Blogging Mojo

I do not like those, “I am going away now” and the “I am back now” posts. To me they sound a little too self important. Like those people with 3 mobile phones and a pager. I mean honestly. As Frasier at Blogjam puts it:

I never like to apologise for any absences between posting, as doing so would be an assumption that a) anyone cares and that b) those who do are feverishly awaiting whatever it is I have to say. This is a touch arrogant for my liking, so I don’t bother.

I have to acknowledge though that, for various reasons, since the big move blogging has been at the best sporadic and at worst non existent. Some of these reasons are brilliant. For example for a couple of weeks I was busy having way too much fun watching my brother getting married to blog. Other reasons were not as happy. Overtaken by life’s twists and turns etc.

However the main reason for my absence from my blog was I did not know how to blog. I had no idea how to blog. Blank. This, after years of running a blog, came as a bit of a shock to me. I finally figured it out today while sitting in my barber’s chair. It all has to do with my blogging nature. I am an impulse blogger. I see something bloggable, I find a computer I blog it. I read something bloggable I find a computer I blog it. I hear something interesting in the middle of the night on radio I get up and blog it. When you have 15MB broadband internet at your finger tips impulse blogging is easy. But as I swapped broadband in Manchester for my sanity in Nairobi something had to change. I knew it and I was prepared for it.

I had a three 512MB USB sticks. One holds Portable Firefox so I could take my browser + bookmarks + plugins with me to any internet café in Kenya or the world (my browser and its settings are fine tuned to blogging). The second USB stick had Portable Thunderbird, so I could take my email accounts with me to any internet café in Kenya or the world. The third USB stick had GreatNews, the best RSS reader out there, so I could take all of you (bloggers) with me to any internet café in Kenya or the world.

Technologically I was ready, mentally I was ready, however, my blogging mojo was completely out of sync. My mojo would whisper to me, “Typing something in MS Word to insert links later, that’s not blogging, man that’s called writing an assessed essay for class. Not being able to blog something cool immediately but waiting till morning, that’s not blogging man, that’s just writing.” Waiting, having to wait, that sucks. Well it did. But I’m over it and on top of that I’m enjoying it. I have this mental blog in my head that is far far ruder than Mentalacrobatics and it is fun filling it with entries. Maybe one day I’ll let them out, hehe.

But this blog right here this Mentalacrobatics, well it’s grown and changed a little bit but it will continue to do what it does best (if anyone knows what that is please let me know). You would think that having to type something in MS Word first and having to re read before posting would increase the quality of blogging, well pole. It’s still going to be THE Deepest Pothole on the Information Superhighway, beware.

For all of you who having been blogging all this time from places where the internet access is slower than an episode of a Latin America soap opera, you have my respect.

To all the new KBW members, Karibu, it is brilliant that ya’ll have joined us.

To all old KBW members, ati Best Blog Community nominee? Man I told ya’ll that we were special, now you know! I hope ya’ll voted! (Where are those muppets who always accuse us of rigging every election and nomination process we are involved in like we’re that nutcase in Uzbekistan?) Anyway to all KBW members, thank you for building the community. Not all who joined us had the spirit to stay with us. Thank you current members for sticking around and making KBW what it is.

To my blogging friends friends who happen to blog, KBW and Non KBW, new and old … here we go again.

To their Supreme Majesties Members and Supporters known as Koppites – You never walk alone. First game of the season, one trophy. Forward to Premiership and Athens (let’s hope we meet Chelski in the knockout stages).

To the Chelski fans – hehehe. Ati Middlesboro? You know Charity Shield Winners do not go around losing like muppets, no actually you don’t know.

To Arsenal fans – hehehe. Man City? This sucks I am actually starting to feel sorry for these gooners.

To Man U fans – do not get too excited. I don’t know how you managed to rig the fixture list so that you started with three London teams. Come back to the North West and you’ll see what football is all about.