Today marks the 300th post on this blog, or blogcast as I prefer. I'm trying to create a new word here, and it is taking awhile to make it accepted. It has almost been six years since I started this little thing as a way to get back into writing. Since I started this blog, I started a second blog for my store that was co-hosted here on Blogger (that blog has pretty much ended as I didn't have enough new material about my store to keep it going). I started a third blog just for my literary pursuits. That one is about halfway through my second novella/short novel. Sure, it is just a first draft, but it is successful. I had my store join Facebook, with my own joining initially secondary. I now share my blogs with links there. I also have my own YouTube channel. I've posted over seventy videos there, shared with my pages on Facebook and LinkedIn. I haven't created a social media juggernaut, yet, but the structure has been set up for it. I didn't have a computer the first few years, so most of those early posts had to be short, as I usually only had fifteen to twenty minutes most weeks. This is also explains why I'm missing the occasional week in my posts. Other missing weeks are due to posting on the wrong blog and losing the posts before I could paste them in the right spot. Those were replaced at a later date, so there still is about one post per week. It took me some time to come up with the best topic. Supposedly, this blog focuses on puzzles and games, but I am prone to digressions. I have even posted many of my own puzzles. Just last month, I ended a four week span of new puzzles. Those last two weeks took extra time to finish, but those were two of the best puzzles I ever came up with. I could barely stop with them, as I kept wanting to come up with more of them. Even when I don't talk about puzzles, I frequently use wordplay in the post titles. Puns are most common. For instance, today's post title is to be sung to "Bottles of Beer on the Wall." Sometimes, I place hidden messages, either in the title or buried in the main text. I hid a message in the first letters of the words in a title just last December. You just might find it, in the end, if you traffic luck, that is. Entertainment is another common theme, mostly about what I find fault with, more so than what I really like. I also talk a lot about animals. One of my first posts was about an emu at house I drive by on my way to work. Alas, the emu/s were sent away shorty thereafter, but that doesn't mean the animal fun has ended. Just last week I mentioned bunnies, as part of an Easter post. I also talk about my own problems, probably too much personal information, but I can't help it. This blog is a part of how I deal with and air out my grievances. I rarely use tags any more. It is just too hard to come up with new ones some weeks, or just rehashing the same old ones. I don't post too many picture, either. I just have problems getting them how I want them to look on the page. Links are the same. Cutting and pasting is just tiresome, at times. I don't even have links to the posts I mentioned here. While I now have my own computer, I still try to keep my allotted time to thirty minutes or so. This keeps my posts tight and easy to read. I have no idea how much longer I will keep this blog going. I usually get my ideas a week or more ahead of time, so I currently have no plans of changing my schedule or discontinuing this. Here's to everyone who has enjoyed my thoughts and words for the past six years, almost, and here's to many more.
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