“Do you have a blog?” she says to me, and from that very moment, I knew that I would have one soon. It happened before, with Twitter. “What’s your Twitter name?” people would say, or, even worse, “I bet your Tweets are really funny.” And so I got a Twitter account. That is how it happened.

But I refused to blog. It seemed like too much work, for a start. 140 characters every now and then is all very well, but this is different. Right?

The problem with maintaining a blog is the same one that I have found maintaining a vlog, surprisingly enough, and that problem of course, is that it needs maintaining. I needed something compelling enough, not only for people to be bothered to read, but for me to be bothered to blog about.

I procrastinate a lot, you see. And if this became a thing, then I would procrastinate over it. So the trick would be to trick myself into it. When is work not work? When it’s avoiding something worse, that’s when. So to avoid procrastinating over the blog, it would have to become the procrastination.

But surely reader, you see my problem. There are better ways to procrastinate. Much better. 

I could watch TV. I could watch a movie. I could play video games. I could write some fiction. I could go for a walk. I could wonder what to cook for dinner. I could go and see a play. I could join a sports team. I could play a board game. I could call up a friend, and talk with him for an hour. I could use StumbleUpon, of course. I could hit refresh on Facebook, and exercise my clicking finger over the ‘Random’ button on many a funny web comic. Hell, if worst came to absolute worst, I could work out.

And then, I had an idea. WHAT IF I did all these procrastinatory things, AND THEN wrote a blog about how much I procrastinated? I could review each activity, giving a recommendation based on Longevity, Expense and Entertainment values, and slowly build up a portfolio of procrastination advice! Not like bored.com; not a page of do-it-yourself procrastination, but a genuine ledger of procrastination information to those in need. It’s like 3 in 1! I get to procrastinate, then procrastinate some more while I write about it, and it helps people!

I hope. That’s was the plan, anyway. That’s how it started.

Now I just sort of do what I want.