Happy Birthday to Me!

The fans kick on, the hard disk platters begin to spin, the BIOS splash screen is painful on the eyes since I was sitting in the dark for the past 30 minutes. I pinch the crown of my nose just hard enough to refocus my thoughts. By the time that is complete I'm able to click my way into the new world that I have known about, but never dared to explore for myself until now, much like a porn addict talking to a hot lesbian for the first time, I had found the world of blogging.

It was right at about 1 year ago that this blog came into existence. Sure, I've been active enough in the social media world, and lord knows I've spent more then my fair share of time just scouring the internet for obscure stories. Heck, I have even written some letters to the editors of local papers and emails to my elected representatives, so spilling the thoughts in my head onto the keyboard was nothing new to me. but this was different, this was public.

An honest critique of myself shows a pretty good progression in writing ability, a great refinement in where I stand politically, and maybe digging in a little deeper into my bag of whimsy. Of course when I say progression, I mean it like the infant who finally swallows cheerios without throwing up two minutes later, I am still far from good, but continue to strive for improvement.

Topically, I'm in the middle of a swing to a more granular level. Avoiding angry rants about things that anyone can tune into talk radio or turn on cable news and hear about non stop for days on end. Not that if I feel I have something to say I won't opine, just trying to avoid posts that are just regurgitation of other commentators, something that a lot of bloggers are guilty of from time to time.

The most rewarding aspect of all this, is just seeing the response  I cleared the 5000 hits mark last month and 6000 is within reach. I appear to be gaining some momentum setting new personal bests for number of views from month to month. Does this mean people like what I've had to say so far? Maybe not a lot of them, but enough to keep me plugging away every here and there and feel like I contribute a small jab in the vastness in the universe filled with jibs. It's a good feeling that is both empowering and humbling. In close, I just want to say thanks to the readers who's taken a moment of their days and listened through their eyes to what this "middle aged, midwestern, male blogger" has had to say.

P.S. Another thanks to the people who have clicked on an adsense ad while here, I've already made one car payment using this revenue and hope to make another by years end. It's all those payments that I have to make in between that are the problem now.