Comments on: Have I become that boring? http://www.ffpblog.com/2009/07/have-i-become-that-boring/ The Journal of a Combat Medic Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marie http://www.ffpblog.com/2009/07/have-i-become-that-boring/#comment-47 Marie Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:53:31 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=64#comment-47 <p>Seadoc was one of the first blogs I ever read.  I came originally for the blogging talk and stayed for everything else (working on an oil rig, hurricanes, getting married, buying a house, having a baby, going full time military in the middle of a war, etc. - no where else was that kind of blogging going on - all great stuff).  I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.</p> <p>One day when I found out someone very close to me would be going to Afghanistan, my first thought was “Doc!”  And it hit me that I hadn’t read your blog in a long time.  Despite being there when you changed domain names, you had somehow fallen off my radar.  I don’t know if it was something on your end or mine, but I looked you up to find out what was going on, and you were still on your first deployment.</p> <p>All this is just a round-about way of saying you’ve made me wonder if I started reading your blog today, if I’d stick with it.  Probably.  Maybe.  I don’t know.  That in no way should be construed as anything personal towards you.  Not at all.  It simply demonstrates the way times change and people change.  Back in the early days, if you found even a somewhat interesting blogger, it was easy to stick around.  Today, I run across hundreds of blogs, maybe thousands, that I never return to.  They’re probably interesting, but I don’t stick around long enough to find out.</p> <p>So, no, I don’t think you’ve become boring.  I think you’re just more quiet.  It does seem like you blogged more often back then. </p> Seadoc was one of the first blogs I ever read.  I came originally for the blogging talk and stayed for everything else (working on an oil rig, hurricanes, getting married, buying a house, having a baby, going full time military in the middle of a war, etc. – no where else was that kind of blogging going on – all great stuff).  I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

One day when I found out someone very close to me would be going to Afghanistan, my first thought was “Doc!”  And it hit me that I hadn’t read your blog in a long time.  Despite being there when you changed domain names, you had somehow fallen off my radar.  I don’t know if it was something on your end or mine, but I looked you up to find out what was going on, and you were still on your first deployment.

All this is just a round-about way of saying you’ve made me wonder if I started reading your blog today, if I’d stick with it.  Probably.  Maybe.  I don’t know.  That in no way should be construed as anything personal towards you.  Not at all.  It simply demonstrates the way times change and people change.  Back in the early days, if you found even a somewhat interesting blogger, it was easy to stick around.  Today, I run across hundreds of blogs, maybe thousands, that I never return to.  They’re probably interesting, but I don’t stick around long enough to find out.

So, no, I don’t think you’ve become boring.  I think you’re just more quiet.  It does seem like you blogged more often back then.

]]> By: Arli http://www.ffpblog.com/2009/07/have-i-become-that-boring/#comment-46 Arli Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:40:22 +0000 http://www.ffpblog.com/wp/?p=64#comment-46 <p>Guess if there’s not much to write about, there’s not much to write about…but I would prefer to read more than a tweet or twitter or whatever it’s called! I read to be connected…it’s blogs and/or the news, and the news doesn’t tell us anything. So that leaves the milbloggers…lack of “excitement” in Iraq (a good thing, I think?) and all. So many of the blogs I followed have disappeared for various reasons in the past year. I hope yours doesn’t too. <br /> Take care. </p> Guess if there’s not much to write about, there’s not much to write about…but I would prefer to read more than a tweet or twitter or whatever it’s called! I read to be connected…it’s blogs and/or the news, and the news doesn’t tell us anything. So that leaves the milbloggers…lack of “excitement” in Iraq (a good thing, I think?) and all. So many of the blogs I followed have disappeared for various reasons in the past year. I hope yours doesn’t too.
Take care.

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