Why did I start the Backlog?

I consume comic book, sci fi, superhero and video game movies, games, TV shows and other media pretty avidly.

As I've gotten older, it has become harder and harder to keep up with every thread of all the fictional worlds I would like to. Whether that's because I have a kid and a full-time job and a home to keep or because there's just so much of this stuff out there now, at some point I accepted the fact that I would always be running behind on most of it.

So I started keeping a simple list, a backlog of all the things I would like to watch or play or read, so that I could always keep track of what I hadn't gotten to yet, and what to get into next.

The second piece is that I often get to the end of a piece of content and have a whole jumble of thoughts that I want to express. My friend group is extremely tolerant of my endless rambling geeky musings via text and IM, but once they're sent and read, they're lost to the ether.

As June put it, "you need a journal." This way, the next time I'm having a thought and thinking have I had and expressed this exact thought before? I can just go find it right here.

And if some other people are interested in that thought too, well that's just fine.

Welcome to my Backlog.