Why I like my blog - a rambling pointless post

I've meant to update with our Saturday visit to Mount Vernon - if I wait for it then I may not post for a while again. It was really cool and I still intend to share; but that'll wait until this afternoon or this weekend or maybe, like our trek photos, never.
As you can see to the right, I have a ridiculously long list of blogging friends. Some update pretty frequently, others not so much. I'm super sporadic. I like that I can post whatever I want, whenever I want. I'm really not out to please anybody but me.
If I like it, then that's all that matters.
Now the traditional paper letters with postage stamps - I like those; but they are high maintenance. If you communicate with a lot of people they can get a wee bit spendy, and they're totally labor-intensive. Then when you get one, you have to either respond or else guiltily acknowledge that you're an ungrateful schmuck and not respond, thus putting yourself on the unconscious list of undesirables in the mind of the sender. Whether or not they unconsciously put you on their list, in your own head that's where you are. If you're me.
Blogging, on the other hand, is low maintenance, easy, cheap, and relatively guilt-free. If you like it, read. If you don't like it, well then nobody's making you waste your time. It's guilt-free communication with whoever cares. Nobody owes me a letter back, and I owe nobody a response to their blogs. Yet I can still keep in touch and know what my friends are up to... the friends I like but don't even take the time to email. Yep, I'm a jerk that way, but look at that list to the right. I can't keep up with all those people in email - imagine writing a personalized email to each that pretty much contains the same stuff I put out there on the blog. Some people do this, of course, but imagine me doing that. Yep, you can't imagine that at all.
I'm just not that kind of girl.