I have traveled down this road before stating my grand intentions of reviving the greatness that has been iowabeef.net but hopefully my words will hold true this time. Facebook has been my place of residence for my personal interactions with teh internets for a few years now. FB is a wonderful experience. FB provides a great deal of contact with avenues from the past and provides the daily interaction with those around me. The resumption of posting at iowabeef.net is seated in my desire have better access to the events I want to share and remember in the future. FB lacks the ability to go back in time and look at events that have been documented. Iowabeef.net has the ability for me to craft things a little more to my liking. In addition, I can always cross post to FB to show these wonderful things. Meh, maybe it’s better that some of these events are left in the past, but I still like the option of pulling them back out in the future. Controlling the environment the ideas are presented in provides some additional pull.
This thought goes along with the previous desire to write more. Writing is a challenge for myself on the computer when the only purpose it serves is to appease my desire to record my own thoughts. The ability to instantly edit my thoughts and words as I go along is too tempting. By the time I backtrack and edit the last thought, the next thought has already disappeared into the fog of the brain. I’ve begun to write out everything longhand in a notebook, then revisit it and transcribe it to the computer. Some editing takes place during the initial typing for clarity and then the overall awesomeness that it deserves gets crafted during the finishing phase. The separation of the process initially has presented me with the opportunity to write more ideas and to decrease the initial self censoring that can occur when writing straight to the computer.
