I wanted to start this blog with a funny anecdote. Or a serious, thought out discussion of one of the various things I've been thinking about lately. But when I try to get to the point, I'm having trouble making something I feel worthwhile. So, this is a great way to start a new blog, huh?

Anyway, I have tried to blog on and off in the past couple years after mostly abandoning Livejournal, which I wrote in frequently (Apparently 1967 entries between May 2001 - April 2009.) I suppose I could keep updating there, but the social network I once had there has dwindled. While writing this post I've stopped a couple times to look at an exported copy of my journal...there are some good stories there. I want to export it to PDF and stick it on my e-reader, but I'm afraid I might get nostalgic over the whole thing.

I was trying to find an old post I think I wrote, but failed. The idea has to do with being in a creative slump. This happened to me in a big way awhile back; I was feeling like I couldn't output anything regardless of context that required some originality on my part. I had devised a way to deal with it, and that was to just go into a deep learning/observation mode, where I didn't worry about output, just input.

I don't think that works these days. Reflecting on it, that seems like passivity. To understand something to a useful degree requires thinking about it and inevitably outputting something. So forcing it is OK. Even if the result is bad. Like today's blog post.