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Long Facebook story short: got bored, lost interest.

There was some fun stuff, like Scrabulous and Zombie biting/hugging, but it was as I expected. Not quite right for me. It might have to do with less time indoors and more time outdoors training.

Plus, there were very few people I knew dialed in: a few family and friends, but not much from school. Kathie was there and she’s doing great. But not much other representation from Whitmore Lake High School’s class of 1990.

So, I ended up cleaning the page a bit and leaving it out there, just in case any old friends are looking for me.

Now LinkedIn is a little different. To start, I had a pretty clean page already. I linked up with as many people as I could, and kind of let it sit there. Again, very few from school (what’s up with my high school? It was a small class of 52, but come on! Am I seriously the only one on LinkedIn?), but there were several people from my company, and previous jobs.

I may like LinkedIn better because I am more outgoing in a work atmosphere. My wife is the social butterfly. I like to talk about work and exercise and music and movies.

Both my LinkedIn and Facebook pages are showing up in my Google search results, and I am fully available to find by anyone who is looking. More or less, mission accomplished. Yet, at times I still feel a little like a voyeur.

So, I’ve taken a little time off from randomly blogging, because I’m having a little weblog crisis. What’s the point? What do I want to do with it? What do I hope to achieve, if anything?

What are my options? Let’s see.
• Journal to let my family and friends know what I’m doing and thinking about
• Outlet for me to talk about my work and ideas as a Mid-Sized marketer
• Somewhere to document how smart I think I am
• A sweet place for me to brag about myself

And to complete all this, I guess it could/should also draw attention to the things I care about. So, what are those things?

As a journal, I think I’ve got that covered. The only problem could be that I don’t really have that many interesting things happen to me to warrant three to four posts a week. I don’t want to just rant about things, I want to cover my thoughts, both good and bad.

As an outlet to talk about my work, I’ve got that covered too, but I’m not sure who cares. For that to really be anything, I’d need to take my own advice and really promote it, try to get published and make some money in a way that let’s me respect myself in the morning.

Of course, just by writing, I’m documenting how smart I think I am, but strange as it may seem, I feel a odd bragging about myself. How pretentious!

Maybe I just need to blog a little shorter. Or, pick fewer, more specific topics. Or, get a more interesting life. Hmm. Maybe I should look at this as more of a exercise to hone my writing skills.

This blog started as a work exercise, but I have to say it is pretty neat to Google a topic of interest and see lechtanski.net come up in the search results. And I have gotten a couple of comments from people I don’t know, who have stumbled on a post and want to share a view or question. That is neat.