The Curse of Other People

I would say that the hardest part of keeping any blog is what to put in it. That's the problem everybody seems to have, right? "A blog sounds like fun, but I never know what to say." Or even better, "My life is too boring. Who would read about it?" 

Well, I don't know who would read about my life, but I know people do. But the hard part about blogging anything isn't that one would lead a boring life. Come on. No one is that uninteresting. You might feel that way, but the biggest problem in blogging your interesting and uninteresting items is that you usually have other people around to tell about it, and once you've told your interesting story to one person, you don't tend to want to tell it again unless it's really, really good.

So while you might tell everyone about the overturned car on the expressway, you might only mention that fascinating discussion on building a virtual machine that you heard only with the guy sitting next to you. The promotion is spread all over town while the fact that you managed to clear 24Gb of space last night or lost 16 pounds gets lost in the day once it comes out once.

Such is that curse of other people. I know the Queen spends literally hours on the phone talking to people and telling them absolutely everything that goes on. I chat with her and Optimus Prime and The Engineer, and it remains the same curse of not having anything left to blog once I've told it. It becomes a matter of remembering all those events and placing them here and telling others about them. 

Can I promise to do that? No, but I can promise to try. I really don't have any vices that I need accountability for, or that I need to put out there. My life continues on like a little train, dutifully chugging along, but not making any major waves. I do have a lot of interesting things that I'll probably start putting out there since I do want my share of boasting. Also, with Christmas coming up, there are a ton of interesting and quite geeky things out there as well.

Oh well. So I've discussed the mystery of blogging again and why people (mainly me) have trouble with it. I say again that I'll give this a go, and stop whining about not doing it. There've been a few things I'll probably backdate to begin with....