What I've Been Up To

Even though I have a review and Yu-Gi-Oh! site I run, this Random Thoughts blog is actually the one thing I have the most fun writing. Mainly because I can write whatever the heck I want to write, and no one will protest because there is no reason to. The purpose of this blog is for me to write down random thoughts I have. Articles that wouldn't fit in with The Comic Book Guy.com website. And strangely enough, this blog gets more hits then either my comic OR Yu-Gi-Oh! site! It's quite bizarre actually. I've been working on a behind-the-scenes project recently. This project may be the reason I haven't updating anything for awhile.

This project, which shall remain nameless for the time being, is something that I've wanted to work on for many years now. I just never had the courage to attempt to make it...until now. Now that I'm working on it, I'm loving it, despite the fact that it is taking a tole on my personal life. When it's finished I know I'll be happy with it, but until then it does take up quite a bit of time. Makes me realize that I'll have to make some changes when it comes to the amount of time and commitment that I want to do on my websites. Today I made a list of all the features I had planned for my two sites.

I made the list so that I could look at what I was planning, and cross out the things that didn't mean too much to me, or I just simply didn't have the time to commit to. There was one feature on my YGO! that I planned to write a couple of months ago. It would have been big. It might have even improved my traffic for that site a bit. But alas, I starred at how much work and research I had to put into the darn thing (which turned into many, many, MANY hours), and I crossed it off. Then cried just a bit. It made me kind of sad because just two years ago, this feature would have been a top priority for my site.

Now? Now all I could see was how much time I was going to put into it, versus how little I was going to receive for doing it. I also planned to finish my San Diego Comic Con 2005 report, but I just couldn't justify doing the full length report I had originally planned. So that feature got crossed off, and for a site that I practically look forward to updating. But the response to my first two installments of that feature were non-existent, and I didn't want to waste my energy finishing a report that no one really cared about in the first place. Not to mention my big project is taking so much of my time, I may have to cut back to writing one review a week instead of two.

But don't quote me on that last one, as I haven't completely decided on that one. I'm also buying all the DVD's of films that won an Oscar for Best Picture. I think once I have seen them all, a satirical list of the "Ten Films Least Deserving of An Oscar" would be great fun to write...I'm just wondering if that energy would be better channeled somewhere else now. Ah, but that list is too tempting to refuse, so I'll probably write it anyway (though in several installments most likely). Gee, this post is sounding more grim then I originally intended it to be. In fact, the more I look at this, maybe I should post this on my websites too?

Just so that everyone knows what's going on. Nah, everyone will find this sooner or later. Everyone checks out blogs whenever I miss an update, just to make sure I'm not having computer problems or something. Well, anyway, with all that said I'm surprised to discover this blog might be updated more then the websites. If I write something for a website, I have to re-write the HTML, edit pictures if need be, and FTP everything. With blogs, I just click the blog button, write what I want to, and publish it. No one even holds it against me when I misspell something in the blog, since no one thinks highly of blogs (though people probably find them more interesting then anything you'll find on MySpace.com).

There is one thing I will promise: Things are going to change for me. I'll talk about the project I'm working on when it's time, and hopefully it will catch everyone's attention when it gets finished. Remember, I can't talk about it yet, but you're all welcome to speculate a little bit about it on my message boards if you want (just don't expect me to participate, seeing as how I hate message boards). I'll reveal more details on my respective sites when I iron everything out, but for now, I'm signing off. Catch you all later.

Currently Listening To: Daniel Powers - Daniel Powers