Change in blog schedule, format

Hi all,

I am making some adjustments to the blog. Namely for a few reasons:

1. One big reason is that I want to focus on quality, not quantity. I tend to get into a habit of throwing out as many posts as I can, which I think degrades quality, leads to typos, and topics of middling interest.
2. I want to tone down the religious posts and focus on a more balanced variety in topics: current news, history, religion, learning the language, etc.
3. I want to buckle down more and focus on preparing for the JLPT, especially listening. This is hard to do at night, the only free time I have, when busy on side projects. So I closed my Twitter account for example which was just a waste of time (still on Facebook for those looking for me). Also shelved some offline writing projects of mine until next year at least.
4. I want to give readers a consistent schedule. Speaking from experience, I like the anticipation knowing that blog will post on days X and Y, rather than guessing. Again, I want to improve quality, not quantity.
5. I also want to ensure a more consistent sleep schedule.

So, to that end, I decided to focus on posting on certain days for posting blog entries: Sunday (my most free day ), Tuesday, because I like Tuesday, and Thursday because I like them too, also before the weekly drop in readership I notice on Friday and Saturday.

This is experimental at this point, but I’ll try this out for now, and see if this works. For a while I was unofficially doing Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but Friday was a problem, so I prefer the timeline above. Also, I fell into the “quantity” habit again, which I hope to reign in.

We’ll see how this goes. Long time readers know that I have had similar ideas in the past, so we’ll see if I actually follow through at this time.

–Doug