Thoughts

I spent a great deal of time at work, well working frankly, but I also read a few blogs about skating and you know it occurs to me, many of those blogs are incredibly boring! I'm not saying that any in the Blog Roll are bad it is just honestly, who cares what other people have achieved in practice? Its one thing to say, well I won Duluth in a time of 56:32 beating the previous, Chad Hendrick's, record by almost a minute! But if the Blog post is simply I did well today, or I did bad today, and I'm actually referring to my own post here, then my god what a boring read!

When I started this blog I had two goals:

1. Make regular (ideally daily posts)
2. Write quality stuff that people would want to read even if they don't skate, but try to focus on skating.

I realise now that the two points are nearly contradictory, I am not sufficiently focused on inline skating that I can write interesting stuff right through winter and I don't do ice. Even if I did do ice, or it was summer, I suspect it is impossible to write stuff every day that people will find interesting.

So what to do? Do I give up on the notion that Skater Dreams will focus on skating or do I stay true to the name and sacrifice a major goal of mine. Given my preference for writing and my love of the written word I think I would sooner eat stones then write badly intentionally. I am not saying my writing is always good, or that it is even ever good. Rather I am saying, if I can write well, I'll be damned if I am going to write badly just to stay true to some arbitrary name.

The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. - Junius

So the one piece of news I would like to report on today: a friend of mine, my buddy in Rochester specifically, has asked me to help him start a regular pod cast. Ironically I find myself in the same position with the spoken word as I am with the written word. What to write?

It shall be my intention in the days to follow to occasionally write about skating, if there is something worthy or print, but mostly I plan to make this blog what a blog ought to be, an exploration of self in a public domain. I shall lay bare my inards to anyone who dares to read in the hope that by studying my own entrails I will be not only a better writer but perhaps find topics worthy of the vox populi. Vox populi, vox dei.