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December 31, 2007
Life : A Very Fine Year
Well, we live in interesting times, and between work and church, that has certainly been true for me this year. I have already posted on events at church, and as per my policy I will say nothing about my work other than what is in the pubic record - we have gone through 3 CEO's this year (I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess what that has been like); but on the upside we are now cash-flow positive.
Despite all that change, it has been a good year for Anne and me. Our marriage is stronger than it has ever been. Life in general is going well. I've made some real efforts to focus my life more on the things that are important to me; and that has freed up the time to invest enough in those things to start seeing tangible rewards. I even made some progress losing weight (at least until the Holidays arrived).
And obviously, I am back blogging.
I'm still ahead of the game on posts, and given the variability of my life I'd like to keep it that way. My plan for next year for this blog is to do 5 regular (scheduled) posts a week on Monday-Friday, with additional posts on any day when I have something more to say that can't wait. Furthermore, until my reading list is cut down to a manageable size, Monday's post will always be a "books I have read" post (I may actually keep that up even after I have tamed the list). So that leaves me with 4 new essays to write each week, which I think is a sustainable pace. The regular post should be up at 5:07AM Pacific time.
I also expect to return to a more diverse mix of posts again. My intent has always been that this blog reflect the mix of things I am thinking about, which lately has mostly been about church. I do however have other topics I expect to get to, including some of my game idea files. Several people have suggested that this blog would be more successful if I picked one topic and promoted the site as a go-to place for that subject; but my goal has never been to have a successful blog – I write this to get things out of my system and to engage other folks on topics that interest me. As long as there remain a few people who are willing to comment on what I say, I am content.
Posted by Steven at December 31, 2007 05:00 AM
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>>> Several people have suggested that this blog would be more successful if I picked one topic and promoted the site as a go-to place for that subject...
Part of the beauty of a blog is that you get to see *all* the facets of an individual. If I don't care for a topic, I can skip it. If I do care, or if it piques my interest, I can dive in. If the entry that might have piqued my interest is in a wholly different area, I might never see it and I might not learn to appreciate another facet of the writer's character.
(I think Anne made a mistake by splitting her blog. It makes updates to both less frequent and results in fewer visits because of the dimished frequency.)
Posted by: janbergs ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://sighsandmusings.stevenanne.net/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 2, 2008 02:29 PM
Plus my main page has a series of links to "category" pages that include all of the posts in a given category (look down the right column). So if you just wanted to see all of my "book" posts, you can go there.
BTW – the search function (below the category links) also works. I use it often myself when I start to write a post and things start feeling familiar just to make sure I hadn't said the same thing before.
Posted by: Steven at January 2, 2008 03:27 PM
There was a specific reason I split the blogs up.. I am part of an online community of knitters and crocheters. I want them to know what I'm up to knitwise, but want to maintain a certain amount of privacy regarding the rest of my life. There is a link from one to the other, but not both ways.
The fact that I have failed to maintain both is due to laziness, other issues, and a deep desire to imitate Melissa (-;
Posted by: Anne at January 2, 2008 03:28 PM
Ah, imitating Melissa. It's worked enough that Melissa's dad is now hounding *you*! :-)
Posted by: janbergs at January 3, 2008 11:42 AM
