Screw the conventional blogging wisdom (ie. "don’t apologize or otherwise even acknowledge that you haven’t been posting"). This is not an apology, just an update of sorts. If nothing else, it’s for me, so I can keep tabs on just where the days have gone.
- Carla and I decided, for reasons emotional and financial, to put our house on the market.
- Our cat, Gladice, went on to the great mouse hunt in the sky after 17 years.
- We moved in with
my mother-in-lawa nice older lady who kindly offered to rent half her house to us. - I started posting more and more little updates to Twitter and Facebook, and as a result have seemingly had less to say on the blog proper. (If you’re reading this from Facebook, it might alleviate your confusion to know that Facebook is auto-importing posts from my blog as notes.)
- I started becoming more interested in making things. Not even necessarily writing songs – just creating. Pencil sketches, guest posts on others’ blogs, ugly PSD mockups of fake band websites…when the time is right, I may share this stuff (or at least the stuff that’s not currently public), but for now the process of making it is good enough.
- I lost some momentum on the songwriting front, which usually happens when life gets in the way. But the study is now arranged and my music equipment set up, so that should change soon.
- And oh, the social engagements. Concerts, ballgames, once-in-a-lifetime Geek singularity events, random get-togethers with friends…considering the circumstances, it’s been a good summer.
And now that I’ve caught you all up (and by “you all,” of course, I mean “me”), I may just resume blogging about everything and nothing.
I may just.
I’ve noticed the same thing about blogging and Facebook. It’s almost as if Facebook has killed the personal blog–even my own! Very few of my friends post on their blogs anymore. There’s some downside to it, though. For one, since most Facebook pages aren’t private, there’s no way to meet people that you aren’t really “friends” with. I have several blogs that I visit who are “Internet only” friends; we’ve never actually met in person. And, I met them through their blogs. If they were only using Facebook, I would’ve never met them. Also, the archiving/searching of Facebook is horrible/non-existent. “Where are those photos I posted three months ago?” Good luck finding them.