Back In The Saddle

Back In The Saddle

OK, been away from the blog, never finished the update promised in the last entry, even got a bunch of e-mails and two phone calls asking if I'd fallen off the side of the planet.

Well, no, I didn't fall off the side of the planet (as opposed to the little-discussed 4th ship that sailed with Columbus), but my little professional space on the planet got very, very busy. And that business took a whole lotta brain time, leaving me very little mental energy for composing blog entries.

Except for watching/listening to Yankee games, I've been a working hermit for the past two weeks. I did need some sort of release, a place for the creative brain-to-fingertip activity that is usually devoted to composing blog entries.

So I became somewhat of a gadfly. Despite being overloaded with work, I managed to read a good many blogs, including some I now read on a regular basis. A good few, actually, daily, in that I just don't want to miss what the writers have to say. And since I haven't had the time or necessary mental energy to devote to composing, what I've done a great deal of, lately, is post comments on a bunch of blogs.

Yes, I've become a commenting gadfly, skipping about from blog to blog, posting response, replies, witticisms, and other such pithy remarks.

It has been quite a hoot, and possibly a bit therapeutic. You see, when I don't post to the blog for any prolonged period of time, feelings of guilt and obligation start to rumble from somewhere deep inside.

But leaving comments on other blogs seems to somehow absolve and assuage, and it feels like being a pinch-hitter, or a ringer on a team.

So thanks to all the other bloggers on whose sites I've posted all sorts of stuff. You've assisted in maintaining some degree of my mental health.

ENOUGH ALREADY

No more from me at the moment about BloggerCon II. There are scores of blogs with discussions about the sessions, the meaning of the sessions, the politics of the sessions and the session leaders and those who post about it after the fact. Blah, blah, blah. Enough is already written out there. My feelings or attitudes or observations are amply covered in others' writings, there's no need to add more to the fray.

Of course, if the mood should strike, I might wax away about some BCII item or event that may be on my mind. Or maybe not. Anyway, I still owe a few people replies to specific e-mails on the topic.

The bottom line is that I am glad I went. The sessions were good, even when the politics or attitude of people in the room may have twisted and turned around the sessions. I met a good many people/bloggers I'd only read not seen, and in closing, it was a positive experience.

Was that a journalistic wrap up? Oops. There I go again.