blogging. If only due to the fact that I’m not doing a hell of a lot of paid work, so I should keep on my literary toes.
So I’ll be doing my best to post more often, and have a list of blog topics I will mine through over the next few days to bring this puppy up to speed – so you can be in my present, too.
Welcome back - missed ya.
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DAVEY-DAVE! I had no idea you were lurking round! I would have updated ages ago had I known. Will try to keep it steady for ya sunshine
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