One of the problems with maintaining this blog is that I have so many other online things I like to do that taking time to write here every day robs time from these other pursuits. I try to take pictures of my real-world projects and post them either in my private galleries (not all are public), or on Flickr. When I post stuff on Flickr, I always try to add some text description to the images and they really become blog entries of their own. This is pretty time consuming, so I try to only post stuff there when I’m willing to take the time to comment on them. Not to mention taking time to contribute a couple stories on Non_Prophet while he was away. I also spend a goodly amount of time on the care and feeding of several other websites - each having it’s own unique focus. Some are sites I maintain for clients (mostly small business ventures), but they don’t require much time except once in a while. The Celtic re-enactment site I maintain is a massive beast with over 85 members and I’ve been spending a lot more blogging time there lately. Also, I’ve been doing a lot of software development at home for my employer’s website as we’ve been planning to add some new features and haven’t decided which direction to go in yet. I haven’t made any new Youtube videos available in months, though I’m still getting lots of views and comments on them. I’d really like to commit to writing here again every day because keeping a journal is something I’ve been doing since 1980 and it’s rewarding in a narcissistic way. I’m just virtually out of time!

My New Years resolution, now nearly abandoned, wasn’t to lose weight (already did that last year!) or to exercise more (I’ve got the serious mountain biking jones now), or eat better (not difficult when your wife is a great cook). Rather, for this year I decided I was going to pimp my website and spend this year writing something every day, submitting comments on other sites, making contacts, etc. in order increase traffic on my main site with the goal of eventually starting to advertise, or sell through the site. Gah! This made running my blog so much like a day job I quickly tired of it all. January was pretty successful in that I wrote some interesting stories, had some good conversations on other sites and drew lots more eyeballs on my pages. But I can’t seriously keep up that amount of output for the rest of the year! Since this site is only one of about 12 that I maintain, it’s just too crazy. For those of you who lurkers out there (and bless my logs I know you’re out there!) who have been following my posts over the last 5 years - I’m not giving up, but I’m going to have to find some kind of more realistic balance here More on this as I decide what I’m going to do.