August 10, 2009

• In The Beginning……….

  So Saturday August 15th is my 5 year Xangaversary. When I think about internet blogging or hell any type of journal, keeping at it consistently is rare. I look back at the people who have subscribed to me or people who I have subscribed to and many of them no longer blog. Or they blog so infrequently that I have forgotten about them. Or they have deleted their user name. Or they have gotten a restraining order against me. Or have threatened to kill me. Or attempted. Or came so close that it made me cry. Nevertheless, I’ve gone through more friends and readers on Xanga than Larry King has gone through wives. And that was just in the first year.

  Although some people have gone back and read every single of the 1,267 posts (holy shit that’s a lot of fuckin posts!) I’ve ever written (and thank you, I’m glad somebody has read it besides me) I haven’t had anybody who has been there the whole entire time since the start. Come to think of it, I don’t have many people who read my Xanga on even a semi regular basis. Hell it even took me several months before I got my first comment. And even now, I still routinely go days without getting comments. But that’s ok. I would do it even if not a single person read it. To put it selfishly, I blog as much for me as I do for anybody else. I to write that much for 5 years, you have to not only love it, but also want to do it for yourself. From time to time I go back and reminisce on various things that have happened in my life. Its usually kinda fun to do that. I would highly recommend that everybody keep some sort of journal about their life, if only so that they can look back at their own life with wonder and amusement at various times in their life.

  I’ve never been quite consistent in what I’ve written about. I’ve always been one of those annoying know it all types who have an opinion on every thing. Or nearly everything. And as we know, opinions are kinda like assholes, everybody has one and they all stink. Xanga is one place where I’ve always been able to be myself and not hold back. From time to time, I have offended people. This is always bound to happen whenever anybody with strong and passionate opinions writes something. And because I attempt (the key word being attempt) to write things that are funny, that probably adds to people being offended. But, its not often that I have offended people. If I have offended many, I’ve only heard about it a handful of times. Of course, maybe the reason why some people stopped reading is because I have offended them in some way. I’ve never been one to make some fake apology after offending somebody. Hell, if I didn’t mean what I wrote at the time, than chances are I wouldn’t have written it. I can honestly say though that I never intentionally set out to maliciously offend somebody, which is a hell of a lot more than Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter could say.

  The past couple of months, I set out to try to read as many of my old posts as possible to try to not only come up with my best and worst posts, but also to see how my writing has changed over the years. I can say that I think I have gotten much better compared to the shit I used to write. Now I think I’ve upgraded from shit to crap. That’s an improvement my friends! When I first started, I didn’t have premium and therefore no spell check. I’ve never been a good speller and never been the best at typing, which made for a bad combo. I also was just generally bad at writing, even something as simple as where end and where to start paragraphs or how much space to put in between paragraphs proved to be a challenge. I’m still not all that good at that aspect of writing, but its vastly improved from how it was before. As for the quality of the writing, well, it still leaves much to be desired but has again improved over the years. There has been some stuff I’ve gone back and read and said to myself “holy shit, that was awful, what the fuck was I thinking?” and still some other stuff that I’ve arrogantly thought “that was damn good, I wish more people would have read that.” Most of the stuff has been somewhere in between.

  Just a couple of things to end this post. When I looked back, I used to post much more frequently, sometimes almost 30 times a month. I’ve gotten into a routine though of around 17 posts a month. With 1,267 posts, that averages out to 21 a month or 253 a year. That means that in an average year, I go 112 days without posting. That’s a lot of time on this here site and I have no plans to ever stop.

  This week I’m going to try to make several posts to celebrate this milestone. I’ve also posted a new profile picture which was taken on June 6 of this year. The other picture was 7 years old and well overdue for an update. Also, I kinda looked like a serial killer in the old pic. The new one though I kinda look like an escaped mental patient.

  Shit. There I go, offending again.

  • 10:47 pm
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