I can't spell. I've never spelled well. Unfortunately blogging seems to exacerbate this problem. When writing emails, or documents using a writing or publishing application my spelling is checked automatically. Unfortunately none of these WYSIWYG editors spell check on the fly.

I suppose that actually indicates my other weakness... patience. I have very little. If I had more I'd remember to hit that little "ABC" button at the top of this entry field. But I'll forget, Smitty will comment on how poorly this post is spelled, I'll go back and edit it, but my shame will still exist.

The crazy thing is I can spell. I used to perform fabulously on spelling tests and quizes. But when it comes to writing and spelling in context... my spelling goes to crap. I go all phonetic, and sometimes I even miss that. Part of the problem is that my mind moves so much more quickly than my fingers do (heck, it moves much faster than my mouth does... speaking off the cuff about something for which I have ample fodder can be a nightmare for the poor souls trying to keep up with me). I'll skip entire parts of words, join words, create conjunctions that don't exist etc.

So please forgive if you find something recently posted that you can't read well, it probably isn't your fault. Just let me know and I'll go back and edit the kinks out. And maybe I'll start learning a little patience and find out I actually can spell well.

Blogging is tough. For about five months I've written in 4 blogs, one on MySpace, one on Wordpress, and 2 here (one is a collaborative blog).

My first blog posts were mere drivel in the ebiz coffee break. That was directly related a very short lived marketing experiment. The second was an attempt to muse on deep spiritual issues on myspace. Also short lived. I had a bit of successess parading around on Unboomed, but since Rocketboom has returned I've just not found anything to talk about there. The longest running of my blogs is Swing Scene. That is exclusively focused on one of my passions, Swing Dancing (specifically Lindy Hop and Balboa). This blog is my 6th and while I set it up nearly 2 months ago intending to document my blogging as a whole, this is the first post.

I had grand ambitions of posting somewhere at least once a day. That lasted for a week. Basically I ran out of stuff to say. I have a handful of pending posts on Swing Scene, but most of those are very incomplete collections of partial thoughts.

This is hard, this daily blogging. I have a tremendous respect for those who are able to publish meaningful thoughts day in and day out.

The spelling errors have been fixed in this post 7/28/06