Hello Minimalism

So I have this problem. Procrastination. I set out to work on things and then never finish them. Most of the time, when I begin working on something, I’m well aware that I’m never going to finish it. Enter the new canned wordpress theme I just installed. And I’ll probably be tinkering around with more in the next few days till I find one I can stomach for at least a little while.

I’ve had this website for a few years now. It’s my baby. My poor, malnourished, often neglected, redheaded stepchild baby. I rarely update it. I’m fairly certain that no one even knows it actually exists, and honestly, a small part of me even enjoys that idea. I scribble in my trusty old composition notebook on a daily basis, I even post fairly melodramatic blogs on MySpace pretty regularly, but I always forget about my own little corner of the interwebs. I’m going to try and overcome this single tiny bit of my procrastination and force myself to post on here regularly, even if it is only a post to say “I’m posting simply for the sake of posting!”.

When I first got this website, it was supposed to be a place that I could experiment and learn the ins and outs of php and web development. Somewhere along the lines, it turned into a different kind of monster that I avoided like a kid skirting around doing their chores. Years later, I now maintain websites for a living but still fail to maintain my own. And I never did fully learn php :-) I’m hoping to somehow rekindle that passion for learning that I used to have. The wonder that would keep me awake till the wee hours of the morning trying to get a piece of code to work. Also, I hope to regain my voice. I have a mad desire to talk but feel I never have anything to say. An extrovert trapped in an introvert’s mind. Something I’ve begun to realize… if you always wait till you have something profound to say, you end up never saying anything at all.

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One Response to “Hello Minimalism”

RaVeN October 2nd, 2008 at 7:46 am

*I* know this site exists and I like to check it regularly to keep up with my friend whom I never get to talk to anymore. :) As you can see by my site, I am in the same boat or rarely updating but it is still my technical playground to play with java and php which has benefitted my REAL work because now our companyweb uses php and mysql and the main site now uses one of my javascript slideshows of which you can see more examples on my site’s ‘my sons’ pages. I’m a little more lazy tho… I cross post everything. When I do find something ‘profound’ or at least something that moved me enough from my stupor to write I post it on my site in a web page… in my forum… on myspace blog… sometimes myspace bulletin… and usually 1 or 2 other forums I belong too, depending on where my rant seems to fit in.
Anyways, I just wanted to say hi, a fleeting touch of fellowship in the vast tubes of our internets. To read what we write we aren’t really ‘alone’ but we are very adept at self-imposed exile. =)
Love you friend… :*

~Quoth the RaVeN~
http://kickme.to/ravenmaddox

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