META: A stupid reason to stop blogging

The few of you who care may have noticed that I stopped blogging some time ago. There were several reasons for this, but perhaps the most important was a really stupid one…

You see, the thing is, I generally have a lot of uncompleted tasks. I'm one of those lame folks who takes on many more and much larger projects than they can reasonably finish. I feel guilty about this, of course, but it doesn't seem to slow me down much or often.

Anyway, back when I quit I had a really large backlog of really important work. Further, the folks I was supposed to be doing this work for might conceivably read my blog.

My reasoning went like this: If those folks I owe work to see me blogging instead, how does that look?

The fallacy here, of course, is that those folks really care why I'm not getting their work done. I have managed to complete or shed a bunch of it, and am back to merely way behind—the sabbatical has helped.

So I want to start blogging again. I will try to get some stuff out over the next few days. I'm not yet ready to make a big commitment about a regular updating schedule again; maybe I'm learning my lesson. Besides, November is National Novel Writing Month, and I'm just dumb enough to consider a serious try.

I have a billion other things to talk about but, hey, one topic per post. Looking forward to restarting the conversation. Friend of Bart

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Glad you're blogging again

Its nice to write. Its nice for others to hear things you're working on. Writing on regular basis helps one's writing skills become better (and refine your style) for bigger things like a book!! No matter that a chunk of time has passed by or that future chunks of time will pass by when you super crazy busy again. And when you think about it, it really does not take all that much time (5-10 minutes) well, depending on the content. Thats the time someone uses to take a break from their work at the end of a 1-2 hour stretch of work.

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