As for me, I’m sweating it out until this August, 138 days from now. That’ll be five years straight without a break… at which time I’m going to not worry if I miss a day here or there.

Part of that is that five years is a round number… more than that, it’d take five more years to reach the next notable landmark… and more than that, I’m just getting tired some days, struggling more and more to find something to say. Not that the exercise of finding that thing isn’t useful–I just think that I’ve had enough useful exercise for a while. That said, the election will probably be more than enough to keep daily blogging up a few months beyond that deadline.

Any thoughts as to how long you intend to keep this up? What’s your purpose, and when will that purpose have been served?

Seriously though, I read a recent study by technorati and some Swiss psychological institute where they did a long term study of 1000 or so regular bloggers and how happy they were. The findings were that there is a direct correlation between blogs that are religiously updated and the bloggers happiness, or unhappiness. The conclusion is that the passionate blogger is at the computer more hours per day rather than doing other things like exercising or talking with friends which over a long period of time led to a more negative state of mind and overall depression. They did however find that bloggers who only posted twice a week to be five times happier than those who posted three times a week. And that twice a week was a moderate amount of blogging that would allow a person to continue without any long term mental disorder.

So instead of blogging everyday, you should blog only twice a week. And the rest of the time go hang with friends at the mall. You’ll lead a more satisfying life.

BTW, what I just said is complete BS. I made it all up ;-)