I’ve been feeling a little guilty for not updating lately. It’s been… well… a busy couple of months at work and home. And while I most definitely classify my parenting duties as a job — albeit an unpaid (unless you consider unfiltered adoration of a little girl payment) one — I still do consider the SkepDad Blog a hobby.

(By the way, if someone wants to correct that situation, please do contact me. I work for Canadian currency, so it’s pretty cheap labour!)

I’ve been thinking on it and while I appreciate the generous support and heartfelt input I routinely receive about my often in-depth writings on these topics, I can’t find as many hours in the day as I used to. Generating useful articles is starting to become a full time job. And as I just mentioned, it can’t be. Nor do I feel right slackening on the research and thought required for each article. So, I’ve been putting it off. I’ve been letting the blog go stale, watching it sit there in my bookmarks list while I fret over quickly aging content. And at the moment, it’s starting to make me wonder if I should keep going.

But I’d like to keep going.

And the compromise to pulling the site offline and walking away is this: a reduced and slimmed down version of the blog. Rather than lengthy articles, I’m going to try and post more routinely with the type of entries you’ve seen here over the past few days. I’m going to aim for something relevant posted — a link or a bit of news — between two and four times per week — maybe more if it’s raining or if I’m stuck inside with nothing to do. And then maybe too, for good measure, I’ll still find time for the occasional in depth article.

If you’d like to comment, please do. If you’d like a more in depth explanation, find me a TAM and buy me a beer — and I’ll explain it all.