I tend to have an unofficial and unplanned schedule for blogging. I don’t always follow it, but usually I do most of my posting some time in the early-to-mid-afternoon. There are early-morning exceptions, of course, as well as late-night ones. But generally that’s the pattern: early-to-mid-afternoon.

But sometimes I get behind, even though I don’t meant to. Today was one of those days. This time it happened because of something that’s not unusual: I started a post that I thought would be short, very short. In this case it was about the Google demonstrations. I was just going to say a little bit about them and move on. But it took me longer than I thought it would to get any information except the most basic, and then the story ended up being more convoluted than I expected.

That’s the thing about blogging, or one of the things. Time. You never know how much time a post will take, or where it will lead you. My natural curiosity seems to dictate that I try to write something that’s not just surface and knee-jerk, but that goes into a certain amount of depth instead (although this being a blog and considering the need to produce a few posts each day, it can’t be too much depth).

But that all takes time. And my efforts are not always successful.

Thus, my 600-or-so current drafts, containing full-fledged posts, half-posts, disorganized notes, lists of sources, or just ideas for posts. At least I’m unlikely to run out of ideas if I have a dry spell.

[ADDENDUM: Oh, and by the way, I haven’t forgotten Part II of my Soros post. Probably will be published tomorrow. Probably.]