no more bedhead

They say you shouldn't start a blog post by mentioning how long it's been since the last time you posted, so I won't. But, holy cow.

I often think I should get back to this and I end up working in fits and starts. Recently my cousing posted a link from a Facebook page called The Writer's Circle, with a "challenge" if you will. The challenge is 30 days of writing.  They have nicely provided a list of thirty topics on which to write, and the idea is to write on one of the topics each day.

I thought that sounded like fun, and maybe if I was given a topic on which to write I'd be better at actually getting it done.  Since there are 30 items on the list, and it was the end of October when I saw the post, I thought November would be a great time to start. So, here we go...

I am trying to catch up on some posts that I should have published while on the road. I am 'back-dating' them, so that they show up in the right order, so if you've been following along you might not see them. I'll list them here as they are posted, so you can find them, then a few days after the last one is live, I'll delete this post. Just so's you know.

End of Convention - Vacation Begins!
Main Street, USA
Tomorrowland
Fantasyland
Mickey's Toontown
New Orleans Square
Critter Country
Frontierland
Adventureland

So, I noticed today that it has been 5 weeks since I posted. Wow. However, this will not be a new post. (Okay, technically it is.) It's just a note to say that I fixed the commenting.

A while back, Blogger started offering the option to have the commenting page appear on the same template as the main page, under the post in question. That's really the way I would like to have it, so I changed to that option. Well, apparently that is not working. At least for me.

Ellen mentioned once that she couldn't post, and I sort of filed it away and never actually tried to troubleshoot the problem. Today I was talking to Herk, while I was online, and he said he was having the same problem. So, I changed it back to the "new page" option.

Commenting should be working now. Alert the mainstream media.

So I gave my mom the address for this blog today. This got me thinking that maybe I should post a disclaimer for close family, and then that led into thoughts about why I blog in the first place. It's not that I have a lot to say that I think the world needs to hear, and it's not a therapeutic exercise (although there are elements of both).

When I was a senior in high school, I took a creative writing class in which we had the assignment to keep a journal and write in it 15 minutes per day. I really liked the exercise, and continued it into college. It was fun writing, reflecting, and posing questions to myself. It was even more fun years later to look back on that writing and reflect on how much has changed, how much has not, and what a rambling idiot I was (arguably still am)! So I guess in a nutshell that's why I blog - it's fun writing these things down and then more fun (potentially) looking back at them later. Technology has changed the format, but the rationale is the same.

Now the disclaimer. This is my life. These are my thoughts and reflections. While everything is family friendly right now, I make no guarantees. The f-bomb may come through occasionally, depending upon my mood when I'm writing. Don't be offended. Or do. I don't care. I'm writing for me, not for you. (But I'll try to keep the "kids" postings clean!!)

Thanks for stopping by.