Discussion of Blog Content
As the dog returns to his vomit, so the fool repeats his folly.
Proverbs 26:11
Just a Warning
The above is doubtless my favorite passage from sacred scripture, as it captures in one brief metaphor the content of both my life and my conduct generally, and particularly my tedious habit of setting up a blog and then either deleting it or taking it private. “This time it will be different,” I tell myself. Each time. And, of course, it isn’t. Either I get bored, or re-read some entries and start getting worried that I have perhaps said a bit too much, in the sense that I have compromised my anonymity, or re-read some entries and don’t like the portrait of myself that emerges. Or something. And then that which was started with such great hopes and expectation is swept under the rug.
In any event, I do hope that this time it shall be different, but am by no means convinced that it will be. Meaning this blog has about as good a chance of disappearing as any, perhaps a better chance that most. In good conscience I feel I must offer this warning to my adoring public, so that that my legion of fans will not be disappointed, or at any rate surprised, if this blog suffers the fate of all its predecessors.
Content Broadly Defined
The Great Schism
Yes, I have established two blogs, one where I hope to present to the world some writing a bit more on the polished side, and another where I will post with no such expectation. I thought a split along those lines would allow me a place to post such nonsense and twaddle as I wish, but also prevent said nonsense from overwhelming the occasional thoughtful, intelligent and well-behaved post, as would be the case if I confined myself to one blog.
I am not going to explicitly limit the topics I write about or comment upon in either blog other than doing all that I can to preserve my anonymity. This has proven to be a very difficult balancing act in previous efforts at blogging, and perhaps the issue is difficult to the point of impossibility. I hope this will not prove to be the case, but as noted, I’ve been down this road a few times before. And failed each time, or at least several times. Once I write my planned biography page it will be clear as to why I must make anonymity mandatory, but for now it must simply be assumed, since I say it has to be that way. As a practical matter this means I might on occasion change a few details to this or that post, but I hope that this will be a rare occurrence. Hopefully, I will simply be able to omit anything compromising but still capture the essence of whatever it is I might have to say.
And though I am placing no explicit limitations on content upon myself, my present interests incline me to post about some topics far more than others. Specifically:
- Employment – Me, getting and keeping a job
- Mental Health – There is something decidedly wrong with me, and to date we have achieved at best a partial solution. Within this category, expect further discussion of:
- Adult ADHD – This is one tentative diagnosis
- Asperger’s Syndrome – Another tentative diagnosis
- Executive Function – A big problem of mine, whether or not either, both or neither of the above conditions are found to ultimately apply to me
- Depression – an on-going issue of mine
- Suicide – Thoughts of this occur to me from time to time, but this has actually receded as an issue relative to where I once was
- A Philosophy of Life – I’ve already written a few fumbling pages, but I still feel a need to re-examine a great many of my personal beliefs and practices, ideally coming up with some sort of coherent framework
- Nonsense, rants, journal entries, and silly observations, hopefully all confined to the Musings blog
The Last Giant Ground Sloth
This is, of course, going to be the “serious” blog. I anticipate the blog will function this way:
- Long, tedious posts on an intermittent basis, hopefully true essays of some sort
- “Strategic” posts where I attempt to spell out what it is I am trying to do, and what sort of barriers I am up against, all at a very high level
- “Tactical” posts where I attempt to discuss how well or poorly I am faring in reaching said goals, and what changes I may or may not make in pursuit of said goal(s)
- Possibly snippets from longer posts being written but not yet finished
Musings from a Giant Ground Sloth
Essentially everything that is not going into the above blog will be going in this one. In addition to what I note above, add commentary on the current political situation, though I doubt they’ll be much of that, and also things like book and possibly movie reviews. I will also allow my emotions quite a bit freer rein on this one. I might try some other things, but at this point they probably do not belong on this page.
Note: This page is identical on both blogs. If there’s a way to add a static page to a blog that is not hosted on that blog, I’ve not heard of it.
