Blogging

I've been fucking lazy! Unbelievably fucking lazy. I've not blogged for a long long time, so long I nearly forgot the password. Why?

Well I don't quite know. I suppose there have been several reasons. I was on a project at work for about 3 months. It took a lot out of me, even though everyone else thinks it was a scam. It's not worth explaining fully unless anyone reading this understands the intricate nature of migrating Airworthiness data from a 30 year old computer system to a 3 year old one. Shit, I'm even boring myself with just outlining it!

After the project I went back to "normal" work for about 2 or 3 days. My senior manager then asked me if I'd like to go off and do something different, off the back of what I'd achieved on the project. It sounded like good career development and a bit of an easy ride for 6 months. Oh how wrong I could be! It's fucking mental! A pretty thankless job, ultra high workload, little if any respect and it's bloody draining!

I suppose all of this has led me to feeling less 'funny' about things. I haven't lost my sense of humour, I hope. But I can't feel as flippant and surreal about life as I used to. I started this blog as a sideline to performing comedy. Hoping it would self-generate ideas and material. It did for a while, but I suppose as the life was knocked out of me and I started feeling less funny, I didn't want to just log on and moan about how shit I felt.

Anyway, I was driving home after my third nightshift the other morning, listening to Radio 4, a station for boring people, fishermen, farmers, old people and information junkies. There's lots of info on R4, lots of really meaty stuff. Gardeners World, Farming today, The Shipping forecast and prayer for the day. Anyway, I was listening to an interview with an exceptionally boring man who ran a political Blog. This wanker was getting 10-20,000 hits a day on his site. What a cunt! At future projections it'll take me 16 years to get 10,000 hits! Asked what was his secret of blogging, he said, it's simple, you have to blog every day! No matter how you feel. Whether you have something worthwhile to say or not. This forces you to talk (type) about something different ever day. Keepin' it fresh, keepin' it real, hangin' with the homies, talkin' like a bell-end!

You know what, he's right! He's fucking boring and he gets nearly twenty thousand hits a day! My life is fairly boring and what do I get, bored and even more boring! So funny or not, boring or not. I'm gonna write more. Blog more. Even if I think it's rubbish. That's the key to a blog, it's a log, of stuff about my life, boring or interesting, sad or funny.

I should and I will do more. I owe it to myself, my life owes it to me and the internet deserves to be poisoned by my shit!

Cheers muckers!