Blogblock
I tend to get ahead of myself. I'll start focusing on some future aspect of a project that seems interesting to me, and I'll obsess over the idea of it, even if it's not something I can tackle at the moment. Meanwhile, the steps I need to be taking next aren't getting done. It happens at work; it happens for home improvement projects; it happens on this site. About a week ago I decided to write an entry about Rails migrations and schemas, and how I hoped to start working them into my projects. But planning the post out in my head, I wasn't satisfied with just a quick glossover. I wanted appropriate links and some thoughtful commentary--why else would I spend the time to post? Of course, gathering those links, organizing the thoughtfulness, and getting it all down promised to require a bit more focus than I could provide among all our moving preparations.
The obvious thing to do would be to drop the idea and write about something else. But every time I thought of posting something I felt this obligation to write the post I had already thought of. And so nothing's been posted for a week. And it's clear to me now why I so often stop writing here. I get wrapped up in a particular idea that will require more work than I'm willing to put in, but I can't get past it. So to loosen the blogblock a bit I've decided to write a big long apologetic metapost pointing out what a flawed individual I am. Maybe that will get me going...