Maintaining a weblog and maintaining some semblance of balance in one’s life is a delicate equation. When you’re working, you’re constantly thinking of topics upon which to write. I can be touting the wonderfulness of Home Depot’s tools and realize that I should post on how many tools there are in Atlanta, in the non-hardware variety, that is. I’ll be driving to work and cut off by some smoking hoochie in her black BMW and I think that I should broach the subject of smoking in society and whether or not it really is a deal breaker in relationships. I can race home to beat my darling roommate so that I can get the garage on a cold evening and I ponder writing about the time I announced that it was “Cat Treats for Dinner” night because I refused to move my car out of the garage and go get them new food. Basically, every intracacy, anomaly, and seemingly normal behavior, occurance or incident is fodder for my fire.

As such, I find myself posting on more regular intervals than I did in the past. While they may not be nearly as witty, have endings that wrap up the anecdotes in a nice, neat, Aubrey-approved package, or invoke the writing genius that I try and channel when creating an entry of importance, at least they come, and come frequently, at that. I used to send out an email to a group of friends (read: practically everyone I knew, including – by mistake, once or twice – jerkface ex-boyfriends) alerting them to any updates on my site. They (ok, most of them) had expressed that they never knew when I wrote new posts, and that they’d love (ok, wouldn’t mind) getting a short email indicating as such. As any good friend would, I acquiesced.

Yet as days got longer, my free time began to dwindle and these posts became written earlier in the mornings and after work (yet ‘scheduled’ to post mid-day when most people checked the site), I found myself with little time for these alert emails, possibly leaving MANY of my devoted fans (ha) without any indication of updates. The tragedy! The horror! The disaster this could cause – what would they DO without this oh-so important notice!?

I searched high and low for solutions, inquiring with the kind folks at TypePad about the creation of this feature, and until now, with little success. Yet behold, the power of the internet and smart people that know Biz Stone, Genius, I have long last found a solution.

It’s called “Bloglet” and it allows you – the interested reader – to simply input your email address over there on the right (You see it? Look to the right. Scroll down a bit if you have to. There’s an empty text box. See?) and voila! Upon my new entry, a nice little email will arrive in your inbox alerting you to the changes, complete with a short synopsis of the post. Glory, Glory Hallelujah.

See? Despite a gray, nasty, rainy day here in (the antithesis of Hot)Lanta, the World (Wide Web) is a wonderful place.