Hi! How have you been?
I'm not so great with this blogging thing of late, though I don't feel bad about that. Even in the beginning, I never *wanted* a blog! I wanted to do what I was doing - talking about places I was going and stuff I was doing - but with a content management system. I wanted updating and archiving and indexing to be less painful. I liked the idea of comments. So I tried to install the then-current version of Movable Type onto my server (and screwed up, and got help from Markus and Chris Lawson to make it work). I futzed around with templates and style sheets, because I like to play with stuff like that even though I have no natural aptitude for it. I liked what I ended up with, enough to contemplate reworking the formatting on all of the older trip reports to use the same style sheets and maybe even index them using the CMS. I didn't find that so interesting, so I didn't go very far with this.
I like talking about my weekend trips. My day to day existence is filled with things and people that don't really care to hear about yet another campsite, or my progress with ski waxing, or similar. That's not a complaint, and it's not like I don't have people who are interested in all of that in my life (and you've seen many of them on these pages). I *like* it this way. I like how my life has different categories, and mostly, I don't like to talk about any category other than what I did on my goof-off time here. I have, on occasion, ranted about topics near my heart that tangentially overlap with work, but mostly, I even stay away from discussing those on-line.
So lately I've been quiet. I *have* been doing stuff outside, but not a lot. It just means that this particular part of my life is on hiatus (not for long! oh no!), and all those other things - work and interpersonal relationships and navel-gazing - they're not part of this blog. Nothing bad has been happening. I'm not sitting in some deep dark hole of depression. I'm just kind of busy. And once you get out of the habit of uploading stuff, it just seems like *so* much work, you know?
Also, there are not very many hours in the day to goof off, when it comes right down to it. My goof-off time has primarily been devoted to getting my money's worth out of my gym membership. Gyms would not make much profit if everyone got as many hours per dollar out of them (in the past three months, I'm probably at 0.75 hours / 1$ membership fee), but that will change the second it's nice enough to play outside. I think the gym is boring, and even more boring to talk about. It's just something to do to make the not-boring stuff more fun, because the things I like to do are more fun when you're fit.
Now go look at the cuteness that is my nephew, his page gets updated every day (I make two guest appearances last weekend). I'm not into babies, generally, but given how my sister is wonderful and great, it's no surprise that her baby is too (and he has a cool papa too). But Sebbie did give me this horrible cold that stole my weekend (but left me with time to update my own blog), so it's not like he's *perfect*.
Posted by Johanna at April 1, 2007 06:48 PM