Two Slashes

I’ve been blogging in some form or another for longer than I can remember.  (I don’t mean to use a cliché here, but I really can’t pin a more specific timeframe down.)  I’ve had a few previous projects I’ve scrapped before they were even made public, and then there was the previous (public) blog hosted by a friend of mine for about a year.

Out of boredom and a sudden burst of curiosity, I’ve started probing for any remaining backups from that previous blog over the past few weeks.  I don’t think there are any left in existence, though I’ve managed to find and piece together a few small tidbits of posts from here and there.

What’s amusing is noticing, even from the mere snippets I’ve been able to collect, just how a few years can have a huge impact both in voice and topics.  A lot of the older posts (the ones I have managed to recover, at least) are nothing more than tiny little blurbs about the holidays or a few words attached to a post made.  Compared to my lengthy spiel about the holiday season from hell, I wonder where and how I ended up transforming from a quiet type into a “professional ranter”™.

One of the things I noticed is that I was a lot more consistent with my posting, though my posts usually tended to be no more than a sentence or two, and some were posted straight from Digg.  Now, it’s hard to think of me posting anything that short (I aim for upwards of 400 words per post – especially during the Comment Block – and usually end up doubling that number by the time they’re published), but at the same time I’m more irregular in when I complete them.

In an effort to encourage me to both become a little more active and personal in my posting (and as something I should have plugged much more prominently and sooner), I joined 20SB, a group of twenty-something blogging enthusiasts with a lot to say and a great community (including several authors from blogs I already follow).  While I’m not intending to go from statue to sponge, hopefully it will loosen my tongue a little bit once the Comment Block is over.  We’ll see what happens with that, and I encourage you to join as well if you fit the age bracket.

If you think this post sounds a bit funny, you’re right.  It’s been sitting in a draft folder for  at least two weeks, and I put together only minor edits before I clicked Publish.  I have too much stuff going on tonight to put much more effort into this post, though I intend on revising (and/or rewriting ) it when I get the chance.