Cheating at blogging, on a personal blog, is like cheating at solitaire. It can be done, but why bother? I have no idea why, yet I confess to having done it. I wouldn’t dream of cheating against a person, but sometimes I do move cards around just to keep the game going if nothing is at stake.<\/p>\n
This is my blog that I started posting daily to on January 1 of this year. I have not missed a day since then. I don’t really know why. When I started on the daily blog challenge I had no particular goal in mind. I was just going to blog every day until I quit. I think I wanted to beat my previous daily blogging record at some point, but I did that a few months ago. Now I’m just back to the idea that I’ll keep going until I quit.<\/p>\n
Which should mean that it wouldn’t be a big deal to miss a day.<\/p>\n
I don’t think it would be a big deal.<\/p>\n
That’s why there’s no particular explanation for why I’ve been blogging without really blogging for the past few days. I’ve been posting pictures, which would be perfectly legit if I were using my camera. But no, I haven’t even made that effort. I’ve been posting pictures from my phone. I haven’t even logged into my blog for days, though I do still have a post to show for all of those days I wasn’t actually even looking at my blog.<\/p>\n
This is a mild form of cheating that I’m going to claim here and now is perfectly okay. I won’t be moving into real cheating until I start changing the date and time stamps on my posts.<\/p>\n
It sort of amazes me that I haven’t changed any time stamps yet. I’ve genuinely posted something every day even when what I posted wasn’t all that genuine.<\/p>\n
And here I am at month 7 still wondering why and for how long. I don’t know. You can’t plan a good compulsion. You have to just jump in there and live with it.<\/p>\n
That’s it. That’s all you get today. I have to play a round of solitaire now. I have a bet on myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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