Some Notes on Non-Communication – Not Dead Yet

Blogging is a curious beast. And, picking up a blog when you haven’t posted in a while is a bit like picking up the phone to a friend when you haven’t spoken in a while. Which is to say, the longer you leave it, the harder it gets.

I wouldn’t say I’m off blogging, exactly. But I’m now so catastrophically far behind on our lives that it feels as though, within the leisurely narrative structure I’ve adopted, there’s a mountain to climb. And I don’t want to miss out great swathes of countries and activities, because when, in the past, I’ve skipped over stuff, I’ve regretted it.

Further, even if I did decide to do this, I’d need to work out a way in which to structure it, which, in itself, becomes an item on my blogging to-do list (like all procrastinators, I make GREAT to-do lists).

And that to-do list is small but substantial. Most notably, I need to optimise the site for mobile so that the majority of the digital population, the sort that reads on smartphones, tablets and phablets rather than dinosaur laptops or trilobyte desktops, can read it.

Which means the design’s going to change.

Which means… Well, a whole bloody project, frankly.

Yet, at the same time, paid work which deals with stuff I or we have done more recently than what I’m about to write about has more appeal – not just for the money at the end, but for the immediacy, the simple pleasure of putting words and pictures together for a brief, when you don’t have to scroll through several thousand new pics to find the one you want.

And, yes, sorting out my pictures is also on a to-do list, since you ask.

Which isn’t to say that I don’t want to write about Italy. I do. And I will.

And I don’t want to give up blogging.

But… There’s quite a lot going on right now, almost all of it good, but all of it quite time-consuming, and – at the risk of going all dog-ate-my-homework (which happens, by the way) – I just spent three hours of my life putting internet credit on a dongle. That was, for the record, AFTER I bought the credit…

Anywise, as with picking up the phone, the art of overcoming blogger’s block is, apparently, just as simple as putting paws to keyboard and getting something down. So… that’s what I’m doing. And hopefully we’ll be back in Italy very soon, and up to date even faster.

More to the point, for those of you who don’t do Facebook, we’re both of us very much alive and very much well. And that’s what counts, right? Err, right?

Image credit: I’m Not Working by Quinn Dombrowski on Flickr.