Tales of a Neophyte Blogger

Okay, I confess: I thought this was going to be easier. The blog that I started on Construction.com over a year ago, Diggin' Deeper, involved me "just" writing and e-mailing pics and our fabulous production people doing the layout, photo sizing and formatting and posting. (Yes, amazingly and ridiculously enough, we do the blog manually. Hopefully that will soon change.) So I figured I'd take an hour or two this weekend -- when I couldn't sleep late last night -- and start a personal blog. I've never particularly wanted to before but on a whim I thought, hey, why not? How tough could it be?

Ha! Wake up and hear the fireworks! I don't find this blogging siteware especially intuitive, and I've spun my wheels, gone around in circles, chased my tail and every other cliche for several hours this afternoon. I *should have been* sorting through the zillions of papers I promised myself I'd go through this long weekend. My fabulous business coach will kill me. How ironic. I used to clean out my drawers or desk to avoid writing and now I'm writing to avoid cleaning out my drawers and desk. Yes, I know it's beautiful outside and I've been out some, but my mission this weekend was to be able to truly get organized. Will I ever learn?

Yes, as a matter of fact, I've learned a lot! When I went to sleep last night at something like 3:00 a.m., I had no pictures in my paltry little one post, I couldn't figure out how to post a picture in my profile ("Hello" siteware isn't intuitive to me either). But now I have all of that down pat (except for some mysterious disappearances as I changed templates or added another posting). Still, it's disappointing that I couldn't figure it all out in a couple of hours. Maybe it's that, as a baby boomer, I have to try harder to master some of this tech stuff I didn't grow up with. Or, maybe I'm just not as smart and I thought I was.