routine

Here we are at the end of NaBloPoMo for July 2009. I didn’t write much on the month’s theme of “routine” although the struggle to establish an effective routine is an ongoing concern.

At the beginning of the month, I had hoped to establish some better routines for blogging, dog training and computer maintenance. I think I succeeded in one area only, that of computer maintenance, and particularly if success is equal to having current backups of everything important.

NaBloPoMo has gotten me into the habit of writing daily, but unfortunately I’m having difficulty shifting my writing time from extremely late night to early evening. Early morning was considered and rejected as a good time to write. One must be awake and alert to write. That is not me in the morning.

The dog training routine is now high priority. Freya and Axel both need to be ready for rally obedience trials in October or November. I’ll be training very few totally new exercises to either dog, so the challenge is to keep them (and myself!) from getting bored and sloppy.

(NaBloPoMo | July ’09: 31 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 188 of 274)

Another month has begun. It is July 1, and temperatures have ranged from the high 50s to low 60s throughout the day and night. That’s right, July, in Chicago. I don’t think record lows were set, but it hasn’t been this cold on July 1 since the 1930s. So much for global warming.

I’ve been participating in NaBloPoMo for most of this year, which means I’ve written something here every day so far this year, except during the month of February.

I’m still not totally convinced that I have enough to say, or rather, enough worthwhile and interesting things to say, to blog daily. But as I read through the information glut that is 2009 on the web, having nothing worthwhile to say doesn’t seem to stop most people from saying it anyway. So I’m certainly not alone, and unlike some of those people, at least I spell most of my drivel correctly. So there.

NaBloPoMo has an optional theme every month, and the July theme is “routine.” That’s something I’m finding difficult to apply to blogging, although I know it will help me once I do. Unfortunately, so far my so-called blogging routine consists of watching the 10:00 PM news, flailing around for an interesting topic to write about (sometimes the news helps with this, but not usually since I’m not a political or current events blogger), and trying to put together a couple hundred mostly coherent words before bedtime.

Could use improvement, huh? Maybe we’ll run with that “routine” theme and work on getting some better routines in place for blogging, dog training, and computer maintenance this month.

(NaBloPoMo | July ’09: 1 of 31 | 75% Challenge: 158 of 274)