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HAPPY ME

Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of this blog.

I have made 4,109 posts counting this one. That's about 20 a week. 2-3 a day.

If you want to see how it began, go to the right side there and click the top item under "Archives".

It is not too embarrassing.

I notice that I failed to title the first entry.

People ask me sometimes how to do it. Should they? Could they?

The real question is "Will they"?.

It takes some determination to start and a healthy self regard.

The mechanics are easy.

There are a number of free blogging hosts but I like Blogger.

It is easy. It is almost hardly ever down. The technology has steadily improved over time. There are myriad improvements in features since I started.

In the old days, the free part was justified with ads placed along the top of one's blog.

Sometimes they were infuriating. I had GWbush ads on top of my anti bushie rants.

I remember the time I read the blog and there was an add for a hemorrhoid cure on the very same day that I wrote about my own personal set of piles acting up.

Yes. I have written about damn near everything.

There are no ads today. I don't know how they justify the service.

Maybe somewhere I am being scanned for some evil scheme but I doubt it.

Blogger is now owned by Google and they don't do evil. Just censorship in China and stuff like that.

But I digress.

The whole experience of blogging is enjoyable. There are ups and downs.

I have days that I cannot stop writing even though common sense and propriety says that I should.

There are other days that I can't get it up to save my life.

I have come to accept both states and strive for the middle.

I seldom censor myself. There are a few such instances but they are mostly things I thought so important which faded into insignificance 5 minutes later.

You should try blogging. Some 50-70 million other people are doing it depending on how you count.

Oh. One more question.

You there in the back.

"Do I ever wonder if anyone is reading it?".

Yes. And it doesn't make too much difference to me.

I do get a bit sad about the possibility that there is no one else out there at all but then someone will write to me about an article and I am assured that at least one person is reading it.

The point is, really, that I read it. Every fucking word.

And I like every word that is in here. All 4,109 times 250 (average) = million of them

So I plan on staying with it.

It is against my principles to stop in the middle of something that is fun to do.

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