JasonGuthrie.net

You’d think it would be easy to maintain a personal blog right? You just write about, well, personal stuff. How hard can it be?

My problem is that I like to compartmentalize my life too much. I like to keep my work life separate from my family life, and keep my tech/blogging life separate from it all. This is why I own a dozen different sites, and try and keep them all updated with different facets of my life. My family site houses mostly family pictures for friends and relatives to see, my blog contains posts about my financial and accounting interests, and a few other random sites are maintained as experiments or just for fun. I also keep up a journal for my personal stuff - so what’s left for the personal blog?

I don’t want to get too personal because anyone could read it, including friends, family, or even potential employers. I don’t want to post too much family-related content because that’s what the family site is for. And I don’t want to write about personal finance because that’s what the blog is for.

Are you starting to see the picture? Is this the place I write about the latest episode of Lost? Or maybe my thoughts on politics and why I’m disappointed in California voters? Maybe I’ve spread myself too thin. One part of me thinks maybe everything should be a branch of one large site - a sort of Jason media conglomerate. But then the other part of myself laughs at the fact that I’m even having this conversation with myself. Who else but the nerdiest of the nerds has this problem? It’s definitely time for bed…