Reddit is slowly pulling me in.

It's the slowness that assures me that it is inevitable.

Back when Digg hit the scene, I seem to recall being intrigued, but couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it to. I don't recall at the moment exactly what it was I wanted to do, but I also recall that I checked out Reddit at that time as well, and somehow lumped it into the same failboat.

Maybe this means I should check out Digg again, too. For some reason, though, I sure as hell hope not.

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These sites allow me to read CONSTANTLY. But I am still resisting. I am struggling with, instead of poking through my bookmarks out of sheer boredom, just averting my gaze from the screen, napping, or sitting on the couch and meditating on why I have a backlog of MAKING projects - clothes, software, electronics hardware, plastic casting, etc. - and I don't seem to want to do them.

It's conceivable that I could be happy or satisfied with accomplishments, achievements, OR with doing nothing at all. I could go either way. The puzzle is that I have yet to commit to either permanently. Both are moods that strike, sometimes on hourly cycles, sometimes on seasonal ones. As eaither way is adopted, there is this mild, subtle background itch that is only seldom powerful enough to merit the scratching. And when it does, the switch is made, and off we go, whether into a productive hacking or coding binge, reading and researching endlessly, or going into hibernation.

The important thing is not that I make one or the other commitment and stick to it at all costs. The important thing is that I am the source of all my choices.

I still recognize that even the despair of these last 6 weeks is my own doing. These depressions are not things I escape, so much as they fade.

This post was originally about Reddit. Oh, well.