My Blogging History.

My blogging history is atrocious. Lately I've had no motivation to engage in the social networks of...the entire Internet. It's been an ENTIRE YEAR nearly since I last blogged on A Day In The Life of Lemuel.

That's right...I just linked my own blog to my own blog. Deal with it.

It's not to say that no motivation means I haven't tried to connect in different areas of NEWLY DEVELOPING FADS of Internet social networking. In the last month I created a Last.FM music account, a ImInLikeWithYou account, (which is a "social dating slash video game" website). How, you say, do you achieve such a task? That's what I wanted to know when I read it in a Wired article explaining how video games are pervading all society as we know it today. It's has the possibility to be a pretty addicting website...

All of this is on top of my Facebook, my MySpace, my iLike, my Flickr, and my drunken one night stand with Shelfari

I Twitter more than any of these things combined today, which has been sapped of all enjoyment ever since Liz coined it appropriately as "useless haikus" or words to that effect. I'll probably keep on doing it sometime soon.

Of course this blogging comes at the worst possible time since Tuesday I'll be leaving for nearly a month for WLC (Warrior Leaders Course). Basically it's a leadership course to the tune of going to Basic Training all over again. I am NOT looking forward to it. I've had to purchase nearly $140 worth of gear (gloves, flashlights, helmet covers, compasses) that I intended to spend on...well...anything else. I'm headed where I won't be able to access current events (much like Basic Training) or any other frou frou pleasantries that litter my room.

Of course one of the most annoying things is that I won't be there long enough to get a mailing address so I can write a letter, if I were so inclined to do so...

I do believe one of the biggest reasons for the possible return of my blogging is that I really need an activity that will allow me to sit stationary at my computer and sample new bands. An activity that takes concentration, but not so much so that I can't listen and critique new sounds emanating from my now 3+ year old 7.1 Inspire T7700 computer speakers.

For example, while I typed this I decided that contrary to Alternative Press' claims that punk band Against Me!'s new album 'New Wave' is a bold new sound in the face of a band that's struggling with alienating its fans after signing to a major label...that such claims are cock and bull. There old sound was better.

I'm now listening to Jimmy Eat World's older CDs to try and determine if I can love the old JEW as much as I love the new JEW. I'm wary but I must learn to have faith in JEW. They haven't steered me wrong since 'Bleed American' in 2001...

LOL, their band spells Jew...I just realized that...