Getting the habit.

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Greetings gentle reader. Reviewing my contributions to Facebook recently, I can see how tiresome that venue can become.  It's a soapbox and bullhorn for whining.  On the other hand, I've gotta admit I've seen some fine stuff, and get some nice words from people when things are tough.  (EG: The anniversary of the birth of my departed BFF.)

Now I sorta get why I don't like podcasts, or -casting, even though I was a college-radio geek.  And audio nerd.  Podcasts go at the speed of the speaker, not the listener.  And after enduring a lifetime's boredom in my 1st 3 minutes of a podcast that any sane person would say I should love, I foreswore it and the whole art forever for the 21st time.  Perhaps savagely managing the FFWD button might save me, but what if I just wanted to listen?  I think I have too little tolerance for vocal tics so maybe that's why I crash on the whole thing.  I don't enter the field myself because my inner director makes Cecil B. DeMille look like an amateur.  Not living up to THAT bar is unworthy the frustration.  And we won't even start on vlogging, wherein the entry fee is so much higher.

So why, me who rambles in writing more than most, can't get into content creation on this forum?  Plenty of ideas, I deceive myself into believing.  Some propensity to blather entertainingly (Hey, I'm the funniest me I know!).  I even get that I need to re-read and edit, to re-work with the reader in mind.  Some of it is the idea of learning Yet Another Text Editor, though I'm putting my hopes on MarsEdit to make that easier.  Some of it is the loss of old content—I've migrated my unfrequent writings about 3 times, each with a massive heart-wrenching loss.  Then again, as you can see over there on the right, stuff goes back to…to….too long.

I've no answers, dear reader, and thus I give you another dead-end entry.  Is it a canvas at the end of the road that the coyote has artfully painted a tunnel in the nonexistent mountain?  Is it a brick wall?  Is your headlong rush toward it like a neutron or a neutrino?

I wish you health and wisdom-earned-gently and we'll see.  Bullwinkle's wisdom (“This time for SURE!”) guided me to my last and greatest love, maybe I can relight that optimism herein and provide the world with some small thoughts worthy of consideration.

Addendum 1 (of hopefully many): Just upped my downloads-count to 3x the recommendation, and voila, all my content in one place.  Now to edit, perchance to post.  Ease-of-use makes publishers of us all.