EGADS
...as in, "Egads, it's been forever since I updated my LJ!", and all on account of trying to find someone I haven't seen in a really long time (even longer than I haven't updated my LJ, no less). I found her, behind a closed door with the blinds drawn over the windows, but I knocked and she let me in. So I've been catching up on her life of the past year or so. It feels oh-so-shameful to have lost track of a friend for so long. I don't feel so bad about it when I lose track of a friend who is just plain hard to find (ie, no real online existence, and no listed information anywhere), but when it's someone who has a regular online presence, then it's due only to my sloth in clicking a few links in a web browser, and that's just pitiful on my part.
On a few occasions in the past, I suddenly realized that I hadn't ACTUALLY spoken to said friend for a long time. I was up-to-date on her life, as she chose to share it, because I read her online journal, and so I felt as if I had been speaking to her every day. And then I would look at the last email exchange and realize that many months had gone by. This time, though, I hadn't even read her journal in nearly a year or so.
And in the process of catching up on her LJ, I discovered how long it had been since I'd updated MY LJ...
I really ought to consider blog consolidation. Many people use debt consolidation because they have to pay so many different bills every month that they lose track of them. Debt consolidation makes it easier to pay everything at once, via a single payment to one entity, and usually saves some money in the process. Blog consolidation, I guess, would work in a similar fashion. Instead of logging into and out of several different blogs and online journaly things, I could just use ONE, and then instead of updating one and neglecting the others for extended periods of time, I would have one central online location for all of my online thoughts, and I would save time and... well, I would appear to have more of a life. Kind of. I would appear to update my blog more often, which may actually imply the opposite...
On a few occasions in the past, I suddenly realized that I hadn't ACTUALLY spoken to said friend for a long time. I was up-to-date on her life, as she chose to share it, because I read her online journal, and so I felt as if I had been speaking to her every day. And then I would look at the last email exchange and realize that many months had gone by. This time, though, I hadn't even read her journal in nearly a year or so.
And in the process of catching up on her LJ, I discovered how long it had been since I'd updated MY LJ...
I really ought to consider blog consolidation. Many people use debt consolidation because they have to pay so many different bills every month that they lose track of them. Debt consolidation makes it easier to pay everything at once, via a single payment to one entity, and usually saves some money in the process. Blog consolidation, I guess, would work in a similar fashion. Instead of logging into and out of several different blogs and online journaly things, I could just use ONE, and then instead of updating one and neglecting the others for extended periods of time, I would have one central online location for all of my online thoughts, and I would save time and... well, I would appear to have more of a life. Kind of. I would appear to update my blog more often, which may actually imply the opposite...