I've watched professional League of Legends for a while, but only intermittently actually played it. Actually, if I'm being honest, I almost never actually play - a detail I've usually attributed to being on the North American server despite not actually being in North America much, thus resulting in some rather punishing lag problems.
Now that I actually am in the US again, though, I think I'm going to try to get back into that. And one of the best ways I can think of to force myself to do it is to tell other people I am. So for the weeks where I do actually play, I'll be posting about that in addition to the normal weekly post. I won't be able to play every week - unfortunately my day job poses some obstacles to that - but I'll play as much as I can.
(Why I don't just stream matches is an interesting question - and the short answer is that I'm not quite comfortable with the idea yet. It may happen in the future, but I wouldn't count on it.)
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Sunday, May 5, 2019
Sunday, April 28, 2019
One Year of Blogging
In another week or two it will have been a year since I restarted my blog. Which makes now as good a time as any to talk about how it's gone and what I think of the project.
In that time, I've written more than three times as many posts as all of my previous attempts at blogging combined (151 over the past year versus 41 prior to that). The original plan was to write one post a day... anyone that can do basic math can probably tell that didn't last very long, of course. Still, I'm reasonably happy with how things have turned out so far. I set myself a goal like that because I was curious to see how much I liked writing some form of news commentary or review post every day, and "I don't, and would prefer to do it less often than daily" is a perfectly valid result for that experiment.
One of the things I would like to do instead is come up with more series-based posts that I can write in advance, rather than having to find something I consider interesting enough to write about and then actually doing so every day. That's not very easy to do with news commentary unless I'm willing to write about older stories, but I have some ideas for chapter-by-chapter book reviews and some gaming posts that might fit. So I'll be announcing some of those in the next few weeks.
Probably the biggest stress of the whole project is balancing my desire to talk about politics with the fact that I am still in the military and have no desire to damage either the military's reputation or mine with too much partisan rancor. I don't think there's much I can actually do about it until I either stop blogging or stop being in the military, but I do try to keep myself focused on facts and policy rather than the personal attacks that are all too common in political discussions. Worrying about whether I'm actually keeping myself on the right side of the line is still stressful, though.
As always, feedback is appreciated. I don't think there are more than a tiny handful of people that are actually reading this blog, but for those of you that are, thanks.
In that time, I've written more than three times as many posts as all of my previous attempts at blogging combined (151 over the past year versus 41 prior to that). The original plan was to write one post a day... anyone that can do basic math can probably tell that didn't last very long, of course. Still, I'm reasonably happy with how things have turned out so far. I set myself a goal like that because I was curious to see how much I liked writing some form of news commentary or review post every day, and "I don't, and would prefer to do it less often than daily" is a perfectly valid result for that experiment.
One of the things I would like to do instead is come up with more series-based posts that I can write in advance, rather than having to find something I consider interesting enough to write about and then actually doing so every day. That's not very easy to do with news commentary unless I'm willing to write about older stories, but I have some ideas for chapter-by-chapter book reviews and some gaming posts that might fit. So I'll be announcing some of those in the next few weeks.
Probably the biggest stress of the whole project is balancing my desire to talk about politics with the fact that I am still in the military and have no desire to damage either the military's reputation or mine with too much partisan rancor. I don't think there's much I can actually do about it until I either stop blogging or stop being in the military, but I do try to keep myself focused on facts and policy rather than the personal attacks that are all too common in political discussions. Worrying about whether I'm actually keeping myself on the right side of the line is still stressful, though.
As always, feedback is appreciated. I don't think there are more than a tiny handful of people that are actually reading this blog, but for those of you that are, thanks.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
New Schedule
First, as is fairly obvious, I'm back from my break and making blog posts again.
However, I am going to change the schedule a bit. I don't really have time to post something every single day anymore, unfortunately, so I'm going to make one post per week on Saturdays. There may be additional posts if something particularly interesting or easy to write about catches my attention, but those will be a bit more irregular.
However, I am going to change the schedule a bit. I don't really have time to post something every single day anymore, unfortunately, so I'm going to make one post per week on Saturdays. There may be additional posts if something particularly interesting or easy to write about catches my attention, but those will be a bit more irregular.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Short Break
I'm not going to be doing the normal daily posts during weekdays for a little while. There may be the occasional game review post, but I don't have time right now to do more than that.
Regular posts should resume in the second week of March.
Regular posts should resume in the second week of March.
Monday, September 17, 2018
Schedule changes/New post series
Quick housekeeping post:
I'm going to formalize something I've already been doing and state that I'll be doing one post every weekday and skipping the weekends.
I may at some point decide to skip a day during the week as well and make four posts a week instead of five, but for now I'm still going for every weekday.
Also I've started trying to actually use the tags. This is actually more for my benefit than anyone else's - now that I've realized that I'll quickly end up with a large number of posts in my blog's history, I'd like to make sure I can sort through them more easily. That way if I end up talking about the same topic multiple times (which I will), I can easily find whatever I've already got on that topic. Whether or not I go through the posts I've written in the last two months and add tags... well, file that under "would be nice eventually", which is probably code for "not going to happen".
I'm going to formalize something I've already been doing and state that I'll be doing one post every weekday and skipping the weekends.
I may at some point decide to skip a day during the week as well and make four posts a week instead of five, but for now I'm still going for every weekday.
Also I've started trying to actually use the tags. This is actually more for my benefit than anyone else's - now that I've realized that I'll quickly end up with a large number of posts in my blog's history, I'd like to make sure I can sort through them more easily. That way if I end up talking about the same topic multiple times (which I will), I can easily find whatever I've already got on that topic. Whether or not I go through the posts I've written in the last two months and add tags... well, file that under "would be nice eventually", which is probably code for "not going to happen".
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