I give in, Xanga. I hate to give in to something just because everyone else is doing it. But there have been times that I have been proved wrong. For instance, back in 1987 I played with an early version of Windows (v.2) but only because it was bundled with PageMaker, a Mac program that I had admired for awhile. Never did do anything with Windows, only booted it when I wanted to use PageMaker, mostly to show it off to a client. Then 3.0 came out and I finally jumped on, mostly because my boss told me that Windows was going to really boost our sales and I needed to get off DOS. I agreed, learned to master Windows, lost my job. Oh well.
Now I am experiencing the same thougths with this blog, or actually blogging as a whole. I have actually had this blog for over 4 years, although there have been tremendous gaps in adding to it. Well, just as I get pretty consistent I find that everyone in the family now has a blog over at Xanga. My brother-in-law has been telling me for months that I have to get a Xanga site, and even my eldest daughter has a site of her own. Now my dad has a site, as well as my beloved. So, I have finally decided to do a Xanga site as well. I struggled with what to do with another blog, because I really don't want to do something that everyone else does. I have seen some pretty pathetic blogs out there and I wanted to contribute. I didn't want another place to dump my mind (that is what this place is for!). So what to do. I decided that I would share with the world a secret passion that probably only my wife knew that I have, Haiku poetry. Probably not the type of thing that people who know me would guess that I am into, but it is truly something that I enjoy. I used to enter a daily Haiku contest at USATODAY, and think that I will start doing that again. There were many times when I thought that my entry was tons better, but I suspect that they can't read them all, I should have one at least once. So my newest blog is going to be dedicated to the fine art of Haiku, the poetry form which employs economy of words (something that I am notoriously bad at elsewhere). I think that I will try to enter the daily contest and post my results on my blog.
Now I am experiencing the same thougths with this blog, or actually blogging as a whole. I have actually had this blog for over 4 years, although there have been tremendous gaps in adding to it. Well, just as I get pretty consistent I find that everyone in the family now has a blog over at Xanga. My brother-in-law has been telling me for months that I have to get a Xanga site, and even my eldest daughter has a site of her own. Now my dad has a site, as well as my beloved. So, I have finally decided to do a Xanga site as well. I struggled with what to do with another blog, because I really don't want to do something that everyone else does. I have seen some pretty pathetic blogs out there and I wanted to contribute. I didn't want another place to dump my mind (that is what this place is for!). So what to do. I decided that I would share with the world a secret passion that probably only my wife knew that I have, Haiku poetry. Probably not the type of thing that people who know me would guess that I am into, but it is truly something that I enjoy. I used to enter a daily Haiku contest at USATODAY, and think that I will start doing that again. There were many times when I thought that my entry was tons better, but I suspect that they can't read them all, I should have one at least once. So my newest blog is going to be dedicated to the fine art of Haiku, the poetry form which employs economy of words (something that I am notoriously bad at elsewhere). I think that I will try to enter the daily contest and post my results on my blog.
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