Lumberpick

I was looking at the archives/labels of my blog because I've been pretty depressed from the weather and really haven't had much energy to think of anything to write about. No motivation.

The whole blog concept is so cool though. Personally satisfying I guess. The free form of the blog entity is what I love. You can have a blog based on a specific topic, or your business, or whatever. I first started the whole thing cause I saw something on the news about them back in 2004 or 05. I posted a couple of times and then pretty much left it. I think Cherity raised an eyebrow when I told her what I was going to do. The idea of me and a journal maybe was funny to her? : ) I don't know. That was a long time ago.

So anyway, I left it alone (the blog) until I started running again and decided to turn the blog in to a training log. I unfortunately screwed up my knee and gave that up. Now I'm hoping to double it up as a possible biking log and whatever you already see it as now.

I started visualizing the possibilities of a blog when I read Paider's blog (see links) and realized since we live in Winona we could communicate what's going on with family that we don't get to see everyday. So the whole thing is a hodg-podg of stuff and that's what I like about it. It's for "whatever". It's also a huge help to communicate other stuff to everyone, like when Seb got run over by a car. The news was able to spread faster without anyone having to feel all freaked out cause they didn't know what was going on, because they could just read about it as it happened.

I've tried talking everyone in my family in to getting one (or at least hinted at it) and some have bit and others haven't. When all 6 of your siblings and parents and their families live across the country and have lives of their own, this medium just seems natural.

I love how the whole thing has taken off though. Most of the blogs I follow didn't exist last year at this time and I don't know if any of them existed when I started. And I love the dynamic variation of what people use them for. Rants, artwork, faith, family thoughts. You name it. Actually I have to confess I've totally become obsessive about following it all. Feedreaders, statcounters, following comments, learning bits of code. It's gotten a little insane and I also must confess that my wife is going to kill me soon for spending too much time on this thing and I can't blame her. I've told her it will all get better once I can get outside and the time change comes. Seriously! If I had a job offer somewhere in a more temperate climate with longer days year round I would be hard pressed not to do it. Heck! At this point I'd dig ditches to move somewhere else if it paid the bills. A lot of this has to do with the weather. I think, or at least joke, that genetically, I was meant to hibernate. This weather-indecued-depression-topic will play like a broken record every winter I'm sorry to say. I'm getting to the point where I would consider doing something drastic. After reading this post I've realized it's kinda boring but it took too long to type for me to delete it.