How long has it been since I’ve written in this blog? A few months probably, idk. Moving to a new state seems like it should be a good excuse but to be honesty I’ve still had alot of free time so to say I’ve been too busy feels like lying. Whatever the case may be, I want to get back into doing writing even if it is only Random Thoughts type stuff that takes basically zero real effort or thought on my part. God, I’m pretty lazy. I’ve somehow managed to convince myself that mindlessly writing whatever thoughts come up is near to work or effort. I don’t even have to worry about these writing being good because I’ve hedged so much that the onus of getting over a lack in quality has been shifted to the reader instead of me, the guy responsible for writing it. That seems weird to me, almost wrong, maybe. Whatever though.
The reason I’ve come back to the blog is because I bought myself a new toy. I don’t mean like action figure or something but when I bought this thing I thought to myself that it would be a good idea for me to restrict my usage of it. I decided I could only use it if I do some sort of writing for at least an hour that day. Until I write for an hour I won’t let myself play with the toy. Is that a childish strategy to use a toy as a reward for essentially the mental equivalent of brushing my teeth? I guess it doesn’t matter if it is. I really wonder if that means I’ll be updating my blog almost every day like a did right at the beginning. Maybe if I do some type of more serious “work” that day I can just count that as fulfilling the pre-requisite to using the toy.
What do I talk about now? I don’t really feel like going into depth on what the “toy” actually is since it doesn’t matter. My family, that I live with now, is getting a puppy today. I probably could have started off with that news since puppies are always pretty good at hooking people in. Nobody sees those youtube thumbnails of cute puppy video compilations without at least hesitating to see if they want to watch it. If you see a thumbnail of some guy making an over reaction face or something like that it’s pretty natural to just scroll past without ever stopping to even consider watching but puppies? You gotta at least look at how cute the thumbnail is.
One of my goals for this blog is to finish my series of Plato’s Republic. I got a LONG way to go but if I’m doing one or two hours of work on it almost everyday I should get through it eventually. It’s a good thing I don’t mind this blog having zero readers cause anyone who isn’t interested in reading the notes of some random guy reading ancient Philosophy is gonna get tired of my blog posts populating his queue. I don’t know how wordpress actually works so maybe you don’t get a queue of posts by people you “follow”.
Queue is one of my favorite words. Mostly it’s just because of how it’s spelled. I know I’ve said this before but I’m a list keeper and one of my lists is all my favorite words. It’s a pretty long list, let’s see. There are 174 words on the list. The most recent additions are “Persnickety”, “Vociferous”, and “Pooper Scooper”. LoL… pooper scooper. That’s a fun one to say. I keep a list of words I don’t like as well. Mostly these are words that I think are annoying to say out loud like, “Crisps”, “Yield”, “Palimpsests”, and “Griped”. I might like a word for all sorts of reasons but I typically only dislike words that are unwieldy to vocalize.
How long were these Random Thoughts posts? Have I done enough to pick up the fancy new toy I bought? Should I do a Plato’s Republic post as well today before I move on? I guess you’ll know the answer if you see I haven’t posted again today. You probably won’t see another post today if I’m honest. I’ll use the excuse that I should slowly get back into the groove again instead of just writing two whole posts. I mean come on. TWO? that’s just not possible for me right now. I’ve got to build up my stamina again, obviously.
I’m pretty good at coming up with excuses. It’s an art form, almost.
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