THE STATE OF THE SOCKS
(Posted 2003-09-14 13:34:51 by basscomm)

I know that most people do their reflections on their respective sites on
anniversary dates. Bah, that's too far away. I don't want to wait until
January if I have no real reason to. 

I alluded, in an earlier article (on a whole other website [ /2002/ ], to
envisioning this site as some sort of gaming news site where I would have
stories about comings and goings, new games, reviews, and the occasional
_whatever_. Since you're reading this now, it's safe to assume that that
didn't happen exactly how I envisioned it, mostly because other sites do
the same thing that I wanted to do, and much better. 

Having spare time is definately a problem. I have a few alternatives when
it comes to running a site. I can quit my 'real' job and try to make money
at being a webmaster, which I don't see happening in the near future, or I
can just keep on having fun with it, providing content for free, which
seems more likely. 

It's fairly obvious that now the site has turned into more of a blog style.
It's the wave of the present. Everyone, their cat, and their cat's mother
has a blog. Most of them, though, are just painfully boring to read. I do
not want this site to turn into some kind of "I went to the mall today and
got a Coke, but the guy behind the counter totally screwed up and gave me a
Diet Coke instead. I smiled, walked around the corner and threw the almost
full thing away. That'll show 'im" kind of blog. I just don't find that
reading about other people's personal lives and experiences terribly
interesting. Maybe that's a character flaw. I don't particularly like
reality-based TV either. 

So what does that mean that this site is going to be? Well, that's
something that I'm not entirely sure about. It'll be different than what's
been here. 

Probably. 

Someone email me a Boot to the Head if I start talking about how my shoes
were knotted up this morning or how the server put mayonnaise on my
sandwich instead of mustard that day or the Mountain Dew I drank tasted
like Mountain Wizz or etc. etc. 


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There are 2 comments on this post:

Comment #1 by The Year « Exposing my socks to the world (  ) on
2011-06-05 06:52:01
[...] that whole reflection thing. I already had a kind of reflection on
the site a while ago so there's no real need to go into that again, so
let's look at some of the games that [...]

Comment #2 by Anniversaries « Exposing my socks to the world (  ) on
2012-12-17 14:46:37
[...] every day and I would make enough money somehow to pay my bills and
sustain my hobby, but that never seemed to materialize. I also tried my
hand at news-reporting for a while. Each time, though, for whatever reason,
it [...]


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