Am not generally a "joiner". From years of sitting alone as an out of towner, am more comfortable with taking a pillow off on my own. From previous TIs, most "connection" to the TI arose from Roshi's weekly email comments; i.e., the experience of TI has been largely a solo, personal effort. So while not entirely sceptical about the value of a blog to the TI experience, I am watchful to keep TI about making the effort to meet the commitment and not about diluting the effort with chat about the effort.