Today I heard from an old friend, one that I hadn’t spoken to in quite a while. I had actually though about him earlier in the week, and as these things tend to go, an e-mail with his name on it arrived in my inbox by mid-afternoon. I responded, and heard back quickly, and just like that, we were off. We talked about the kinds of things that friends tend to talk about; our families, our other friends, our careers, and, as has become the norm these days, the economy, and how it’s affecting our lives.

We both enjoy the art of amateur web design, and at some point the conversation moved in that direction. There’s really nothing I’d rather talk about sometimes, and today was one of those days. I complimented him on some of his recent work, and he gave me a compliment on this site. Specifically, he complimented my content, my writing, which I’ve struggled with for quite some time, and of which I am constantly critical, and rarely proud. I appreciated very much the compliment on my content. It’s something I’ve tried really hard to attain, and I’ve never really felt completely comfortable in the words that I string together on the site, and so it was nice to have that confirmation come, without prompting, out of the blue. But, as I said to him, and as I’ll say here again now, if you’ll notice, I’m not able to write that often. I just don’t have time to develop a really quality post more than once or twice a month. In the past, I’ve tried to add in ‘easy’ posts, little quick hitters, to keep the site fresh, and relevant, and that’s all fine and good, but I have always wanted my content to be more than just my daily activities, because honestly, I’m an accountant. It’s not really noteworthy, most of the time ever. So I try to take my time, and develop content that feels important, and is worth taking the time to write about.

The problem becomes, if all I’m doing is writing about those things that I find important, I’m considering the wrong audience, aren’t I? And that’s why I get e-mails from friends, asking me about how I’ve been, because they’ve been to the site, and while they now know my feelings on beards, and my strategies for succeeding at work, they don’t really know what’s happening to me, every day.

And as I explained, that’s why I like the idea of having the Twitter feed on the site. It allows for the ability to give more relevent insight into my life, while still allowing me to be patient and take my time with, something that is still very important to me, after all of this time.