Everything and Nothing

823,943 blogs on word press.com, and perhaps the shortest, not to mention most uninteresting, blog I’ve EVER written, on WP, at random, pops up as “BOTM“. Using that particular acronym, here now, seems somehow appropriate, “BOTTOM” indeed! Blog of the minute, I’m guessing, is there in part at least, to get your blog noticed, thereby hopefully, increasing your page hits/readership…whatever. WAIT…

Before I go too much further with this, let me just stress that, this rant is in no way a rant against WordPress, it is by far the best platform I’ve used thus far, and the one I plan on continuing to use. This is nothing more than ME blowing off steam, at “dumb luck” , which it would appear, is NOT blowing in my favor at the moment Consider that smiley a period, just because it’s one of my eccentricities[?], that I think a period looks goofy following an emoticon. But I digress which, as you’ll see, I do a lot, nevertheless I just wanted to make that point clear, I realize “botm” is a random thing, I just wish it could have picked a post worth picking.

Hopefully that brought a little clarity as to my intentions regarding this post, if not, well…I tried . So, with any luck at all, the sparsity of my very first blog, on WP at least, will be forgiven. Hell, maybe someone will take what I said, and out of sheer curiosity, probably the same kind one has when passing a wreck on the freeway , use it as a reason to at least bookmark the page…maybe. Rest assured, under ordinary circumstances, my reaction to the fact that it showed up there at all, would have been FAR different, i.e. a reaction, somewhat similar to the one I’d have if Ed McMahon (is he still alive?), knocked on my door, telling me I won; Publishers Clearing House giveaway, [Tangent] which BTW, I’m convinced no-one actually ever WINS, but…there I go, off on another tangent again, see? I told you .  Seriously, I’ve come to look at my tangents as, a mental metronome, of sorts, if you will, almost an integral part of my writing. Somewhat analogous to one of those noises you don’t quite hear, but as soon as it’s no longer there, you get the feeling that something is missing, you’ve no idea as to what that something might be, you just know it’s not there anymore…TICK…TICK…TICK…TICK. So I guess you could say, I’ve accepted them as a consequence of being ‘manic-depressive‘, and having the attention span of a Gerbil, not that I know what kind of attention span Gerbils have, I just liked the way it sounded…sue me. [/Tangent]

Okaaaaaayyy……where was I, before I so rudely interrupted myself? Ahhh yes, increasing readership/page hits. Well, as I said at that time, I can only hope that my original post, generated enough curiosity, in at least a few people, that perhaps, they’ll come back and have a look sometime. I will do my damnedest to stick to my promise; of making this site a bit more interesting than, at least, say…watching paint dry.

Hey, in society in general, the theme seems to be “CYA”, and I KNOW I can make my site more interesting than “watching paint dry“…  , I mean, let’s not set the bar too high, right at the outset…………….

Monday Apr. 02, 2007