“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”                                                 Walter Elliot

It’ s now been several weeks since I began this blog, and even though I’ve only gotten a couple major posts under my belt, I have a new-found respect for bloggers in general. It’s not an easy task. It’s not that writing in itself is difficult, it’s more the site management. Finding suitable images, doing research, formatting my posts,  phew! It’s exhausting.

Exhausting but rewarding. I adore writing and this has been really fun. I’ve learned a lot of new things about managing a blog and also about the topics I have written about or plan to write about. This project has already paid off for me, and I’m glad of that. One thing I’d like to improve is garnering more knowledge and more interesting things to share here. That way my incessant thirst for information will be sated as well as my desire to share new things with my readers. Well, reader.

In short, I’m going to try to hold myself to a regular schedule of writing posts.  Not one that I’ll make public- because I’ll inevitably fail to meet it- but to give me more of a deadline to work with, something I definitely need.

See you [at an undetermined time]!

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”                               Napoleon Bonaparte

As I write this at 1:00 in the morning, having played around for a few hours with the various features of this website, it’s truly hit home how little I know about this medium. I’ve dabbled in web design before (on a very superficial level), but it seems that managing something as simple as a blog where almost everything is already done for me is quite a formidable task. The amount of customization at my fingertips is indeed quite impressive, however as I don’t have the know-how to use it all, it means nothing to me. It’s quite frustrating to know that there’s so much I could do- if i wasn’t utterly ignorant of how to do it.

Despite the unsettling blow to my ego I am certainly not discouraged- far from it. I am now motivated to show this site who’s boss, and plan to figure out each and every thing this blog is capable of. After having considered myself a master of technology for so long, I would be remiss to give up after the first day. After all, I’m writing this blog to learn, and the less I know now the more I can learn later. I’ll try to remind myself of that as I move forward, and keep from letting any frustration get the better of me.

I’ve been thinking about creating a blog for a good while now, and seeing my sister find a rewarding creative outlet with her own has finally pushed me to flex my own blog-writing skills. If I have any remains to be seen, but I think a blog will be an interesting project for me to work on and practice designing. I suppose the reason I deliberated so long over whether to make a blog is mostly due to the fact that I have no idea what I’d write about. Sure, it’s easy to say “Oh, just make it like a diary” or “make daily updates about your adventures” but when it comes down to it, I’m a less-than-interesting guy whose last diary entry ever made was in August 2012, and who struggled for a good five minutes to do the simple task of inventing a URL for this site. Still, I’d like to have practice with blogging and perhaps now that I have a means of easily writing and publishing my thoughts, I’ll discover I have more to talk about than I initially thought.

Another factor in my creation of this blog is one of my college courses, a Computer Information Systems class where I’ll be spending a lot of time creating, designing, and writing websites. I figure if I practice with the most basic of website creation tools (this site) it certainly won’t hurt my understanding of the more complex aspects of this type of thing. A couple of the goals I’ve made in the creation of this blog are:

• To practice and improve my writing ability,
• To learn some basic background knowledge on how sites are created,
• To read other blogs and learn from the more experienced,
• To keep up regular posts at least through the Spring 2015 Semester, and finally
•  To figure out how to manage Bulleted Lists better, because this took a while to do!

Hopefully over time I’ll become better at expressing interesting things I do or think, and will be able to articulate them better as well. Maybe I’ll regret having such a lengthy and difficult URL/site name too (incidentally it’s one of my favorite Latin phrases: “Fame comes too late to the dead“) but for now it will suit my purposes just fine. Here’s hoping I can keep up with regular posts and that they don’t bore anyone (including myself) to tears. We’ll just have to wait and see.