Real Opinions

As I mention before, sometimes I wish I could just drop everything and convey my thoughts into the blog right away, complete with the perfect title and content, to be revised at leisure. Since that doesn't always happen, in fact it rarely happens, I think I'll need to start taking more notes, such as the notes I took a little while ago.

This reminds me a little of the notes I used to take when my now wife and I were writing emails and letters on a regular basis. I'd think of something I wanted to share with her and I had to keep track of it since I wasn't at a computer just then. Sometimes the list would only be 2 items long, but that's two items that weren't lost to the ether.

Yesterday I had some down time at work (gasp, I know) and I took some time to actually compose an entry, in txt. By the time it was time for me to get going and join a meeting I had quite a bit of stuff, I really can type pretty fast even with all my backspacing going on, and frankly most of it is just ramble scramble. There was a good bit about "why are there gays in the world again? I just don't get it" and some more about other stuff I just don't get and ramble about, but one area of interest I might actually post is about gay marriage and how I'm pretty sure I'm not for it, and I don't think anyone else should be for it either.

Side comment: I like to use words like 'pretty sure' and 'more than likely' and 'by all accounts' and so on, as a way of sounding humble, but I have to admit underlying those phrases is a simple stubbornness that resists change, even when I've left the topic on unblack-and-white terms. At work I have to go back and edit that sort of thing out, since early in this job I was called on it several times till I learned it's not what people want to see on serious .docs, .xls or .ppts (or .vsds for that matter). I also go back and edit for the same thing when writing in a professional manner to church people and more recently the condominium association members.

Also: In my writing I tend to use lists of things even when not needed, such as 'detailed and highly delineated,' when detailed would do as well. When talking espeically I sometimes say something has two reasons: 1) blah blah and 2) but at number two I'd have to scrounge up something because I haven't always come up with another reason it just sounded good to have more than one reason. This is less of a habit than what it used to be, but I know it's still there. I used to try to jam 3 or 4 reasons even.

I also have an account over at Vox, but seriously how many accounts do I really need. I'm wishing I was rich, I'd give myself a domain and moveable type and just have a blog that way. On the other hand at my stage I don't think there's a huge benefit in that, at least not yet.

Cheers!