So I am at an interesting spot in my life...
- I have a fantastic job that I love
- I'm down in Texas with my fiance, Becca and my dog Lucy... my family is starting.
- I've got a crazy big wedding planned for this year, July 11th to be exact.
I'm building out the rest of my life... my family is finally starting. I have many more things on my mind than what I used to. Since I graduated college, my life consisted of being the best software developer, making money, buying toys, and chasing tail... of course with the family starting, those priorities are no longer viable (I don't think Becca likes the idea of me chasing tail :))
I feel like I'm less interested in feed reading, blogging, twitting... and more interested in providing for my family, writing interesting software, and pursuing things that aren't tech related (like cooking).
I think I'm just burning out... I spent 2 weeks up in Iowa and Minnesota for the Holidays, so you'd think I'd be excited to get back into the mix... but I'm not (at least as much as before).
I don't have as much interest in updating my blog... I had 2000+ unread items in my RSS feed reader... I completely ignored Twitter...
And this blog... I wanted to write this post to express my thoughts and give some insight to why I've only posted a few times in the last 3 months. I don't know what I want to do, I've been blogging since 2004, I think that's a good enough time to refocus on other areas. But maybe it's something that I should still do to help with my personal brand.
:: shrugs ::
So I guess I have some 2009 Resolutions:
- Focus on family first. It's a new thing for me and I'm sure lots of challenges will come up.
- Work on my personal presence online, setup a small company to route some things through, and continue to do my best work for Drop.io
- Continue to learn more about cooking, gather more utensils (got some Santoku knives as gifts), and try my hand at some more advanced recipes.
- And of course, a tech/career related one: Try and help out an open source project, start another one of my own, and try to write software that changes the game.
You'll still be able to chase tail ... thats why you got Lucy right? :-P ok bad joke.
You know that feeling where you get back from a vacation and you feel like you need a vacation because of your vacation? The Holidays often feel like that to me, especially when we do things with both sides of the family. I can't imagine travelling 2600 miles to do that!
Life planning (and wedding planning) is a huge task. Brining two live together as one takes lots of love, time and attention. I think it will end up helping your goals in the long run.
Wishing you the best.