Seven Reasons Why I Neglect My Blog:
1. Flickr. You see, while designing and maintaining a website is a lot of fun, and very rewarding personally, photography will always be my main squeeze. I spend hours just browsing Explore alone, and I love the sense of community Flickr has created for people like me all over the world. I spend a lot of my free time photographing, editing and uploading/browsing this website.
2. Laziness. Sorry guys, I’m just not that motivated. I also clearly lack the consistent ability to make the mundane events of my life interesting and/or humorous. That’s a once-in-a-while thing, dudes, so enjoy it when it happens.
3. Distractions. I’ll open my EE admin panel with the intention of posting a quippy, thought-provoking entry, only to notice something that’s been bugging me and needs fixing in my templates, or sit there and re-write my pages 4 times and still be unsatisfied. By then I’ve forgotten my little mental notes and resign the post to my drafts section. Procrastination is clearly a top priority in my life.
4. Conundrum. I’m still at odds with myself as far as what I want to do with this website, and it’s always in some bullshit transitory I’ll-fix-it-later state. I’d like to post larger photos on my actual blog, but that would mean getting rid of my sidebar. But then what? Shove it all down into some web 2.0 footer? See, I’m pretty indecisive.
5. Google Reader. I don’t have a ridiculous amount of RSS feeds to check everyday like someone I know, but the 16 or so that I do have are updated pretty regularly. And when they aren’t, and I’ve reached the End of the Internet, I refresh them anyway. Because I need a day job.
6. Compulsive Thoughtless Clicking. Have you ever reached the End of the Internet and just kept clicking the same links in your bookmark toolbar? Yeah, that happens a lot. I don’t even think about it, I just click away and pretend like I didn’t just see the same page 10 minutes ago. Wow.
7. Real Life Shit. This happens rarely, and even then it’s only marginally part of the reason I don’t post as much as I used to. Even on the busiest days it’s not difficult to sit down for 10 minutes and post a quick entry. But then I’d feel like I was cheating my readers and just wouldn’t do it either way. Ridiculous.