Q: I know there are more personal things going on in your life, why don’t you post more personal stuff on your blog?

A: Nothing like a question from a friend to kick in my long-windedness. I might wind up doing a podcast about this in the future, but I’ll go ahead and answer this here as well. I was raised not to “air your dirty laundry” as it were. Basically, no matter what is going on in my life, good or bad, I have a problem with exposing it to everyone that could possibly stumble in here. People are watching.

Sound paranoid? I didn’t used to be, but even employers are now searching the web to see what they can come up with on a potential job candidate. People have been fired for postings they made online. Think you can just delete anything personal so that job you’re applying for, your current job, your ex and his/her significant other, or your parents won’t find out just how neurotic you really are? Check out The Wayback Machine.

Granted, there are a lot of broken images, but I can see what Macabre Manor looked like back as far as April of 2004. All the textual content is still there.

So, I post inane things that don’t mean much most of the time. It makes for a very boring blog, I know. Granted, I’m hiding behind a pseudonym, which will probably make me bolder in the future, but as long as my daughter still lives at home I will remain very guarded. I know this makes me sound uber paranoid, but I’m really just being careful.

This isn’t the answer the questioner wanted, but for now it’s the way I feel about posts that are overly personal.