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Friday, 1 April 2011

Why I'm Quitting Blogging

Posted on 06:02 by hony
I honestly can't remember an optimistic post I've done lately. I either write sceptical and/or cynical posts about domestic environmental policy or I wax poetic about my kid. Certainly, the point of this blog wasn't to be some sort of revolutionary source of political content...I know I know too little about that stuff to ever be a serious voice.
But I did feel like I could make a contribution; engineering blogs are few and far between and I thought I could make one that people enjoyed. I was wrong.

In any case, I really want to spend some time reading fiction again. Reading Master and Commander has put the itch in me to bury myself in other worlds again, like I did during my teenage years. I think I'll concentrate on that for a year or so. I also have a stack of projects in my garage I need to finish. And as always, the holy grail, the magnum opus...my exoskeleton, continues to revolve in the factory of my brain asking me to try to build it. I also want to try to write a book, a work of fiction I have outlined in some detail, and then epub it on Amazon. In any case, I have a lot of things I'd like to do for myself that don't involve this blog. Spending more time with my wife and daughter would be nice, too.

In any case, this decision didn't come lightly. For those of you who are regular readers, I recommend you reinvest that time doing yoga, or better yet, reading about science.

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