Do you have a blog?

Recently Abram, my baby brother, texted me asking if I still had a blog. If you’re curious, you can peruse his blog here. But I thought that was a pretty good question.

The answer? I don’t know. What I do know is I’m completely burned out on the Friday Five. Over the last 3 years I’ve done just about one a week, and it’s become a bit of a drag. Frankly, it’s become tedious.

However, ironically I do miss telling little stories about the week, and I definitely miss sharing my thoughts and opinions.^[1]

So what now? Well, I’m not sure. I think going forward I’m going to try to post more just little things about life. I also think going forward I’m not going to try so hard to be perfect in every posting (outside of the Friday Five that is).

And who knows, maybe there will be the occasional Friday Five.

But for now, there is still a blog. It’s just going to change form a bit.

^[1] You say pontificating, I say sharing thoughts and opinions.

I’m not dead yet!

OK – So I haven’t been around lately. I’ve been distracted by life. Nothing serious, just friends, Rock Band and Mafia Wars on Facebook^[1]. There will be a Friday Five this week (I promise). Also later this week I will have all my pics up from Australia.

Thank you for being patient.

^[1] I’m never forgiving you for this Abram.

Controlling One's Online Persona

I mentioned at the end of the Friday Five (on Saturday) that I have a Twitter account. This led to a couple of people requesting to follow me on Twitter, and a realization of what Twitter is - it's a hybrid messaging/blogging/board service. I can't really explain it, but I get it.

As such, I dove in headfirst yesterday requesting to "follow" numerous users, which means I want to see what they post on Twitter. A handful of them requested to follow me, meaning they wanted to see what I post on Twitter. After all, that's really what it's all about - you see what they post, and they see what you post. And that's where the problem arose.

I requested to follow a few Twitter-ers who would be on the professional as opposed to the personal side of my life. And a couple of the Twitter-ers from the professional requested to follow me. Meaning they would see what I post.

No don't get me wrong - I don't post anything that's offensive, just not always very PC. I work very hard to maintain a separate persona when it comes to my professional life; it starts by using my full name in any communications with a client or would-be client and goes from there. You'll notice that outside of mentioning the city I essentially never mention here what class it is I taught unless it's something very cool like working a convention.

I just need someplace where I can just be me and not have to worry about censoring myself. Facebook, for instance, is a strictly personal thing for me. While I do have friends on Facebook who I've met in my professional life, they are people who know "the real me", are people I can trust, and thus people who I can loosen up with.

And now I have people requesting to follow me who I can't let my hair down with. Which means I need to make sure I have a clean separation between my personal and professional life online as well. As such, I need to set up a new Twitter account and ensure that separation.

General announcement

I wound up with a spam comment the other day. As a result, I enabled "moderation", which simply means I get an e-mail before a posting goes live. Please, feel free to comment. Just note that it may take a couple of hours before it shows up.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled nonsense.