Listening Pattern

So for the past few weeks whenever I've been listening to my own library rather than streaming radio or news I have had shuffle turned off, and I am going through my library alphabetically. I am now approaching the end of C, and discovering just how much crap I have.

At the end of this exercise, I intend to get rid of anything I have one-starred. How well this works to clean out my inventory depends on how far into the alphabet I make it.

Write

Write frequently, write often. Write when you have nothing else to write about, write when you do, write down what you did for the day, jot down notes. These are things I've read and heard for years and either ignored or out-right defied. Then this morning, as I tried to compose the first Real Entry on The Other Blog, I sat stone-walled for a good 15 minutes, my mind a blank.

Writing is practice. Blogging, online journals, updates on social networking sites, even tweets on Twitter; all of these are practice, and something I should embrace if I want this to turn into anything real. More, writing Publicly opens one up to critique and, if you build an audience, demand. Demand and pressure for More, which of course is more practice.

I never really thought of writing this way before. The idea will take some getting used to...

Something something something something

Guess I need to start writing more and get in practice if The Other Blog is ever going to take off. Feels weird to be breaking my years of Internet Silence (discounting the Other other blog). I've been anti-blog/social networking/what-have-you for so long I don't know that I know anything else. But, Ideas. I try very very hard not to have them, but I did, so I have to act on it. And who knows where it could lead? The niche is there, the Desire is there, and, maybe, the Intent.

You know what I really hate?

So I've been mulling over creating a Things I Hate blog. Had the format mostly figured out, and decided to check the idea. A simple search for 'things i hate' showed a lot less blogs than I'd expected, so I decided the idea had merit. I come here to Blogger and proceed to set it up and lo, thingsihate.blogspot.com is unavailable. So I start thinking about other names; youknowwhatihate.blogspot.com, ihateitwhen.blogspot.com, you know, Variations On A Theme.

Then I saw this wee Powered By Blogger button, so, I clicked it. (That's what buttons are for.) And lo, I'm signed in to blogspot. So I have this blog apparently...