Susie’s at knitting camp, and I have some time to myself.
To celebrate / experiment / shift gears, I’m going to try not posting to Twitter or Facebook until she gets back.
I think it’ll be much harder than I think. Who knows—maybe the pressure will build and build until finally I snap and start blogging regularly again. Or maybe I’ll just post some photos to Flickr. I have a bit of a backlog. 😊
Incidentally, I started writing this post because I wanted to say “Cheese at room temperature is so much better than cold cheese” on Twitter, and then realized I couldn’t. So maybe there is something to the idea that Twitter siphons off blogging mojo.
Oh, and if this post isn’t interesting enough for you, go read my last post—it received more (mostly private) positive feedback than anything else I’ve written to date in 2010.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
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