An Intent
It’s a busy day, at the start of what will likely be a busy week, during a busy month; what better time to resurrect this blog? Four months ago when I paid the renewal fee on my hosting package and the domain name? Or New Year’s Day at the point when everyone is embarking on resolutions and I could have declared an intention to write every day? Things didn’t go so well last time I resolved to any form of blogging schedule, it’s best I avoid resolutions. I’ll simply have an intent to write regularly, to keep this site updated with whatever I like.
I have numerous ideas that have no place on my main website. They tend to arrive at inconvenient moments – when I’m out on the bike or about to fall asleep – and disappear before I reach a keyboard; brief moments of apparent inspiration that amount to nothing. A moment arrived earlier this afternoon, as I walked over the hill to buy tools to dismantle a futon I composed a clever first post in the back of my head. At some point during the dismantling of that futon or the loading of my car with numerous boxes the inspiration vanished. Instead I am stuck with this.
The plan: I will not write much, but I will write often; keeping things short in the hope this will keep me writing. I will draw ideas from anything that doesn’t belong on the sports blog – the books I read, the food I cook and wines I drink… There’s a rich vein of not-triathlon that forms the larger part of my life and I shall put it here.
Of course we’ve been here before…
Posted by Russ on 9-1-2012
