Playing Catch-Up

So, I am trying to catch-up with stuff from my two week (or thereabouts) sojourn from blogging.

In my feed reader, I am finally down to under 200 blog posts to read. 199 to be exact, though that will shoot upward later this evening when a couple blogs post another half dozen posts each. I’m seriously considering removing some of these wordy blogs from my feed reader. I don’t even read most of the posts anymore.

To tell the truth, I “caught up” mainly by just marking as read scores of posts from a handful of sites that post a half dozen or more posts per day. I have pretty much lost interest in many of those blogs. It used to be that they had some useful stuff, but more and more it’s just stuff I don’t want to read.

I am still reading (and skimming) old posts. For the most part, I’m not going to leave comments on old posts, and just focus on commenting on newer posts.

I am also trying to “catch up” on social networking sites. It used to be that I logged on to MyBlogLog nearly every night, but I logged in this evening for what is, I think, the first time since mid-March. After an absence, even a relatively brief one, it can be difficult to catch up. The main difficulty is just getting back into the feel of things. Sometimes, something can change your perspective, and the things that seemed so necessary only a few weeks ago, somehow can wait until tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that.

Instead, sometimes you just sit there knowing you should be visiting some site, but you just can’t remember which one, because they don’t hold the importance in your mind that they did before.

So, it’s not procrastination alone that is the issue, but the lack of urgency which makes you forget completely about those sites.

Blog Update

I also worked on my “new” blog, Find the Best Credit Card, this evening, making changes to the stylesheet until I got it looking more the way I want it. I also took the liberty of commenting the stylesheet code so I better know what does what!

Not the prettiest blog around, but it looks better and I’ll just leave it alone for a while, until some sort of inspiration hits me whereby I feel the need to make some changes.

I also added the site to MyBlogLog while I was on this evening (and still). If you’re on MBL, please join some of my other communities, just so they don’t look so lame where dcrBlogs has 100+ and the rest have scant handfuls.

Of course, if you have additional MBL communities you’d like me to join, let me know about them!

Making It to the Top Spots

Practical Points in Nursing was a blog I started near the end of February. While checking my stats this evening, I discovered it is ranking #2 in Google for a particular search term. Probably not the most popular of search terms, but it’s a start anyway.

I also plan on adding some more modern information, so I am hopeful that will help too.

Also did some work on its stylesheet, and I now have it looking the way I want.

Now, back to work…

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