Thursday, April 09, 2009

Love hate relationship with blogging

It's one of those times again were I go through the evaluation of "is it really worth it to keep up my blog?". To give some perspective, I read anywhere from 5-10 blogs daily. Most are technical blogs, a couple are just fun blogs, and then the two or so web comics that give me a little chuckle. The difference between them and me? Well two-fold and related. People read their content, and they have content worth reading. I'm not sure how much of it is original content, or how much is just regurgitated from other blogs /work / school, etc.. Wherever it's coming from, I enjoy reading it, but them I'm left with little to say for myself.

With the frequency that people blog, I sometimes wonder how they have time to blog, do the thing they're blogging about, and do things that have nothing to do with blogging (work, sleep, eat). This all comes around to my poor personal time management skills and then maybe reflecting them on others.

I'm curious how people manage their own time. I don't suppose this is something that is explicitly taught by parents, maybe it is. I know they're quite a few books on the subject, but reading one, rather even picking the right one, seems like it would take even more of an investment in the time I already feel like I don't have.

I guess my biggest problem is that I'm just plain ol' lazy. I should really admit that right out front. After I get done with work, get done with the gym, and figure out what I'm planning on eating over the next 10 hours or do, I don't feel like doing much else. Watch a little tv, stare at the computer screen deciding if there's something else worth staring at, things like that. I'd like to say that I will watch less TV, but I know that's not about to happen. It's far too entertaining and easy to do for me to stop. But I do think I can try to watch less "spontaneous" tv.

I know this was a random, unorganized blog, but typing it out at least helps me. Too bad I can erase before I post. There's some funny stuff in the liner notes.