If there are any loyal FNR readers left, you have surely noticed the decline in blogging since my lovely daughter Bailey was born in November of last year. There simply isn't enough time to devote to this hobby as there once was. That, however, isn't my biggest problem. I'm getting this dad thing down, and there are plenty of times when I have a few minutes to post. The problems I'm facing now are a lack of inspiration and some nagging questions about the form I want this blog to take, mainly regarding post length.

In general, my posts have always been on the long side. I'm a huge fan of Movable Type's "Extended Entry" feature, and use it frequently. Over the last month, I've had multiple post ideas that I never followed through on because I wasn't able to expand them to what I thought was a worthwhile length. Recently I made a post called "Minis" which included a few shorter items. It was modeled after Ben Domenech's "The Rundown" which he posts at least once a week, containing upwards of 10 short items, each ranging from just a sentence to a full paragraph. I was contemplating another "Minis" post earlier this week, but let it go because I didn't have enough short items! I don't know where I got these ideas about lengthy posts, but I'm finally ready to let them go -- they're killing my weblog. I think my new inspiration is a blog I've always enjoyed called Chronic Murmuring. Scott easily posts 4 or 5 times a day, and the posts range anywhere from one or two sentences about an interesting link to several paragraphs of highly intelligent (though sometimes over my head) commentary.

Hopefully this new perspective will breathe some new life into Friday Night Running. But don't worry, the one thing this blog will never lack for is cute baby pictures...