Virginia Breeze

We see a little seismic activity in January as Virginia Breeze celebrates its first six months of existence. Most of it was about the Microsoft Vista post and the truly unpredictable nature of StumbleUpon. It was fun while it lasted but now it’s back down to earth and life after the big blow. Thankfully I had just moved from Hostican to Hostgator and they processed this event without a burb or a hiccup.

I’m going to have to get over my terror of gators if they continue to do such a great job. I still can’t figure out what the deal was with Hostican. They were giving me 90 second timeouts for 300 visitors Per DAY!

But that is all behind us now. And the future looks good as long as SU continues to ride. I don’t feel let down now that things have settled down. It’s really not a big deal. And it really is better to look at stats from week to week or month to month. In fact 60 day totals are probably even better.

Keeping day to day totals can wear you out and they mean very little.

This is probably the best compromise because it is so simple. Go to the Dashboard in Wordpress and click on Month above the graph. It’s very simple. And it gives a reassuring picture without all the ups and downs. So we can get back to more important things.

Like Creating Content so the Blogging Wise Men will have something to manage.

I must disagree with those bloggers who spend their days sharing all sorts of information with us on one issue.

If you enjoy blogging you must do what you enjoy doing. Don’t spend your time trying to figure out what your readers like. Just take it one day at a time and discover what lies within your heart and mind.

If blogging is a money making venture things are different and you should work daily at discovering what your readers need.

But if you are doing it for your own pleasure you should focus on doing what you enjoy. And you will find readers along the way who enjoy the same sorts of things.

You will become better at doing it over time and you will attract more readers. Everyone will be happy.

Readers come and go. If you spend your time pleasing them and they decide to go on down the road what do you have?

Enjoy what you do. Don’t spend time writing about something that will obviously interest no one but you. Reach out to people. But don’t leave yourself behind when you do.

We spend far too many hours on this earth trying to figure out what others want us to do. The internet provides us all with the means to enjoy ourselves by learning about various things in a participatory way. Take advantage of this opportunity to discover things about yourself. And enjoy yourself as well.

Update: I would like to thank Bernie for his excellent response to this post. He makes some excellent points and I believe he writes well. He is also a great photographer. And now that we see how the Comment Luv plugin works we can all go look at his photo of an Iris.

Before Bernie commented here I was worried that this plugin might actually frighten people away. It has been so long since anyone left a comment. And there is a weird little voice in my head that says “What did you expect? You have no loyal visitors. If you want one you should go buy a German Shepherd and teach him to read” , You see what I put up with in here?

So now I can respond to this malicious voice: “Bernie is far better than a German Shepherd AND he already knows how to read. He’s a very busy guy but he still managed to comment here. Go torment someone else.”

Several people have said recently that they are surprised by how much stuff is here. But maybe it is just the way I have organized it. You can be anywhere in the subject matter here within a few seconds and following a logical and sometimes coherent trail.

Or maybe there is a lot of stuff here. I know that I enjoy blogging very much and it helps my RLS. That’s Restless Legs Syndrome for those who are not familiar with the term.

Also (and this is very important) I don’t have a full-time job like Bernie or many of you. This is my “job”. I don’t get paid for doing it in terms of cash. But I do receive very much in terms of happiness and satisfaction. The poetry I have written here continues to attract more and more readers as Google spreads the word. “Love Poem” is a popular keyword and readers have recently started finding my work by popping it into their search engines.

Money cannot buy something like that. Thanks Bernie. And thanks everyone.

Remember Spinner? Spinner went to the beach with us last summer. He is on of Beth’s friends and she is not happy that I have ignored him for the past six months. Actually I wasn’t ignoring him. I was trying not to disturb him while he was thinking his deep thoughts.

Beth is willing to help out with StumbleUpon reviews if I promote Spinner to something. Spinner! I love you little guy! You are hereby promoted to Head Stuffed Otter of the Virginia Breeze Chapter of Otters.

If you can feel the motion of the ocean it must mean you got a promotion.

What does that mean? I’m not sure but it was rattling through my head this afternoon. We are going sailing this summer in the Bahamas. Maybe it means that Spinner will be coming with us now that he is a partner.

I would like to show him Harbor Island and the pink sand. It really is a wonderful beach. When we were there a few years ago there was a beautiful woman who I happened to notice was only wearing the bottom half of her bathing suit as she walked out into the water.

It was as if we were in another world. We went up to a hotel overlooking the beach and had some wonderful desserts while we watched little lizards scurry about the patio.

Spinner definitely needs to go with us this summer. He needs to focus on something else besides his reading.

About the end of January I really start looking forward to spring. And when I saw this photo it seemed necessary to post it. I miss the color green. And I miss yellow too.

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And then I saw this photo and had to put it up too. Spring fever strikes early around here I guess.

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More Flower Photos

http://davidnotes.com/2007/09/04/flower-talk/

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