JUST SOME SATURDAY NIGHT BLITHERING & BLATHERING

Some days have more built in spurts of energy than others but today wasn't one of them.  Had some plans to go into Elfrida this morning but we just couldn't seem to get off our keisters.  Well, I couldn't anyway.  We had cloud cover overhead first thing so it took a long time to warm up.  I do not get motivated well in cold weather anymore so it ended up just being a puttering kind of day.  Cleaned a few windows, straightened up a few bins & enjoyed sitting in my chair watching the birds at the seed ball feeder.  Neighbor Doug came over & installed a new battery in the ATV & that was about the height of activity for the whole day.

Weatherman says some bad weather is heading into Arizona starting about Tuesday so we may be getting wind & rain.  Wind means tough sleeping & rain means 6.4 tons of Arizona mud in the motorhome.  And we have become aware of something else this past week.  The winds of travel are beginning to stir:))

With the exception of maybe 4 or 5 days at the end of last March when we returned from the southwest I have now been blogging daily now for well over a year.  First started blogging in September of 07 & my blogger dashboard counter tells me I have made 676 posts.  That's a lot of keystrokes.  I have always been one of those people who have kind of kept records on & off over the years.  Diaries so to speak or just daily recordings in a school notebook.  I still have those books at home & came across them one day this past summer.  I have several scribblers dating back to the mid to late 50's when I sometimes wrote out my daily activities.  I was growing up in Tavistock Ontario at the time & a typical entry would look like this....."Went down to Bob's today & we traded some comic books.  It was warm this morning so we walked up town to Joe's Place & split a milkshake.  Bob always has more money than me.  Roy came in & said he heard John sold his old bicycle.  Bob, Roy, & I went back to Bob's & watched television because his Mom & Dad went to Stratford shopping"..................and so it went & so it went.

Some of the diaries I looked back upon were more serious, like back in 1967 & 69 when things were really beginning to get out of control in my life with the alcohol & drugs.  Only one bad experience with the drugs so I consider myself very fortunate to have dodged a major bullet in those years.  A lot of my friends at the time didn't.  That one bad experience was enough to put me off that short lived lifestyle & steered me clear of drugs ever after that.  The alcohol addiction was another story but I'm getting off track here.  Just started out to say how happy I was when this blogging craze started a few years ago because for people like myself it's a great outlet at the end of each day to sit down at the computer & merrily blather on about the day's activities.  It's a way to throw out ideas, express feelings, record events, state opinions, let the creative side roll, bubble up some humor, offer advice, information, & just generally enjoy an enjoyable hobby.   And, for somebody like me with a basic fear of people (I think there is a medical term for that) it enables me to communicate in the only style I am comfortable with.

I think the success of any blogger is in the readers.  How many of us would continue to do this every day or week if nobody was reading. I'm betting most if not all of us would gradually pack up our keyboards & just fade away.  There are basically only 2 ways for a blogger to know if anyone is interested in what they are writing about.  One is the counters like Sitemeter or Feedjit that keep a record of every hit or visit on a person's blogsite.  These meter monitors tell the blogger how many people have visited their site each day.  Some tell the amount of time a visitor spends on the blog, & some show what photos have been viewed.  Feedjit shows from what website the visitor came from & what blogsite they go to when they leave.  Both Sitemeter & Feedjit often show what city the person has visited from as well.   The other way a blogger knows if anybody is reading their blog is by the comments, shouts, & emails.  If a blogger isn't receiving any feedback from people but his metering counter is showing 75 people are visiting his site everyday it may mean that people are not interested enough in the content to comment.  It may be time for the blogger to rethink his subject matter.  So, if your out there reading my fellow blogger’s sites, send them a note & say hello from time to time.  Let them know your out here.  Let them know they are not just blowing smoke into the wind everyday:))

Some blogs like mine are always way too long but I've always been a blithering blabberfingers anyway.  Remember those journals from the late fifties.   Tioga George has it figured out though.  Just a few sentences or maybe a paragraph 2 or 3 times a day.  People don't get bored & come back to his site several times a day to see what he's up to.  It's a good way to chalk up the number of hits on a website too.  I think George is way out in front of the pack with over a million hits on his blogsite & yep, we got the Tiogaman on our desktop as well.

Well, for not having anything to blog about tonight it sure looks like I have blathered on as usual so with that I will quickly exit myself out of here...........stage right!!

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