Too much time... Too little time

Warning: Stream of consciousnessy type post


Lately I've found myself posting on this blog a lot... Pretty much because a) I enjoy it & b) I've had a lot of free time on my hands and screwing around on the internet always seems a lot more appealing than actually attempting to accomplish anything productive.

Got me thinking about some of the elements that actually go into creating a successful blog.


1. You have to be at least marginally interesting (although this is the internet after all so the bar isn't exactly set very high, especially considering that this guy has something like 10 million views on some of his youtube videos).


2. You have to maintain the blog through frequent updates. Otherwise, people will lose interest.


3. You don't want to post too often otherwise you'll over saturate the market and people will lose interest. Also you'll be contributing to "blogger guilt". That's when you're too busy doing "real world" activities to keep up with your own blog or comment on the blogs you follow. Yep, that's a real thing! Urbandictionary.com says so, and it's on the internet so it must be true!!!


...so that got me thinking about "Tivo guilt" ... Yep, that's real too, and even has it's own CNN.com story. That's when you have a Tivo full of shows and not enough time to watch them.


...which led me to think about how sad we humans are and how we'll never be truly happy...


We can transmit our thoughts to billions of people worldwide, we can watch 1000's of television programs on 100's of channel at anytime we want... and are we satisfied??? No... we're guilty!!!... Hate to be cliche but what would the starving children of Africa say about that?


I say this all in a tongue-in-cheek way but it is funny how easily we begin to take the miracles in our lives for granted (cars that can take us anywhere we want whenever we want, planes that can fly us halfway around the world, even television) and start focusing on the negative (the price of gas, cramped airline seats and flight delays, there's nothing on tv tonight or my screen is only 42 inches 720p and i want a 55 inch 1080p.


Anyway, that's enough about me being a bummer for one day.


I think I'm going to ignore it all for now, enjoy the simple things in life, and go for a run!!! All I'll need to be happy then is the great outdoors, a soothing wind at my back, and the warm sun on my face...


...plus of course a wrist mounted GPS device that can pinpoint my location anywhere in the world within 10 feet while recording my heartrate... and BTW, can't they make this thing any smaller?!? IT'S LIKE WEARING A DAMN BRICK ON MY WRIST!!!!!