Today is my two-month anniversary for keeping my blog. Sixty whole days! And at 500 words a day, that’s 30,000 words so far. Quite a bit of blogging! And as I’m writing this in Microsoft Word, and copying it to the blog entry screen, I can see that it comes to 56 pages so far (single-spaced). I’m quite proud of myself for keeping up so well.

Now the time has come, I suppose, to take a look back and evaluate how things have come so far, and speculate on the future. First, I’ve written some good stuff I know I never would have produced if I hadn’t disciplined myself to do this. Second, I’ve written a whole lot of stuff that the world could have done without. Third, this is taking up way too much of my time. The reality is, with Atlanta traffic, I usually only get 2-3 hours at home in the evenings before I go to sleep, and that doesn’t give me much time to eat and do other things.

Moreover, I’ve noticed that other people’s blogs are a lot more interesting than mine – because they only update when they have something worthwhile to say. Granted, I probably have more worthwhile things in a given period, because I come up with something worthwhile that I otherwise wouldn’t have thought of, but the fact remains that visitors have to sift a large amount of chaff to get to the wheat.

So, where do I go from here? Well, I’ve decided not to feel it necessary to blog every day. I haven’t done much reading lately, and I seriously want to push my way through some goood books – and that’s time that’s normally spent blogging. In addition, I don’t feel it necessary to blog a full 500 words a day. I’ll blog what I can when I can. Sometimes, having a word goal helps you to think of more things to write about. Other times, it can just make you wordy. From now on, I’ll blog what I think needs to be blogged, and then I’ll just shut up.

I feel relieved to have this behind me. It’s been a good experience, but now I want to move on – try something else, focus somewhere else, keep exploring and learning and discovering. From time to time, hopefully at least a couple of times a week, I’ll pop back in here and report on where I’m going and what I’m doing and what I’m learning and any interesting tidbits or anecdotes about my life – but it’ll strictly be on a “when-I-feel-like-it” schedule.

I’d like to thank all the regulars on my messageboard, those who encouraged me directly or indirectly by participating – it’s a lot easier to find motivation to write when you know you have an audience! I’d also like to thank all the little people who’ve given their all to get me this far. I know I promised I wouldn’t forget you, but I have. Sorry. Hope all of you are getting along okay – whoever you are.