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No More Bad News
Mar. 11th, 2007 04:55 pmOkay, folks, there's now officially been enough bad news around these parts:
* Grandma: stroke (not too bad, it looks like so far)
* friend: human tumbleweed syndrome, with not enough pads
* friend of friend: dead pet
That's three! That's enough! If you wanted a turn, I'm sorry, but you've missed your chance.
**
I have solved a blogging dilemma. On the one hand, blogging is taking too much time. On the other hand, I like it. I could reduce blogging to six days a week. But a lot of times the days I don't want to blog turn out to be days I'm glad I've blogged afterwards.
So, I have decided to try to spend only a half-hour a day on blogging. In fact, I started trying out this decision last Tuesday. The first two days, "trying" consisted of observing that I was spending much much more than a half hour. But after that I was able to get pretty close to a half hour.
One strategy has been to write about fewer subjects. If I have a lot of subjects, I can save some for a later date. Well, okay, that's my only strategy. Another possible strategy is that if I have a long topic I can break it up into multiple parts. I may also allow myself some exceptions. But now I'm able to get more other things done (mostly going to bed at a reasonable hour, hoping to heal my nagging ankle), and that's really nice.
I'm sure some of you will be pleased that monster entries are going to be much more rare in the future. And for the rest of you--sorry. You'll still be getting some kind of fix from me each day, though.
* Grandma: stroke (not too bad, it looks like so far)
* friend: human tumbleweed syndrome, with not enough pads
* friend of friend: dead pet
That's three! That's enough! If you wanted a turn, I'm sorry, but you've missed your chance.
**
I have solved a blogging dilemma. On the one hand, blogging is taking too much time. On the other hand, I like it. I could reduce blogging to six days a week. But a lot of times the days I don't want to blog turn out to be days I'm glad I've blogged afterwards.
So, I have decided to try to spend only a half-hour a day on blogging. In fact, I started trying out this decision last Tuesday. The first two days, "trying" consisted of observing that I was spending much much more than a half hour. But after that I was able to get pretty close to a half hour.
One strategy has been to write about fewer subjects. If I have a lot of subjects, I can save some for a later date. Well, okay, that's my only strategy. Another possible strategy is that if I have a long topic I can break it up into multiple parts. I may also allow myself some exceptions. But now I'm able to get more other things done (mostly going to bed at a reasonable hour, hoping to heal my nagging ankle), and that's really nice.
I'm sure some of you will be pleased that monster entries are going to be much more rare in the future. And for the rest of you--sorry. You'll still be getting some kind of fix from me each day, though.