Miles's blog

I have not been blogging much lately.  You would think it is not such a big deal to sit down and just write something, anything, every single day.  And really, it should not be a big deal.  But just to think of an idea is hard sometimes.  I don’t generally write about my life very much, which is actually contrary to when I first started blogging.

I first started writing blogs while at CDAC.  The main reason was to keep everyone up to date on what was happening.  I would generally talk about my day, not to promote myself but to be the eyes and ears of everyone across the state as to what was happening on a state level.  It is easy to be so focused on your job that you lose track of being part of a greater whole.  Those blogs were pretty easy to write as I just talked about what I did that day.

At Jeffco I changed a little.  Most of my days there were so mundane that there was nothing much to write about.  I tried to restrict most of my writing to topics connected to prosecution.  The blogs became much more irregular then.  Often that was because I was so busy I never found the time, but mostly it was a reflection that I just did not have a lot to say.

After I left Jeffco I was free to blog about whatever I wanted, the problem was I had no idea what to write about most of the time.  I could not write about myself because writing the blog was all I did every day.  (Obviously I have solved the problem today by writing about blogging itself but I can only do that once. However, I am desperate, so I resorted to this cheap ploy.)  Lots of times I use the newspaper or tv news to generate ideas, but many days ideas just never come.  

Throughout it all I have attempted from time to time to write something funny.  Of course, these are the most popular blogs, but they are also the most difficult to write.  Try to be funny on demand.  It is not easy, which, I suppose why stand up comedians can make so much money.  I don’t like to just write humorous blogs all the time because I think that is a cop out.  I should have something more substantial to write about than what I would buy if I won the lottery.  And with the demise of Rick Santorum I lost the chance to both write something humorous and political at the same time.  

I do promise to write more often.  I will try to get something down every day, but on days I go to New York it can be difficult to find the time.  I appreciate all of you (both of you?) who read these things.  If you have any ideas for blogs let me know.  I am thinking of switching to wordpress because I think that is a better site, but I have to spend some time on using it.  

I am back in Stamford now, back from vacation and without excuse for not blogging. I will try to be more diligent.