having one of those cliche bouts of looking over my site and realizing how much time goes by between posts, i had the cliche thought of making the cliche resolution to try and post every day for a while to get some juices flowing again, and this is the requisite cliche post in which i declare the above cliche intention.

i might take weekends off though because i spend very little time at the computer on weekends. and this is something i’ve wondered at… i would consider myself somewhat of a web junkie in that when i get going, i’m ALL over the net consuming information at a blinding pace — faster, i’m sure, than could result in any valuable retention of said information. but that’s when i’m in surfing mode, which is between projects at work or on a weeknight when i go home and decide it’s ‘finding some new music night’ or ‘researching that next major purchase night’ or something like that.

serious webaholics, i know, wake up and crawl straight to their computers for more surfing. i know some of those people, and wonder if i should ascend to that level of connectedness, and what that might get me. as it is, even when i’m home all day on the weekend, i only check in to see if i’ve got any emails, otherwise it’s almost all books, tivo, crosswords, video games, netflix… most still screen-based, but i guess i look at leisure time as time to be spent with leisure media, and for me the internet falls either into functional or at least ‘curiosity’ media.

how blogger fits in i guess would be, ideally, the part where i take a step back from all the intake and try to form some sort of personally relevant insight, or at least coherent analysis to aid in digestion and retention of the supposed value, of the subjects of my rabid consumption. otherwise it’s just a life of flickering data washing over me from all points with nothing gained.

that’s how i’m thinking anyway. hopefully if i stick to it for a bit the value will increase over time as i readjust into thinking a little more and not just gouging on words like a literary bulimic.