6 posts tagged “blogging”

OK, that's a bit dramatic.  It has only been 4 days since my last post.  I've been dealing with sickness and computer issues that have kept me from my blog. I'm on my lunch break now, so I thought I would do a quick post or two, but I'll be doing a big post tonight or this weekend to review my week.  There'll be something to entertain (and bore) everyone.  It has been quite a week. 

It has come to my attention that I there haven't been any comments on my last three posts.  This has caused me to take pause and think.  The comment rate on my blog was actually on the rise, and now it has dropped off the face of the planet.

I guess this whole thing has me feeling more uninteresting than normal.  It has even caused me to ignore my blog lately.  I really don't even know why.  I blog for me, so it isn't that I am an attention whore.  I'm not going to make things juicer to try and seem more interesting.  I am who I am.

I guess my biggest concern is that I’ve said or done something to offend people.  If I am just boring, I can live with that.  Heck, I live with that fact everyday.  I'm a programmer.  We don't have a reputation of being exciting.  Still, thinking that I may have driven people away with my words is much more bothersome.

I used to have blog where I got excited when I received a single comment.  It was more of a personal journal, and that didn't bother me a bit.  My wife and brother are still reading my blog, and that's all the motivation I need, so I am not even sure why this has been on my mind.

Don’t feel compelled to comment to this post with explanations.  That isn't what this is about.  The only motive here is to share what is on my mind.  Honestly, I'm not so needy that I need comments from strangers to feel validated, but it certainly helps to know people are listening.

I can’t believe it has been 6 days since I blogged something.  It doesn’t seem like it has been that long. 

The reason for my absence is pretty simple: family.  Jennifer, Grace, and Logan have been consuming all my time lately.  I am not complaining though, because that’s how it should be.  God forbid I neglect my family to blog.

Our precious little Logan.  As I’ve mentioned, he is a demanding baby.  He has been requiring one of us hold him almost constantly.  It was a bit better yesterday, but up until then, I’ve been doing my part to hold him when I get home.  Jennifer needs the break so she can get stuff done and eat her dinner without him in her lap.

Grace has been a toddler.  She needs a lot of attention and is coming to terms with the fact that we’re not running a freakin’ Burger King!  She can’t have it her way, at least, not all the time.  Lately her thing has been eating a light dinner and wanting her snacks immediately after she finishes.  Of course, she doesn’t like it when we insist she eat her dinner instead of her favorite crackers.  So, there’s been a lot of whaling and gnashing of teeth over that issue. 

Jennifer hasn’t been taking up a lot of time, but I have to make sure I don’t neglect my time with her.  I don’t know why it is so hard to make time to spend with her.  I always feel guilty when I don’t.  Just seems that when I finally have a few moments of time that I can spend on something of my choice, I get wrapped up in it and suddenly an hour or two has flown by.  That's when the guilt sets in.

So, there hasn’t been a lot of time for blogging.  There hasn’t been a lot of time for much of anything.  My Wii is still packed in a bag from where I took it to my parent’s house this weekend.  Between taking care of our two kids and doing the things that life demands, it feels my whole life is on rails and screaming down tracks at break neck speed lately.

Blogging has pretty much taken a back burner to everything lately. I have a lot of things going on right now, and I am staying pretty busy. We are having Thanksgiving at our place next week. Originally we were expecting as many as 15 people, but it turns out we’ll be lucky to have more than 4 people (besides ourselves) show up.

I can’t believe Christmas as going to be here in a little over a month. Every year Jennifer and I say we’ll start shopping early, but we never do it. We wind up having to buy all our gifts in the last month. Neither one of us could really think of anything we wanted for Christmas this year, so we are talking about buying a new recliner. Our existing recliner is an eye sore. We bought the leather recliner we have about 5 years ago.  We had also gotten a cat not long before that, and we named her Piper. One weekend, we decided to go out of town and leave Piper at our apartment with our new recliner. We thought everything would be OK.  Up until then, Piper had left the chair alone. When we got home, we discovered that Piper had decided to chew the thing up from top to bottom. Yes, I said chew. When we first saw the results we assumed the obvious: she had clawed it. There may have been some of that too, but over the years we discovered that it was chewing that did the chair in. We got part of the chair reupholstered at one point because my wife was convinced Piper never messed with the chair anymore. Well, we discovered she preferred perfect leather upholstery. Once she had chewed it up, it apparently lost its appeal. I’ve kept the chair for this long because we put so much money into it, I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of it. Besides, it was ugly, but it still worked. That changed a year or so ago with it stopped reclining. So now its not only an eye sore, but it doesn’t work anymore.

Most people tell me we should have gotten rid of our cat when she chewed up the chair the first time, but we kept Piper until this past summer. She was getting meaner and meaner over the years and wasn’t adjusting to Grace. Piper could have been mean to almost anyone she wanted and Jennifer would not have cared, but when she started hissing at Grace, Jennifer turned on her. The only person in the world that loved that cat decided it was time for her to go. I’ll save the story of getting rid of her for a later date, but it involves an empty potato sack, piano wire, a cinder block and a little event we refer to as “dunking day”. I am joking, of course. We left her at an animal shelter and like to think someone fond of possessed animals took her home.

As it turns out I believe I have discovered a use for my Vox blog.  My wife started telling people in my family about my WordPress blog a few months ago. As a result, my WordPress blog has turned into "The Family Blog".  I pretty much tell stories my family will like and occasionally put some original thoughts out there that aren't too exciting.  Meanwhile, I fret over putting stuff out there that will cause people in my family to either be offended or realize that I am completely insane.  The other night I wanted to tell a story about an experience I had at my grandmother's house, but really couldn't because my grandmother reads my blog.  Not that I was going to trash her, but it might upset her to know I lied to spare her feelings.  I didn't really like feeling I couldn't share because I thought it was a pretty funny story.  So that is where my Vox blog comes in.

I guess if I post it on the Internet I should do so knowing they could find this blog at anytime.  I'll accept that possibility, but you guys would have to know my family to know just how incredibly unlikely that is.  I'm sure most of you are probably thinking, "Geez man, have some balls and get over it. Just say what's on your mind."  Probably would be the better thing to do, but I figure I'd rather keep the peace then hear about how out of touch and naive I am about the world and how my generation knows nothing about the Nazis (which is something my dad really said to me once).  That's not true.  I know they hated Jews, wore little mustache's and drove VW Bugs.

I don't really know how much I'll be putting here.  I have some friends who use Vox which is why I am setting up this account.  I might even use Vox to network a little.  Right now I barely have time to keep up with my one blog, so I doubt I'll be blogging here much, but who knows?  Maybe I'll find a use for it.

Anyway, my real blog can be read at http://whattheworld.wordpress.com.