{"id":1586,"date":"2005-08-18T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2005-08-18T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:45:00","slug":"to-post-or-not-to-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/18\/to-post-or-not-to-post\/","title":{"rendered":"To post or not to post&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been up and down in posting in the past two months. This is ironically timed with my move. <\/p>\n<p>I have 338 people listed in my &#8216;subscription list&#8217; (I utterly refuse to refer to this as a friends list, with all due respect to those on my list who I call friends)<\/p>\n<p>LJ has become an enigma for me on many levels. I love the sense of community that is built into it, but dislike the the lack of community that is caused by looking at journals not managed by LJ. I am constantly in a stage of keep up or die between my LJ subscriptions and the wealth of other sites that I use for both news and community information.<\/p>\n<p>Add to that the threatened mass purge that I&#8217;ve just never been able to face due to the social and intellectual ramifications involved. For as a true procrastinator we do understand that the easiest way to deal with a difficult problem is to put it to the side until it becomes unwieldy and destroys us.<\/p>\n<p>So, why haven&#8217;t I posted?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s to avoid adding to the amount of data someone else processes. Perhaps there just hasn&#8217;t been anything motivating me to really post about. Perhaps, I am just worried that I will swing back into making 5-9 posts a day and take up all my time.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, I think it comes down to one really simple fact. I am a software solutions person at heart. To me this situation has an answer. I can feel it, touch it, smell it, taste it, caress it in my arms. But it&#8217;s just not here yet. An organizational solution that will make my LJ experience jump light years away from where it is.<\/p>\n<p>Each time I log on to LJ it is a reminder that drives me back to research.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that my research is bearing fruit. The earliest work is resulting in things that make me happy. As a result I keep coming back to LJ&#8230; for more.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m not commenting a lot, it&#8217;s not personal, it&#8217;s not neglect, it&#8217;s not disinterest. (Well, with a few of you that I should have purged a while ago, it is personal \ud83d\ude09 If I&#8217;m not really posting a lot it&#8217;s primarily because I&#8217;m wasting my time in other ways on the net. (Ooh, Pogo, you are such a time waste)<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, it&#8217;s been a busy 54 days since I ended my 5+ years in Southern California. I am still adjusting. Still finding my way through an entirely new life. So, in someways the old me is growing back, in other ways, the next me is beginning to blossom.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting trip. 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