Let's go again...

There's not much I can think of to write here on my publicly available blog. I usually use initials for most of the people I know to protect their identities. Also, a part of me wants to continue to do more writing as it is a skill that one should maintain. I just happen to pick a bad time to try for this writing revival because I am ill with a cough and a headache and don't really feel like taking on any serious writing endeavors right now during this time. Fall always seems to be the season where I most often encounter illness, I tend not to get ill at all during the other three seasons of the year.

Softball was fun this year, even if I admittedly am a bit disappointed we failed to win the tournament again. It's funny how in this league I play in it that the season record doesn't matter for the year end tournament, except I believe it does determine who you end up facing in the round robin round. Interestingly enough, some teams that did poorly during the season sometimes end up getting pretty far in the elimination rounds and I would guess the other teams that face them perhaps are underestimating them because of how they did in the season. For once in my life, I think I actually appreciate my softball "first round curse" LOL... the way the "curse" works out is that I always end up loosing in the first round of the playoffs. But this year I joke that if it wasn't for the "curse" we wouldn't have even made it to the playoffs cause this year my team was doing pretty poorly in the round robin and we barely got in as the 6th team out of 7 that would make it into the playoffs.

It is my personal opinion that blogging is starting to fade away. I assume it was more popular some years ago, but in all honestly I personally hardly read my friend's blogs anymore. Sometimes they simply don't add any new entries, but I assume that's also due to the fact that they also assume nobody is reading their blog anymore so why would they bother updating? I recently found some people I do know but perhaps are not as close with that do still update but the other people I were referring to mostly stopped updating sometime in 2007. I also think the onset of other social networking sites such as FB hindered people's interest in blogging. I realize this sounds kind of pessimistic but I think it's also because people have gotten lazier and they simply only want to read really short updates as opposed to somewhat longer ones as blog entries are typically longer.