Back to the Blog!

Gosh I can't remember the last time I actually blogged about anything.  It's not that I lost interest in writing things, in my mind I would have these great blogs going on all the time - about my geeky life, my cooking and my reading - none of these things have stopped at all but my blogging about them died a few years ago and I was having some difficulty finding the energy to return to it.

Okay, I admit it, I got into a funk.  So much has been going on that it was hard for me to actually concentrate on the less important things in life - like what to eat, how to get up in the morning and how to make it to work on time, if at all.  Various ailments began to ail me, I was inflicted by numerous inflictions and ultimately, I didn't want to bore anybody with what I considered was my dull life.

Of course, my life was anything but dull and if I had written about any of it, I'm sure I would received more hits than the paltry few I was getting here before.  I don't actually really care anymore if anybody reads my words - that's actually never been that important to me.  For me, it was actually being able to be honest about what I was going through, what I was feeling.  For the brief time that I am here on this planet, I feel sometimes I need to remind myself what it is that I am doing, thinking, and reading.

So here we are in February 2016 and I still haven't finished that list of 100 books to read.  Do I feel like I've failed?  Fuck no.  What it actually did was spark within me a desire to read again, to write about it and to share with anyone who bothered to listen.  I haven't stopped, I just haven't shared anything on-line for about three years.  Unless you count Facebook, which is a place where I still regularly post inappropriate comments.  Well, inappropriate if you think that Facebook is like a public bar where you can never talk about politics and/or religion.  Yeah, that's me in the corner, drinking my cider and not being afraid ever to open my mouth and blurt out an opinion about that.

So here's me back again, ready to start telling you all about what I'm reading and how much I'm enjoying it.  I doubt I'll cover 100 books this year, but I'm aiming for about 50 at least.  I visit my local library here in Watford town every week now and pick up one of their "hot picks".  It's like going into a bookstore somewhere in outback Australia and checking out their top twenty books of the month.  They don't change very often and sometimes the pickings are rather slim - well, the library is seriously underfunded (as, sadly, most public libraries are nowadays).  What it does for me, however, is force me to read stuff that I wouldn't normally consider and I have to read them within a week as that is how long I'm allowed to loan them for (yes, technically I could renew them, but I'm not picking the Complete Works of Shakespeare, these are books that are meant to be devoured rather quickly).

I've read more than a few already and of course have written the reviews in my head, they just haven't managed to coerce my fingers to tap them out into this little space, but do stay tuned, I'm sure I will get something up fairly soon.  After all, I've managed to type out this little intro haven't I?