05
We apparently started this blog in 05. I don’t remember the month or day, but I noticed that my code to enter starts with 05. Therefor, I figured that we must have started in 05. If we actually started in 04 or 06, then I’m totally screwed up. I’ve been accused of being totally screwed up before and I can tell you from experience, it doesn’t faze me.
Blogs are a funny thing. I think in my first blog I said I thought it had something to do with bogs. Bogs are often made of peat, and if you are from Scotland, you smoke peat to make Scotch. Just an aside because I like smokey Scotch.
So we started this in 05 and there were two other bloggers who are not active anymore…I was like the outside guy, and when the other two ladies saw that I was being nominated, I think they probably said…”NO!” They may have dropped out of this Blog, or bog. because I was in it. But someone let me in and I’m still writing every Tuesday, or most Tuesdays. I don’t know if people actually read my blog every week, but we moniter the viewership and we have a bunch of people who log on every week. A bunch of people read Judy, C.R., Jeff, and Casey. I have a couple of viewers. My wife, and somebody from work. By the way, he is not threatened with his job if he doesn’t log on every Tuesday.
08 will be three years. Three years of venting, bragging, complaining, exposing the inner feelings…and it doesn’t seem possible. How could someone have 156 different essays to write? ( alright, I missed a couple). 156 different topics to write on?
Two of our members wore out. Judy, Jeff and I are still cranking them out and C.R. and Casey seem to have an endless supply of interesting, topical subjects to explore. Casey’s husband could probably write his own blog as creative as he is. Bob chimes in with some very intersting subjects and some very dry wit. Steve, Caryn, and a handful of other readers have become regulars and I thank them for responding.
I enjoy just writing whatever comes to mind. I don’t have to worry about tense, subject, voice, or any of the disciplines that demand my attention when writing a novel. I hope that I’ve entertained, enlightened, and informed any readers out there and I plan on continuing to write this blog for another three years. For the two of you who actually read it.
So if you’re reading this…and I know two of you are, pour yourself a smokey Scotch and raise your glass. Here’s to three years of Blogs and bogs and amber colored liquor. Here’s to Judy and Jeff, to Casey and C.R…to Zorro , Heather, Sharon, Bob. Caryn, Josephine and Steve and all the rest of you .
If it was just the five of us, writing and responding, it would be worth the time and the fun. But again, I have at least two full time readers…and as all authors know, you build an audience one reader at a time. And I’m looking for number three. Anybody else out there?
Don
