Well this entire entry is inspired by this quote I found at the last minute. See I have about a million ideas for content on this blog, my problem is that I'm still to new with the technology to figure out how to put my vision on the page. Not that I want all the readers to see everything thats going on in my head at any given moment in time,even if it were a snapshot it would be 1000 words to long. I think this whole blogging thing will get a lot better as I keep doing it. I don't know what the learning curve is on blogging with a high school diploma. I'm sure most college graduates, high school graduates,GED owners, high school drop outs and a few of those monkeys that NASA trains can type faster than I can. Most of them probably spend a lot less time pondering if they have dangling participial at the end of a sentence, and maybe a couple of the college graduates could explain to me what dangling participial means exactly.
What I have learned over the last month is how much time you must invest in your blog. I have spent a ton of time on this lap top over the last month. I started by looking at blogs and reading a lot of articles online about blogging. Then after talking to my family I came up with the idea of sharing my relationship with my son with the world wide web. I have told my son that it doesn't matter if anyone ever reads these posts or not, he would have a valuable resource being able to look back at his childhood, and know what his father was thinking. Looking back at my blog so far I dont think he would learn to much.
I have to be honest – I havent been able to be to honest yet. I have spent loads of time trying to figure out how to work twitter. Time figuring out how to set all these posts up and edit them and download photos. I feel like I have been writing junk so that I have content to mess with. That has to stop. Cause if its not a useful tool for my cave boy then whats the point. And is he really gonna care that the last sentence didnt have a “?” at the end, or that I started this sentence with And, I doubt it. I guess what Im saying is that I have to worry about substance over style, which is cool.
For those of you who dont know I am unemployed. So for 2 months I have been getting up,getting the Cave Boy off to school, having a cup of coffee with the wife, and hitting the gym.(AKA our garage/Man Cave) for an hour, then I'm on the computer. Somedays I'm on all day. I'm reading blogs and researching things I wanna write about, and sporadically job hunting. I've found a ton of interesting people having some great conversations all over the world. Hat tip to The Mark Levin Show http://www.marklevinshow.com/, Pastor Kerry Mackey http://www.kerrymackey.com/, Pro active Dads http://proactivedads.com/, Father 411 http://www.father411.com/, and Play Ground Dads http://playgrounddad.com/ just to name a few.
All these guys can make you think. Think about being a father, and having a good relationship with your son. What is it that you want your son to learn from you, what can you learn from him? What do you want to leave this world knowing your son will pass down to his sons? Deep soul searching questions that more fathers need to ask themselves. So for 2 months I've sat here trying to figure out the answers to all these questions – I go round and round on the answers – for days on end researching – thinking how I could write something profound.
Last night I realized that the answers I'm looking for may come in a day or two ,or a year or two, or 10 years or 20 years. Truth is I dont know when I'll have the answers, maybe somethings were not supposed to know till after. Not everything I write is gonna be profound. Some posts may seem pointless to everyone except Cave Boy and Me – then again those would probably become our favorites.
I dont know how some of these guys get all this stuff done. They have jobs and kids and a wife and they write these beautiful things – I'm unemployed and I cant find enough time to post once a week. I think I'm just gonna start firing out whatever I feel and maybe we can refine the stuff as we go along. I love reading all the different blogs and talking to all the different people but at some point I gotta get up and move around and stop reading and stop googling stuff.
After all this whole thing is supposed to be about a guy spending time with his son – not a guy researching ways to spend time with his son. Cave Boy (CB) and I have been doing a ton of wrestling stuff – we have spent a bunch of time in the garage lifting weights over the last 2 weeks. My sister has been house hunting in our neighborhood for the last 6 weeks. She and her husband and their 2 sons (2yrs and 6months) have been at our house a lot. Its good for CB, he gets to play big brother to them. I have had 2 job interviews and am starting to feel like I will be going back to work sooner than later (knock on wood). So I'm gonna need some discipline of my own to keep a good work / life balance.
Course all this searching for things online have led to me developing a list of new things to buy. I have found boots, fishing poles, camping gear, wrestling singlets, resistance bands, pull-up bars all kinds of stuff. I have even been thinking about doing some father and son PX-90 over the summer. This is where the job thing could come in really handy. Darn 6 lottery numbers never sounded hard to pick - I hate being broke.
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