Mind of a Binge Blogger

OK, so I haven't blogged much recently. It's time to catch up.

I've emptied the cameras onto the hard-drive of a local internet cafe, selected and shrunk pics for the blog, drafted lots of short blogs with pictures from our time in Bangkok with Jo (I'm that far behind - I uploaded those photos to photobucket already, just didn't have time to link them all into blog entries), processed the disposable underwater camera film from diving - now I just have to spend eight hours uploading the new pictures, typing in notes I made earlier, coding all the picture-links with witty or at least vaguely relevant captions, laying out pages and deciding what order to post the blog entries in, fixing bugs, writing up what we've actually done this last three weeks, and then writing something to have at the top of the blog to let our beloved readership know where to find all the new pictures and words.

Bliss...

OK I admit it - I'm a binger. I can stay in control of it for a while, just relaxing, being with the family, meeting locals, getting to know a place - then I just find myself sitting for too long typing at a computer in some internet joint, enjoying the thrill as the USB connections do their job, patting myself on the back when the latest tweak to the technology works, or I find a way round the awkward set-up on this particular computer. It's sick and sad I know - but there it is. I'll try just to blog a little every day or two from now on, honest I will. Just as soon as I get this pile of photos and experiences properly stored on the internet and safe from the harm that memory and real life might do to them ...

- Mark