I stopped blogging about it, so you probably all thought I gave up on it, right? Well, I didn’t. I’m still going strong getting up at 5:00 am every morning. I’ve had a few rough mornings where the alarm clock failed to go off and a few mornings where I took a little “nap” after getting out of the shower, but I’ve been on time to work every day for the last three weeks and I’m pretty proud of that.
I love having time in the mornings to get things done. I’ve been so much better about spending time alone with God and reading my scriptures. I’ve also had time to catch up on my finances and budgeting, and to work on a few other projects that have been ignored far too long.
I mentioned in my first post in this early riser series that I am hoping to combine my two blogs back into one blog. I haven’t found a way to export and import my blog entries into one big blog yet, but I’ve heard that WordPress 2.1 will have that capability built-in, so I think I’m going to wait until the new version comes out.
However, I think I’ve come up with a good name for my combined blog. I’m going to call it “Σύζυγος”. If that looks like Greek to you, that’s because it is. It’s pronounced “Sood´-zoo-gos”, and it’s the word we get our English word syzygy from. It’s a verb that means to yoke together or to bind together. I think it’s appropriate because I’ll be “yoking” my two blogs together, but not only that, it represents the coming together of my various different hobbies and interests (including my interest in Koine Greek). I also mentioned that I’d like to use the tumblelog format, so the name also appropriately denotes the coming together of many different types of media, including blog entries, Flickr photos, LibraryThing books, del.icio.us bookmarks, and whatever else I feel like throwing into the mix. Let me know what you think of the name. If too many people think it’s silly, I’m open to other suggestions.
So anyway, I think I’ve talked about this early riser thing for too many posts in a row. I’ll have some real content in my next post, I promise.
I’m still struggling with the issue of having 2 blogs. I think I will keep doing it for awhile. I keep my purely technical (computers/coding) on Dev-Picayune and anything else on wilcoxzone. Problem is I don’t post enough on either. But originally I had 3 blogs… so 2 seems a little easier.
As for the name… it’s interesting. Certainly more original than many of the sub-title cliches that most folks use. I finally got sick of just referring to my wilcoxzone.com site by the url… so I think I’m going to transition to a more appropriate “blog name”. But I never have figured out how to really switch… Should be in the title attribute of every page? Should it be promanately displayed on every page? What should the title in RSS look like? And that’s what also coming to mind with your new name… Will you put the greek letters in the RSS feed? Or will you put the English equivalent?
Thanks for your example and efforts getting up earlier.
Check out my new Yahoo Group:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EarlyRiserProject/
One thing that I have found helps with drowsiness is to recite Buddhist scriptures that I have memorized. Before they had books memorization was a prerequisite for investigating the meaning.
I can read the Greek alphabet, and I’m fascinated with ancient languages.
However, I vote that you just call the blog “Syzygy,” so that the majority of your readers and visitors will know how to say it. If they can’t pronounce it, they can’t refer to it when talking to others, and it can’t become a household word.
Having three “y”s and none of the five main orthographic vowels (a,e,i,o,u), “syzygy” is a pretty cool word without the Greek letters. (You can mention the Greek etymology in the definition, if you want.)
Kudos to you for getting up early! My wife says, “If he can do it, I can!” I would have to add that anyone can get up early if Joey can!