Checkerboard

So did you notice?  If you look at the calendar to the left, can you see the pattern? For the month of September, I posted every other day, on the even days, so that I made a checkerboard pattern on the calendar.

Why? Not sure.  I noticed it during the first week in July that I had posted every other day and it was making a pattern.  I kept it up throughout that month, on the odd days, and it made a checkerboard pattern.  Since I didn’t start it until the first full week of July, it didn’t create a pattern for the whole month.  Thus, on September 2^nd, I decided to try it for a whole month.

It turned out to be a little more difficult than I thought.  I do have a policy for my blog where I don’t let more than two days pass without posting.  But that gives me two days to think of something to write.  Posting every other day proved to be challenging because I didn’t always have something right at the top of my head that I wanted to write.  But that just meant I had to think harder on the days I wasn’t writing so I could post something the next day.  I also had to skip recognizing events on the day they happened.  I acknowledged the first day of fall on the first full day of fall. I recognized Mom during the week of the anniversary of her death rather than on the exact day.  I also had a few ideas pass through my brain that might have made interesting postings but, because it was on a day I wasn’t going to post, the idea just flitted away.  I probably should have written them down but I’m not in the habit yet of carrying around a notebook to note ideas. It is a habit I am hoping to learn someday.

Of course, this checkerboard pattern also relieved a little pressure.  My brother seems to post to his blog continually (http://dberri.wordpress.com/) and, since I subscribe to it, every time I get an e-mail that he just posted, it makes me feel like I need to post to my blog.  Since I was only posting every other day, on the days I wasn’t supposed to, I didn’t feel that pressure to get up and write something in my blog just because he posted to his.

Having just re-read what I just wrote, let us analyze two things I noticed.  One is that I seemed to be a little competitive when it comes to my brother.  Since his blog is completely different from mine and he also has a different schedule than I do (being as he is a college professor), his blog postings should have no bearing whatsoever on what or when I post to my blog. The second thing I noticed is that I seem to get caught up in silly things that really aren’t important in the grand scheme of things.  Granted the checkerboard pattern thing looks cool but I was probably the only person on Planet Earth that noticed and, other than the interesting pattern it made on the calendar, it really served no purpose whatsoever.

That said, I have been doing this blog thing now for one year and four months.  As time goes on, I probably will do other silly things like make other patterns on the calendar or do a series of postings on something that is completely irrelevant or silly.  Just because I can. Which is why I write this blog.  Just because I can.