Procrastination

One of the main reasons that allow me to go months without posting here is the fact that I've always treated this blog as a secret blog, even though it contains my full name and is not private.

Surely there has been enough that's happened with my life in the exactly four months it's been since I last posted here.

- Of my 4 active blogs, the other blog that's been ignored is Scooter Sunday.  Not on purpose, mind you, but just naturally inactive due to the lack of editing of Scooter Sunday episodes.

- The other 2 blogs that are active - Chillywilly.org and Banal Leakage - have remained at their normal pace of postings, with a few days in between posting being part of that normal pace.

- I should also mention another blog I update, where my alias is a LEGO minifig stormtrooper named Cooper...  Cooper Trooper.  It gets updates less frequently than I plan to.

- I've traveled a lot.  Seattle, northern Oregon and Vancouver, WA at the end of July.  Vancouver, WA again two weeks later, Irvine, CA a week later for my 30th high school reunion.  And Las Vegas and LEGOLand at the end of October.  All trips were good, with the exception of my spouse giving her driving instructions, which bothers me on many levels.

- I've been writing fiction, but not without procrastinating a lot.  I start a good story, then get busy with something else, come back to it and get it mostly finished.  Then wait till the day or two before it's due and scrambling to make final edits.

- Speaking of writing, I joined up to NaNoWriMo to give me some incentive to finish my novel I started in September 2000.  I'm still at chapter 3, with chapters 4-30 still in my head.

- As for my day job, the frustrations I deal with there still have not pushed me to a level of wanting to go somewhere else.  Perhaps I'm more at ease to let things be, given I have flex time and vacation days still left to burn for 2011.  Plus, it's not as stressful as it normally is.

- Daily exercise eludes me most days, with the treadmill now tucked into the corner of the downstairs family room.  My wife put it there... honest.. I'm not just dumping on her (only her driving instructions deserve the harsh retort I give her).  I just might have to join a gym again to give me some motivation.

Which leads me into the very reason I put things off a lot.  It's a matter of managing both my time and my many distractions.  When that day finally arrives, except some miraculous results posted to my other blogs.  And a nice mention here, of course.

Wish me luck.