Completed the prior post and then went back through the blog looking for a prior entry listing the elements of a major document preparation effort. I couldn’t find the post for which I was looking. But I arrived at some other blog observations.

There are now 72 blog entries. That is a lot of text. So much text that I can no longer immediately locate the blog post that I wished to reference and enter as a link in this post.

Writing blog posts is much easier when I do it on a regular basis. In early December an entry was made almost every day. It was relatively easy to make these sequential posts. Somehow the daily effort improved my performance. With yesterday’s post I noticed a sense of difficulty. Whatever facility I had derived from writing a series of blog posts had disappeared in the interval between the early December series and this post. Do my skills really atrophy that quickly?

One reason for the 10 day gap is that creating these posts represents a significant amount of effort. I started reviewing my behaviour early yesterday afternoon, jotted down notes and insights during the rest of the day, then based yesterday’s blog entry on these notes. I have just finished editing yesterday’s post and it is now 1:00 o’clock on December 21st. So an entire 12 hour day has been devoted to writing a single post.

Posts are skipped because the degree of effort involved leaves little time to do anything else. I am very slow in all that I do.

In conducting my quick review of prior posts, I had a further insight. I post to the blog when I experience a difficulty, or a problem. Yesterday I slept in till after midday, acknowledged this as a negative behaviour and spent time trying to understand what provoked it. Introspection took up most of the afternoon. Each insight was recorded in my “Accident Log.” Writing the narrative provoked further understanding and insight. After polishing, yesterday’s notes were posted to the blog (there is more material associated with today’s events. It will form the basis for the next several posts).

The key takeaway is that when I encounter a problem, or identify an issue, my immediate response is an attempt at understanding, an attempt to situate the issue within my life context. That contextualization involves the writing of an explanatory narrative. As a result, the blog tends to have a strong bias toward problems and difficulties. It is not a balanced or complete record. But then most newspapers are also filled with negative events. Good news is rarely newsworthy.