Need to write

Brian Bex once told me i should keep a journal.  You can look him up, he is kind of an important guy, so his advice should not lightly be cast aside.  A journal makes sense but this is not what i will be writing about here.  If you want tot understand why i, or you, should keep a journal talk to Brian he is accessible; or you can reed any of the books in the Laundry series by Charles Stross.  Bex and Stross can more eloquently or pragmatically explain the value of a journal.  Suffice it to say they are right and i am wrong for not keeping one.

An attorney i know here in town has kept a journal of all of his trials.  This is a great idea and i wish that we'd had the conversation concerning it fifteen years ago.  I will be sure to direct new attorneys to speak with him about his journal.  But again i am digressing.

This is not about journals, this is about not writing.  I seem to be spending more effort in this blog writing about not writing than just writing. Being busy is just one of many excuses i could raise, but what it really boils down to is a lack of discipline.  I know i should write more.  When i look back at the older entries here it amuses me to no end.  I am cheating my self, and you dear reader, when i do not write.

I also need to exercise.  I have lame excuses for not doing that as well.  But the excuses are no longer going to be enough.  For the last several weeks i have felt the need, almost like a craving, to impose more discipline in my life.  For the last three years i have imposed insufficient discipline upon myself. The increase in my waist size and decrease in the volume of my writings confirm that i have not be rigorous enough in my self control.

I am putting this in writing as a means of holding myself more accountable.   I will write more.  I will use my damn treadmill for its intended purpose rather than its auxiliary clothes hanging function.  I will do these hings because it will make me a better person.  Last night i explained to a number of children and a few you adults Plato's theory that only a just man can be happy.  I have been pretty happy of late, but i cannot claim to have been truly just.  Given that i accept Plato's theory, i have not been truly happy.  There is a greater happiness that i am denying myself right now and it is time for that to stop.

I will make a concerted effort to better chronicle my thoughts and observations.  This blog is akin to a journal and is likely as close as i will come to keeping one.  Although this blog is primarily an exercise in solipsistic self-indulgence, it still occasionally is read by others and commented upon.  Some of those comments cause growth in the way i think, act, or interact.  Increasing the output of this blog will increase to opportunity for growth and put me further down a useful path.  At least that is one hoped for outcome.  In any event exercising another dimension of disciple will prove to be its own reward.

Special thanks go to Kris, Adam, Thom S., Heather H., and as always my beautiful wife Erin.

Later

Bob

Who keeps reading this?

This blog is not very active.  It has been six months since i posted anything.  But i check in from time to time and look at the stats for the blog.  Odd thing, someone keeps reading it.  But i don't know who.

The stats say for the last month the primary viewers are from Latvia and Slovenia.  Not sure what brings them here.  Seems to mostly be the Tommy Seebach video though.  That is the third most viewed entry.    Winter Solstice Post and Long Time No Post are the first and second most viewed posts.  Those two are probably bookmarked by some of you to find this blog.

Anyway if you find you way here please post a comment.  I'd probably write more if i had some incentive in the form of an appreciative audience.  Lately i have been a little too busy to properly court my Muse and so i have consequently lacked inspiration.  I was going to write something this week about buying Pop Tarts, but i got side tracked.  Then i had too much work to do getting ready for a trial to write anything.  I should be going to bed right now because i have to write an appeal tomorrow and still have some house work to do.

If any of you care TFW is updating and i have given them some content.  Also Aaron Aaaronson will being doing a 2012 Game Store review for TFW.  Mike is planning some stuff too.  Hard to believe we spent a few years doing original content regularly enough to have a cadre of loyal fans.

Anyway if you are here leave a comment, i am interested in what you find interesting.  Especially the Europeans who drop by.


Later

Bob