One of the things I always find fascinating about the web community - and I am one of those folks from back in the pioneer days when everything was telnet and text - bad text at that - and how it tends to find things to help people waste their time.

Blogs are really just the newest phase.

There were chat rooms - but even before there were chat rooms there were spaces where we would post a message and hit refresh 100xs until a new message popped up - chat rooms using html and post.  Before that was Usenet - which is still out there, like a grandfather than only the most loving children visit. 

Blogs take it a step further, though.  These are all about the blogger - and people can choose to respond or not, but who cares what they do.  If no one responds, or reads this ever - it doesn't really change anything about my life.  I'm putting it out there in case a friend (in the real world) comes across my ID and wants to read something I put out there.  So, here it is, potential friend I haven't talked to in a while!  I hope this makes you happy!.

I have friends who religiously post.  Check out http://theamazingpudding.blogspot.com/  This belongs to my good friend Rick Fonte.  Rick is unusual in that he was never one for technology.  He's a director, though, so I suppose he got his technical feet under him and seems to be doing ok now.  But he posts all the time.  I guarantee I won't do it nearly 1/8 the time he does.  But, I have always wondered why he does it so religiously.

My cousin Dan had a blog - http://dkamis.livejournal.com/ - but he stopped updating it about 2 years ago.  I think that's probably what happens to most of us who blog.  I mean, if I was writing things that people really wanted to read, why wouldn't I do it for a newspaper or a magazine?  I mean, getting paid is the American way, isn't it?

Anyway, the point of blogging for me tonight is to help me stay up.  My youngest son Nate is not progressing as we would like to see in the Babywise program

(If you don't have kids yet, go buy "On Becoming Babywise - ISBN: 0971453209 .  For that matter, get the "New Fathers Guide to ... series, too.  The first one is ISBN: 0789208156.  You do not have any idea how little the world cares about Dad's until you have a kid, and this book is our bible). 

He's almost 7 weeks but isnt regularly sleeping 4-5 hours yet at night.  Part of the problem is he is the second kid, so we don't want him to wake the first, and tend to respond to his crying a lot more than we ever did for Peter.  So, we're trying a new plan tonight.  Nate is sleeping in a different room (not ours - we only have 2 bedrooms), but I am staying up to make sure our cat (Phoebe - who was a very smelly cat when we adopted her, but the smell has since gone away) doesn't attack the baby and that the baby doesn't wake up my wife until his next feeding.

Wish me luck.  Perhaps if people do respond to this, I will start submitting it to a newspaper so I can make money.  Or, I can just post here.

Ciao!