All Logged In And Nothing To Blog

I think I'm suffering from one of the classic signs of blog addiction. Or I would be, if blog addiction as a phenomenon had been around long enough to have classic signs. (Not that it takes long for anything to become "classic" these days. I mean, have you listened to any classic rock stations lately? When did some of that stuff become "classic," for crying out loud?) My problem is that I've got this nagging feeling that I have to blog something. Right now. I mean, I haven't posted anything in well over 24 hours, and even that was just some piddly little thing about how I'd finished my Christmas shopping. I'm disappointing my readers, here! All six of them! Plus, if I don't post something pretty much every day from now until I leave on vacation, that pathetic even-geekier-than-usual post from last Wednesday in which I lament the fact that other geeks might no longer be nearly as impressed as they used to be by my ability to quote Spock's estimate of how many tribbles there were in the quadrotriticale[*] is going to be on the front page of the blog for another week. And how embarrassing would that be?

So, there's this irritable little voice in my head somewhere that won't let me relax and do anything else until I update this damned blog page. Problem is, I've got nothing I feel like talking about. They haven't cancelled any more of my favorite TV shows, at least not that I've heard. (Not that there are very many of them left to cancel, anyway.) I have had no new and exciting insights about TV shows or anything else. I haven't done anything particularly interesting today, unless you think there's something deeply fascinating about eating a hamburger or doing laundry or spending five hours playing The Sims.

So I started searching the web for interesting things to blog about. Maybe I could mention this online "ESP Experiment". Or this page of cartoons (including some Star Trek-themed ones, like this one or this one or this one. I could mention that there are some interesting (if spoiler-laden and mostly scathingly negative) reviews of Nemesis over at Ain't It Cool News, as if that were a website nobody on Earth would ever manage to find without my help. But none of that seemed worth centering a blog post around, really.

I started surfing random blogs, desperately hoping to encounter something blog-worthy. I did that until the same ones started showing up again, and then I figured it was really time to stop. (This was the best one I came across. There's a good post on how DVDs and Tivos are revolutionizing our TV-viewing habits. (Well, OK, Tivo isn't revolutionizing my viewing habits, because I haven't got one, but the basic point still stands.) But that wasn't really worth blogging about, either.)

And then, what the heck, I just started typing. And now that stupid voice has finally shut up, so I can stop.

To all six of my loyal readers: my apologies. But, hey, just because I was compelled to write this stupid post doesn't mean anybody was compelling you to read it!

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