My 100th Post

I started blogging on June 26th, 2009. I have averaged slightly more than 6 posts per week, so have hit the 100 milestone in 108 days. I really did not expect to a stay with daily blogs this long. I started blogging because I had a few things I wanted to commit to writing - sort of a therapeutic treatment for stress. I have a lot of stress at work, and found that blogging does nothing for that. It does help me reduce stress caused by non-working life - mainly my dissatisfaction with the direction of the American government. I have taken out my aggression on President Obama, those who elected him, Liberals, Democrats and several other nuisances. It makes me feel better and I thank you for putting up with it.

At first, Terri was not supportive of my blogging. I think she feared that I would be sharing all of her personal secrets and short comings (by the way, she has none). Over time, she saw that my posts are more innocuous than harmful. Now she just tells me that I got the dates wrong, which is probably true more often than not.

About a month after I began blogging, I decided to allow Google to place ads on my blog. I harbored no illusions that it would become profitable, and that has become very true. So far my blog has earned me 48 cents. That makes the math pretty easy. Each post is worth about a half cent. If I post 400 times a day, I could make a living at this.

So now I ask myself "Self, do you want to continue?". I think so, but I may start to miss a few days here and there. I find the difficulty in blogging is not the writing. I can crank a couple of posts out over my lunch hour without a problem. The difficulty is finding things that interest me enough to write about. My favorite subjects are the personal and family topics, but my life is not that exciting so that well runs dry pretty fast.

My next favorite topic is to point out the double standards our mainstream media (M&M's) apply to public servants, depending on their ideology. That is a rich source because you can find a good example every day. I suspect that my readers, all 5 of you, bore rapidly when I get on those rants.

My favorite posts so far are:

• Intervention - I thought the premise was clever. Unfortunately a nephew-in-law annoyingly pointed out the factual inaccuracies of the piece which was a buzz-kill. Still I had fun writing it.
• The Geology of my Neighborhood - I just had fun collecting the rocks and researching their origins. It probably bored those who read the post, but still was one of my favorites.
• Don't Use the Customer's Bathroom - By far my most humorous post. I wish I had another 50 stories like that.

Maybe if I cut the volume, I can improve the quality? Nah.

I like to see the comments (very rare lately), so keep them coming.