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I’ve realized that whenever I promise to do something regarding this blog, I don’t end up doing it. For instance, a couple of weeks ago I promised to write a Harry Potter 5 review. Never happened. I started it - I wrote about a paragraph - but by the time I felt like coming back to it the movie was weeks old.

If I say that I’ll take lots of pictures before a vacation, I usually only take a few. But if I don’t say anything, I come back with lots. It happened again just recently… at the beginning of June I said I wouldn’t be able to post much then, but that I would post like I had been previously (approximately every day) once July came around. I made only 1 more post in July then I did in June.

See? Is that enough? It’s a jinx! Whenever I say I’ll do something, I never end up doing! So, I promise to take zero photos while in Florida next week, and I promise to post very little in August. There. Let’s see what happens.

Have you noticed that I’ve had a post every single day for the past month? Well, I have.

Unfortunately, starting this week I’m going to take a break from the daily posts to focus on school. There’s only 1 week of real school left for me, but then I have a week and a half of PBAs (Performance Based Assessments) which are basically a combination of final tests and big projects.

So I’ll be working on a bunch of projects and studying a lot for the next 3 weeks, so I probably won’t be able to post very often. And then, we’re going to Colorado for another week, so I won’t be back until June 27th. But after all of that it’ll be summer and I will be able to resume my regular postings.

I won’t completely stop posting during June, I just won’t be able to post every day like I have this past month. So I’ll probably have 2 to 5 posts a week. I’m very sorry!

My friend Aaron has this to say about his almost dead blog:

So, the point is, why should I be blogging now, with a teeny-weeny audience. Forget the lack of payment, who even is going to read this? I guess this is the realization that all bloggers avoid, because it causes their entire world to self-destruct in on them. In the end, why do I or anyone else have a blog, a tumblelog, a Twitter, etc? What’s the point of it all? To put my existence on every corner of the web? Make my ego bigger? I honestly do not know.

When I originally started blogging on Blogger in 2004, 2 people read it: My mom and my dad. But then my grandparents started reading it. Then my aunts and uncles, and more of my family. Then, when Aaron and I created the Teen Tech Buzz a couple of other readers caught on. But I’m not sure how regurally they read it. Sure, not everyone who reads this posts a comment, but I’d be surprised if I have more than 10 regular readers of this blog. So really my audience is small. But enough people read it for me to keep blogging.

If I were blogging for money it would take some the fun away. I would start posting just to have posts, and I wouldn’t be having fun anymore. Sure, it’s fun to get paid - but it’s not always a good thing for your overall blog quality.

Yes, to some extent I agree with Aaron. Blogging for a small (more like nonexistent) audience is tough. If you’re not paid, half the motive is gone. And if you don’t have a large audience, then some may say that that’s the other half. But I don’t think so. I continue to blog because I enjoy it. I enjoy posting about my interests, and I enjoy the occasinal feedback that I get in the comments.

And I like to think that in 30 years I’ll be able to look back at an archive of my life and my intrests as time goes by. And that’s cool enough for me to set aside 15 minutes a night to make a blog post.