Music

Unlike so many of my friends, I'm not especially into music. For me, except for the occasional catchy tune, music doesn't really mean anything. Let's take a little trip to facebook, shall we? For the most part on my friends page's, the category that has the most "likes" is music, with some liking over 100 artists and bands, stretching from all sorts of genres. Then look at my page: I have one music like. Ouch.

I don't know, music just isn't my thing. I can't tell the difference between a good band and a terrible band, anyway.

Sorry, this was kind of short. And I still have one more post to do...

Twitter

I don't like Twitter. One day I made one, because I was bored and wanted to check something. That done, I abandoned it. Several months later my competition (don't ask me how) found it. I've used it for occasional communication (such as sending a reminder to blog). But I haven't sent a *real* tweet. Mostly because of the characters restriction.

All tweets must be 140 characters or less. That's a few sentences. Without resorting to "text talk" acronyms, it is hard to convey a complex thought. That character restriction is a constant barrier, preventing me from using big words. That reason alone is cause for disliking it.

Not to mention the fact that one's feed can easily get clogged with pointless tweets, while the less frequent, but better thought out tweets from other people are lost in a sea of spam.

MineCraft

Back on the weekend from camp, and trying to write seven blog posts in a sleep depriven state. So, of course, I play Minecraft. Minecraft, if you haven't heard of it before (which is unlikely), is a sandbox/adventure game. Like most people, I started playing Minecraft on the free version. I appreciated the sandbox style of being able to build whatever one desired, despite the fact that I lacked the ability to construct magnificent structures.

I enjoyed going on multiplayer servers because I could see other people's buildings. But the things that I built on multiplayer servers were often destroyed by mean players (also known as "griefers").

For awhile I was content with free version, the beta one looking boring and monotonous. Eventually I was convinced to shell out twenty dollars and buy the beta version. At first I had a great time, but after a few days I got bored. Thus, my interest never took off with single player of beta.

However, what otherwise would have been a drab and depressing story, didn't end on a sad note. Unbeknownst to myself, some friends of mine had started a multiplayer server for the beta version. All the things I liked about single player of the beta version melded with the multiplayer mode from the free version. I didn't have to worry about people wrecking my buildings, because all of the people that go on the server have to know my friends.

Not Rushing Beauty

When you look at a tree, you might simply just see a tree. Or, you might see a magnificent wonder of nature, uniquely stunning in every detail. But, what happens when you stare at that same tree for several hours? Wouldn't the experience of inspecting this tree increase by a tenfold?

But, most people won't do that, possibly because we live in a society that is so focused on entertainment and getting as much of it as we can as fast as we can. Thus, to many it would seem idiotic to stare at a tree for hours on end.

I know that the internet is filled with "stop and smell the roses" types of blog posts. Still, not many people really listen. Or, we only pay attention to things that could be considered conventional beauty, such as a flower, canyon, or sunset. Take for example, a door. No one looks twice at a door, assuming that it's only use is to separate different rooms. But, some handles are actually really cool. And although the designs aren't very often intricate, they are still very nice. Actually, I should probably stop staring at my door now. It's weird.

And what about buildings? Except for the owner, who appreciates the effort put into them? And grass as well. When was the last time you inspected a piece of grass?

I wish that I could go farther into this topic, but I still have tons of other posts to write.

Socially Tired

Lately, I seem to be developing slight anti-social tendencies. Awesome.

Because I'm at camp 24/7 (except for weekends) this month, I've been around people a lot lately. And I'm kind of tired of people in general. The exchange of social pleasantries has become somewhat exhausting.

People have become, at times, boring. Silence on the other hand, has become calming. I'm not avoiding people completely, after all, they are only anti-social tendencies, I haven't reached a stage that I dislike people, I just get tired of them after awhile.

What is the reason for being socially overwhelmed? Is it partially because I am homeschooled, and thus have had less social interactions than others, or is it my natural personality?

At the same time, I'm loving being around little children more and more. Except for the occasional string of long words put into an amusing sentence, little kids enjoy being around you just because you are you.

Looking over this post, it seems a lot weirder than I intended, like I plan to become a hermit or something. Actually, that might not be a bad idea...

That's Cool...

I just figured something out. A neat feature that blogspot has is that it allows me to write a post ahead of time, and then it will post is at a set date and time, even if I'm away from the computer. Would you guys prefer me doing that, to prevent getting overwhelmed and then possibly missing a good post (yeah right), or would it be best for me to simply post them all today, so as to prevent waiting? It is really just a question between delayed gratification and immediate gratification.

Blogging

So, I've been in this blogging competition for almost two months. Wow. It has been quite an experience. By far the hardest part has been thinking up of ideas for posts. At the start anyway. Then in the middle, I kind of got into the flow. Finding a new idea? Takes about two seconds. Now, not so much. Although one thing that I have learned is that there is always new ideas out there, I've also learned that you can only think up so many in a period of time. In other words, I've went bankrupt when it comes to ideas. Now, your first reaction might be that this is yet another of those "blogging about not being able to blog" posts. Well, that might or might not be true. We'll see how it works out.

Due to having a blog, I have gotten into the habit of reading other people's blogs. What I find is that my blog really isn't that good. I make a decent post every now and then, but the overall quality is pretty low. And yet, I intend to keep on blogging. One, so that I get better. Two, so that my competition with Abby and Ryan can continue and Three, I want a record of how I was like now.

When I get old, what will I think of this blog? Will I be embarrassed of this pathetic excuse for writing, or will I be glad that I got an early start at writing so much so quickly? Will I keep on writing on this blog, for years and years? Will I eventually have thousands of different posts about all sorts of different subject?

That's thing about having this blog, how long until I simply get tired and quit? Many perfectly good blogs on the internet have been abandoned because the owner became too busy with real life. At the very least, bloggers without proper motivation blog at a very, very slow rate. For example, if I did not have this blogging competition, I most likely would have blogged roughly a tenth in the last two months as I have.