The Bottom Line

I created this account over the summer. Granted, this was probably not the most logical time to do such, considering that I hadn't been blogging for over a couple months. Throw in the fact that I was somehow convinced that I needed to get into games journalism, and was busy attempting to get my gaming blog off the ground, and didn't want to bother myself with just this day-to-day consuming stuff that I'd been doing for ever so long, and it doesn't seem to make much sense at ALL why I would set this up. I guess I just wanted the name before anyone else got it. I mean, it's not like I'll end up being one of those assholes that steals some highly obvious name the hasn't been taken, and then sell it for billions of dollars. This is blogger.com, not www.awildorgyoflesbians.com. Though, if that website isn't taken, I might be liable to do such. It's probably googled more than I'm willing to admit. Who knows?

Well, I just finally figured out to finally kill the delay in typing for BLOGGER, so, if the one of you that actually reads this (supposing that you exist) is having problems with the typing delay (supposing that you are) and want it to go away (supposing that you don't enjoy a several second typing delay) you need to hit "publish" and then edit the article. Sure, your friends might think you odd that you've published something blank, but at least you won't be up in arms about how you know you've typed something wrong, but just are waiting another five years for it to catch up.

Will I continue blogging? I don't know. I did xanga for almost a year...stopped for a few months...then picked it back up over the recent summer. Maybe it's because I'm really not sure why I was doing it. Everyone says the trite old saying that you "Have to do things for you and you alone." The problem is that I seem to be vastly dismayed when I am the only reader. It's like the actor when nobody sees his film, or the singer when nobody "bit torrents" their CD off the internet. Okay, maybe some of them are doing it for themselves, but there's no denying that you'd have to be fairly well off to be acting out of your own free will.

Other times I worried that I'd write something incriminating and the wrong person would see. Friends said that I only had to limit the blog viewers to myself, and then I'd be set. But, there we are, right back in the same place where we started: with no readers but myself. Then, of course, there's the issue of always managing to start my blogging interests again, whenever I had a vast amount of other things that needed to be attended to. But, in the end, blogging is still the fastest way for me to get my ideas out there. I write to slowly by hand, and there are few other blogging services out there that work as well as Blogger (note the nice endorsement great masters of the Google Empire...stock options would be wonderful).

Don't get me wrong, I still want to write and publish for the paper or something, but I'm no fool. I understand where the market is going. TV, Radio, everything is making the "slightly faster than I'm comfortable with" transition to the online market. Figure I might as well get a head start. And I won't deny, I'm quite proud of some of the online blogging that I've done. If I can find a way to haul all of that over from the dreaded Xanga servers, I will attempt such.

Well, I have class in about seven hours, and I'd best get some sleep.

I'll write soon (and, well, I'm almost certain such will happen,

Nick