The Struggling Blogger

Don’t bother looking for nos. 1 to 7, there aren’t any.

Obviously, by the title alone, you know what kind of post this is – a blog filler. One that you post when you don’t have anything to post.

It’s like doing something, when you don’t know what to do… just to let time pass at least.

You’ve heard of writer’s block. This one isn’t about that.

A blog filler isn’t always borne out of the writer’s inability to come up with something worth reading… I have lots of ideas popping out of my head right now, quite frankly.

But I choose not to do them now… just because I don’t want to.

I don’t know why, but it’s happening quite often lately… thought of it as a case of writer’s block, when in reality, it’s nothing but a simple case of laziness (uh-oh, there goes the image)

Lots of things have contributed to this
- a PC who works fine one moment, and suddenly hangs for more than two minutes
- an intermittent internet connection who was supposed to count speed in mbps instead of kbps
- three kids who got sick alternately (again) and would always call me at any moment
- a nagging case of sleepiness and occasional pain on the wrist area (CTS?)
- and an ego that seems to be taking a rollercoaster ride – up one minute, and extremely low the next, because of some (under)developments which only a few blogging buddies know

The Twitter lurker
Not many people knew it, but we’re having a party at twitter… at least I used to join them.

But this laziness has caught up even on the 140-character board… no smart-alec quips and only occasional tweets of new posts and some RTs.

Unfortunately, unlike a blog post, you can’t tweet a filler tweet. That would be spamming.

The push
When things like these happen, something or someone will definitely push me back on track.

Aside from the occasional push from buddies, it was ‘something’ that pushed me back. Finally! A reward from our dear friend Google after a year of blogging, if you get what I mean.

It’s not much, but it came just in the nick of time.

What now?
Let’s see… Michael Jackson died… Transformers 2 is showing… SONA is upcoming… yes, I do have a lot of topics coming out…

Totally unrelated to all those I mentioned.

Why no. 8?
I thought you’d never ask… why not?

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