Reasons Why I Blog
About a week ago, Ian tagged me with this question. I was never good at tag as a kid because it involved running fast and my legs' notion of fast was a turtle crawl. However, this is a cyber tag, so I think I can do it.
1. I blog to have a central place to record my descriptions of events or share my feelings because so often, people ask me how my latest trip to Peru is or what's going on with me. Before I started blogging, I would have to repeat these things numerous times on the phone and in e-mails to inviduals and invariably, I'd leave something out that I'd have to explain later. With a blog, I'm saved from the "Oh, yeah, I forgot to say...blah, blah, blah" postscript or apology.
2. I blog so that I can comment on my brother's blog. Okay, that's not true any more. But when Ian started his first blog, you had to register and have a blog if you wanted to comment. So, I created one just so I could tell Ian that I was the sister who *didn't* hold his foot down so that he couldn't move until he screamed in frustration.
3. I blog because I love to write anything but fiction, but sometimes I'm not fulfilled after writing (1) a 2500-page whitepaper about data storage for business continuity; (2) a proposal describing each and every training session I'll offer a potential client to help their staff learn how to install use their optical character recognition cameras on gantry cranes and then use a web-application to compare the output from those cameras to the input in their databases; (3) an article stating the case for putting radio frequency tags on every shipping container in the world; (4) a description of the quality control process used by one of my clients to ensure that they hire only certified medical coders with the latest knowledge of the ICD-9; (5) a letter to a state senator asking him to introduce a bill that will designate a building a historic property to prevent a developer from tearing up the sidewalk around it; (6) a report that explains the results of a survey of 40 companies to determine whether they still process orders manually or if they use software and systems. However, the idea of writing a novel makes me break out in a cold sweat. So, instead, with a blog, I get to pretend I'm David Sedaris and write essays that are either about me or parodies of things that bother me.
4. Like Ian, I blog to connect with siblings. Since I haven't gotten around to accumulating friends from the blogosphere, because to do that, I have to read other people's blogs and I've just started doing that, my sisters and Ian are pretty much the only people who read and comment on my blog posts regularly. It's so satisfactory to help them relive funny or happy times in our lives and react to them in their comments.
5. I blog so that my cats have even more reason to walk across the keyboards of my laptops, leap onto the box that serves as a woofer and tweeter for my Dell Dimension desktop, knock my books and papers onto the floor, sleep behind the cable modem, and fight with me for the occupancy of my office chair. Blogging adds more hours to the days when I'm on the computer for 8-12 hour stretches and that means that the cats have even more time to mess with my office area and computers.
6. I blog because people ask me to write more. My only regret is that I don't have as much time to blog as I'd like to. I hope that this will change before long, but because I love to work hard and I love what I work on, I don't know if it will.
7. I blog because sometimes I'm bored. There are times when I have to wait for a 6-meg brochure to wind its way through cyberspace or I don't have any work to do, but I have to be near my computer to take help desk calls. I can only read so many personal emails and play so many games of solitaire. Blogging helps stave off that boredom because if there's one thing I really hate, it's to be bored.
I think that's all the reasons. I don't have anyone to tag because Ian opened the challenge and Emily's already taken Ian up on his tag.
1. I blog to have a central place to record my descriptions of events or share my feelings because so often, people ask me how my latest trip to Peru is or what's going on with me. Before I started blogging, I would have to repeat these things numerous times on the phone and in e-mails to inviduals and invariably, I'd leave something out that I'd have to explain later. With a blog, I'm saved from the "Oh, yeah, I forgot to say...blah, blah, blah" postscript or apology.
2. I blog so that I can comment on my brother's blog. Okay, that's not true any more. But when Ian started his first blog, you had to register and have a blog if you wanted to comment. So, I created one just so I could tell Ian that I was the sister who *didn't* hold his foot down so that he couldn't move until he screamed in frustration.
3. I blog because I love to write anything but fiction, but sometimes I'm not fulfilled after writing (1) a 2500-page whitepaper about data storage for business continuity; (2) a proposal describing each and every training session I'll offer a potential client to help their staff learn how to install use their optical character recognition cameras on gantry cranes and then use a web-application to compare the output from those cameras to the input in their databases; (3) an article stating the case for putting radio frequency tags on every shipping container in the world; (4) a description of the quality control process used by one of my clients to ensure that they hire only certified medical coders with the latest knowledge of the ICD-9; (5) a letter to a state senator asking him to introduce a bill that will designate a building a historic property to prevent a developer from tearing up the sidewalk around it; (6) a report that explains the results of a survey of 40 companies to determine whether they still process orders manually or if they use software and systems. However, the idea of writing a novel makes me break out in a cold sweat. So, instead, with a blog, I get to pretend I'm David Sedaris and write essays that are either about me or parodies of things that bother me.
4. Like Ian, I blog to connect with siblings. Since I haven't gotten around to accumulating friends from the blogosphere, because to do that, I have to read other people's blogs and I've just started doing that, my sisters and Ian are pretty much the only people who read and comment on my blog posts regularly. It's so satisfactory to help them relive funny or happy times in our lives and react to them in their comments.
5. I blog so that my cats have even more reason to walk across the keyboards of my laptops, leap onto the box that serves as a woofer and tweeter for my Dell Dimension desktop, knock my books and papers onto the floor, sleep behind the cable modem, and fight with me for the occupancy of my office chair. Blogging adds more hours to the days when I'm on the computer for 8-12 hour stretches and that means that the cats have even more time to mess with my office area and computers.
6. I blog because people ask me to write more. My only regret is that I don't have as much time to blog as I'd like to. I hope that this will change before long, but because I love to work hard and I love what I work on, I don't know if it will.
7. I blog because sometimes I'm bored. There are times when I have to wait for a 6-meg brochure to wind its way through cyberspace or I don't have any work to do, but I have to be near my computer to take help desk calls. I can only read so many personal emails and play so many games of solitaire. Blogging helps stave off that boredom because if there's one thing I really hate, it's to be bored.
I think that's all the reasons. I don't have anyone to tag because Ian opened the challenge and Emily's already taken Ian up on his tag.
posted by Froshty | 9:12 AM
5 Comments:
So, it's true! I really was adopted. I mean, I can't possibly be related to someone who would want to write anythign other than a 2500-page whitepaper about data storage for business continuity.
What a great list! I especially like the blogging so the cat can walk over your keypad, that made me laugh. But all around a great list!
Courtney, I have a photo of my "unpaid office assistants" (all four of them) that I'll post on this blog when I have a chance. Although in the picture none of them is on the keyboard, all but one of them got to their positions in the photo by walking across at least two keyboards.
Emily, try not to get jealous, but my next project is a four-page paper on information management for mid-sized businesses.
An unknown reason why you blog is to guarantee a laugh for your sister.
now I stay in touch!
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