PT8

It's weird to be at monthly blog posting. But there's been factors slowing me down.

School was a lot easier to write about. I could post anything, and what did it matter? I paid to be in the class, and no amount of salt could backfire. Work is a different story, and the internet is littered with tales of bosses who comb employees pages to see what their employee says when not at work.
So work, even as work becomes my main point of interest, it cannot and should not be posted about. And therefore, will not. So that leaves me with everything outside work.

Daily life for me is mostly appointments and errands with my mom. She's needing less often appointments now, which is wonderful! But, for what remains my presence is just as required. It's not a hardship on me per say, (albeit boring at times, but other stresses will make waiting rooms a pleasure..) but it's definitely not something that I can write posts about. Spam button posts would probably do better at that point.

That leaves me with all outside of that, which is my spare time. As of late I've been in a Daft Punk kick for music, and Rick and Morty Season 3 kick for TV. Some have teased me to go watch GoT, or at least try it, so that could be in the pipes, but yeah.
Essentially though, from that you can see an entire post of my spare times can be cleared in two sentences.

Now, PTE is actually pretty formulaic. Might be hard to believe, as it's been organized chaos...always. But I digress. It's been at least formulaic for the last 2 years.
For the last while, every post I've aimed for 3 paragraphs, preferably connected to each other but with how things go most end up disjointed. C'est la vie.
And of course, a picture. That's a PTE staple, heh.
So my simple spare time doesn't exactly work, being 2 lines at best. Tricky tricky.

I've been pondering what to do to help generate posts. I know that people have mentioned before that "PTE doesn't just have to be about your life" and "post whatever you want (within reason)" and I'm sure that posts about different things could work. I mean, best examples being the weird posts like Initiators vs. Reciprocators and stuff like that.

I guess when I had the identity struggle with what PTE was supposed to be, I hard-line decided that it was supposed to be about my daily going-ons and occasionally about my hometown Trips to help people get a hold of me in Hometown. Now lately it's neither of those things. Hence us being here.

I guess I'm curious what people think, those of you still visiting this literally old site (It's almost 8, wtf) of where I should go next. Another thing I'm considering is making a way to search for posts by title, so I can link to old ones easier for more reading. (I searched through for those two I linked. Bleh.)

What do you think?


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  1. Brian Clark

    “Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.”

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  2. Oh man, our blogs are old. I've been basically monthly posting as well for the last like, year. I should post soon lol.
    Idk, if you don't have much going on day-to-day write about ideas you've been thinking about? Not necessarily "creative" ideas like, I'm going a make a comic about x but like, I've been thinking about road rage or something idk lol, and then your thoughts about it. Just an idea.

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    1. Right?! We've been the long haulers. I understand especially since I've had the same, all I can say is I'm definitely still checking and reading your posts, if that helps you.

      Yeah I've definitely been toying with the idea of more opinion pieces. The only contention point is no matter what, I gotta be careful what gets tied to my name. I've already unlinked my business site from my profile, while still redoing my profile, but I plan to move the business site to wordpress maybe at some point too.
      Long story short I'll have some opinion pieces, but I'm going to still watch my P's and Q's.
      I also have plans for some alternative type posts. I might slip in some creative stuff, but it won't be the typical vaporware garbage that is associated if anything does make it.
      I mean, I do have another blog for that anyway, heh.

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