To Tweet or Blog

Several years ago I started this blog as an assignment for part of my role as talent for KMAC Sports. Our boss and owner, thought it would be good for each member of the staff to start a blog and write at least one sports related story a month. An exceptionally easy task I thought because I liked to write and I loved sports. He even provided me the inspiration for my site title. However, the task was not as easy as my co-workers and I thought because, well...life happens.

Life Happens and we get busy. We juggle too many balls and we are afraid to drop any, when the only three that really matter are our faith, our family and our health.

We find ourselves finding faster ways to do things, but necessarily better ways. I don't knock progress or technology.

I love that I can communicate with just about anyone in 140 characters or less, though my spelling has gone downhill as I learn to tweet shrink things. A birthday wish from a future hall-of-fame NFL quarterback, a thanks from an actor in one of my favorite shows, a humorous reply from one of my favorite musicians, and the ability to complain to a fast food restaurant about their new cups and see a change (not that it was all me) - none of which would've likely happened without Twitter. Not to mention the friends that I've made, people who share common interests, and who I call on if I ever need anything.

What I miss is the thoughtful moments. Tweeting is fun, writing is thoughtful. While, you have to sometimes carefully word tweets to convey your message in brevity, you don't usually reread and proof things before tweeting, as evident now in the Library of Congress. When you write for a blog, you have to actually work at it. You want to sound smart, witty, and professional all at once. All the while not knowing whether anyone will read it or not. And maybe that's why people like tweeting. If you tweet something and no one reads it you only wasted a few minutes, if you blog something and no one reads it, you may have wasted hours.

Also who has the time to read lengthy blogs anymore? We can read hundreds of tweets in the time it takes to read one blog. We can see breaking news faster than than networks can break into our favorite shows. Even the Associated Press has felt the pressure of Twitter, as more and more "sources" are breaking stories, an honor once held to a selected few.

Well if you made it this far you're probably thinking this girl is crazy and jumps around more than a frog on a lily pad. Well maybe that's how we think now. Short, random, thoughts loosely tied together with a continuous thread.

So I thnk I mght try blggng again, jst dnt pull on tht thread. hehehe =)

Chub ironicy

I get the point of chubbing - I do find it odd that the same people who opposed paying state employees when they volunteer, because the taxpayers are paying them to do their job are the same people wasting the taxpayer's money now - but at least move on to the bills that are somewhat interesting. I don't know the details of the other bills, but seriously 28 more MUD/water bills before those with substance. Snoozefest... and not in the best interest of the taxpayers.

My thought: If you don't like a bill, for whatever reason, fight for it then and argue convincingly to others why you're right. Chubbing implies you don't have a good argument.

'Nuff said.