Burning Out


Blog / Thursday, December 24th, 2015

I’ve been away for a while and for some reason I’ve been okay with that thought. It lingered at the back of my mind the whole time like, “I haven’t blogged in a while and I really, really should put something up,” but there never was just enough pull to get me away from the other things in my life. Part of me wonders if blogging was a phase in my life, a really long phase, that I’ve moved past now for some reason or another. The other part of me files it under things I wish I had more time to do but because I’m writing all day at work, I don’t want to do it when I get home because I’m just plain exhausted.

There are a hundred things I would love to do with this domain if I stopped blogging. I’d want to turn it into one of my expansive projects which never really end up having a great impact on the world, but for me are a form of stress relief. There’s something about writing a chunk of code to solve a problem my mind has worked over and over a thousand times that is rather soothing to me. Take, for example, a project I’m not sure I ever mentioned on here before, my Grammar Checker. I think I teased this in ten different blog posts over the course of a year or so. The final product isn’t very pretty, but it does a lot which I find helpful in my writing. I also have a list of enhancements I want to add, sitting in my inbox. I could take this domain and turn it solely into a home for the Grammar Checker. Or I could learn CSS animation and create some elaborate project here or I leave it all as a shrine to a former life of mine. There’s so much to I could do, but I doubt any of it will ever get done because frankly, I don’t have the time for it.

A lot of my free time on the computer over the past year has been to improve FriendShipMate.com, and improve it I did. I got the code to a point where the site is stable, functional, and pretty to look at (at least compared to what it used to look like). My biggest struggle has been getting the word out about it.  I went all in on promoting it in October and November but I just burned myself out. I’m going to work on time management for promoting it in the new year. In the meantime, you should check it out and tell your friends.

I’m going to try to make it back here and write in a week, to recap the year (what a year it has been!). I’m hoping you won’t need to, but do try to keep me honest!

One Reply to “Burning Out”

  1. Danny, I know how you feel. I’ve also been blogging less and less these days, thinking also that perhaps it was a long-ish phase that is coming to an end. But also, like you, after working all day I just don’t feel I have energy to put into blogging. Hope all is well on your end.

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