Obsession

by flickr user A Y U M i (LoveLiveLaugh)

I tend to obsess about things (people who know me IRL are going “duh”). Whatever is going on in my life at the time becomes fairly all consuming – I will talk about it a lot, think about it a lot, sketch plans and ideas- obsess is a very apt word. I do this until a) I can implement my plan or b) I realize that what I want can be accomplished another way and for far less money, or is simply unimportant.

I think this obsessive aspect is healthy for me. As an example, I think about my computer network a lot. How to tweak it, how to to back up files, what OS’s to use (a particular and contentions point.) I research solutions, learn new tech to make it possible, and decide on what’s not important to me. So, rather than going out and buying a $500 solution to a problem, I can often work with what I have buy, say, putting together spare parts to make a file server or replacing an old router’s firmware. I learn a lot along the way, too.

Lately an obsession has been buying a house, and soon (since we close on the house Monday) it will be decorating and outfitting the house.

So the obsession thing is fine with me, though a little annoying for friends who have to hear me ramble on about my obsessions, and that brings me to my main problem: I have several places I create content online, and I don’t really want to add any more of them. I have trouble using the ones I have. In part, the problem is focus. I’ve probably read too many of those “10 tips to writing a better blog” articles, but I have the idea that I should stick to one main topic per blog. But I don’t want to split things up like that. On this blog in particular, I want to be able to ramble about whatever- but I worry that would be annoying to readers.

Of course, I don’t have to worry about annoying online readers as much as real life friends. Online content is more easily ignored. So, I’m not going to worry about it.

I guess what I’m saying is, I’m going to get a little freer with content posted here, and that may mean more rambles about random topics and a greater volume of posts about a particular subject for extended periods of time. Feel free to unsubscribe. I hope that at least some of what I write about holds some interest for regular readers, and I will still post content (hopefully more frequently) to my other main blogs – free-artwork.com (art related stuff) and nirak.net (professional stuff- but what that means is a little up in the air right now.)

Possible upcoming obsessions:

• Building stuff: Furniture, etc. Also, setting up a shop to build stuff, stuff about power tools, maybe light house construction projects
• Decorating: Paint colors, furniture, all that fun stuff
• More stuff about Ubuntu/ open source for designers. Probably a lot of ranting about not having the options I want (Adobe CS4 on Ubuntu, ideally)
• Cooking/gardening/yard planning

Yeah, I’m going to be busy.