Trumpets and Verbiage

If you've ever paid attention to this blog, you've probably noticed a few things about it and I. (New readers, these aren't spoilers: read on.) I have a sophisticated sense of rhetoric, but often forget to spell check. I think food is dandy. And I update infrequently and irregularly.

Very infrequently. Very... very infrequently. Like, embarassingly infrequently. Like, I-didn't-notice-they-had-taken-my-blog-offline-for-billing-dilenquency infrequently.

....damnit.

Whats more, in brief review of past posts I've discovered two things. I write a lot more than I post; every time I have one of these absences, I come back with trumpets and verbiage about how I'm Back For Real, This Time! It's been said before, but I'll say it again: damnit.

This time, I promise nothing but higher transparency, starting with the following contemplation:

I've got four huge unfinished posts in indefinite cold storage because I haven't been able to finish a-one of them. I haven't posted anything of worth or merit in a long time. Why? What's going on? Do I just suck too much for the internet?

I see three problems:

1. Good blogging takes either self discipline or a giddy love of blogging. I have mild guilt and a cool enjoyment of blogging. I'll have to change one or the other of those.

2. I've been trying to force-feed myself bananas and write about it for too damn long in the name of this blog. It hasn't worked; I don't like the things. I need to do other stuff for this blog than eat foods I hate.

3. This is the big one: everything I've tried to write in the last year runs in to the same, overwhelming issue: time. I've written four different treatises which all, in some way, orbit the same issue without ever dealing with it. All four are crippled or unworkable. Forgive this rhetorical gyration, but none of those essays are about what they're about -- they're tangential to their own points, and that makes them pretty crappy. Even as somebody with a love of good oblique writing, I can't take this "nothing is acutally said" thing I've got going on.

My blog hosting service recently (*cough* a year-and-a-half ago) upgraded their service capabilities. For some reason, one of the neglected features in the old version was the ability to put a hyperlink in a blog post leading to a different blog post on the same blog. This has changed; we are Catching Up with the Times (welcome to 2003!). I've found my pet topics: food and Time (hereinafter with a capital T when it's The Topic of Time In General). I've been trying to cope with Time by writing one freaking huge essay that'll take care of everything in one go. Sadly, I think that essay is, at least for now, beyond me -- I don't have the resources or the skill.

But this is The Intarwob. I am empowered with Hyperlinks and Good Internal References. I'm going to try -- no promises, this time -- to tackle these topics, Food and Time, in a different way. Something a little more Semantic Web, a little less Publishable Treatise. We'll see how it shakes out, eh? I'm optimistic.

Comments

[Elsbeth]

Yay for Ross writing again! Even though I live with you and talk to you everyday, there's something about reading your writing that I just love. Perhaps its that you write excellently.... hmm....