Sorry, Shelley. I beat you to the "I'm boring" post by about four days.

But it's weird, you know, how our everyday lives and experiences are so interesting to everyone else. It's that "one man's trash is another man's treasure" syndrome, I suppose.

So, suck it up. You're no more boring than I am. At least to other people. Smoochies.

You're boring? You? Boring?

Oh wait. I also posted this comment four days back on Shannon's site. To avoid redundancy (and therefore avoid becoming boring as well), go read it over there...

Addendum: You will need to ignore the 'kid' portion of that comment, but the rest fits.

Well, as long as your definition of "fun" includes beating your head against a brick wall and tearing your hair out in frustration...

it's cyclical Bb. I'm really enjoying my blog right now, give it a month and I'll be scrabbling around, posting about dark stuff, asking "why?", looking for reassurance etc. etc.

Someone should do an article about this so that new bloggers don't just pack it in 2 months after starting, they need to realise that depression comes with the territory. We should call this 'Blogarythms'.

Actually, I spent most of yesterday in my car and thought long and hard about the constant pressure to be interesting week after week. A first time visitor to a blog is going to go on what's immediately at hand, they're not going to spend any time at all looking through your archives to see what a good writer you are, how interesting your stuff is etc., they're going to look at today and maybe 2 or 3 days back. If you were the most prolific writer 51 weeks of the year and one week you deciced to write a load of guff about nothing in particular then new visitors to your blog are going to think, "nah, I'll pass."

Apart from the writer, blog archives serve little or no purpose to anyone. We could almost do away with them, delete them once they get to three months old.

I don't read my archives but I'd obviously like to be able to sometime in the future. As far as holding attention/interest, you gotta keep the here and now polished, shiny and worth reading, every single day. This, I think, is where this cyclical blog fade thing comes in, it's just bloody hard work.

Some might say that they don't blog for attention or to connect with other people, I doubt that. Most of the time, most of the people want to make a positive impact on a visitor/reader.

Shelley, your writing has not been boring lately. I've enjoyed it very much. You've been mixing in about the right amount of tech stuff, personal anecdotes and photographs to keep me coming back and checking in on a daily basis. Your writing on your recent trip show me that you probably are having more fun and excitement than you might think you are. Now, go back and read what you've been writing and tell me again that you have been having a boring life.
:-)

i second Jonathon.

I wish I could be out on a boring hike in the boring woods, instead of doing exciting things like cutting and pasting, and cutting and pasting, and cutting and pasting.

I guess I should shut up and stop whining.

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Gee, Ryan. Considering this, I guess the use of "Bore" is also out for her. Fortunately, "Dead" appears legalistically unencumbered.

OK, how's about:

I BECAME a NON-LIVING bore? No dibsies on past tense, Ryan.

Loren -- today at the St. Louis zoo, I took a pic _just_for_you, but first, I have another online weblog to get ready -- "Tracking the Wild MT Documenters"....

(That's what was missing, I haven't harrassed folks for a week or two. No wonder I was off. How can you all tell that I love you if I don't harrass you?)

Shannon, I think you're right -- sometimes we don't know what we got until others remind us...or something.

you aren't the only boring one. meep too is boring methinks.