A post about posting

With three chapters of a book about blogging under my belt, I'm excited for my readers out there. This blog is going to be awesome. Nono, wait. This blog is going to be awesome. That's better. If the book delivers everything promised by the author, it will be impossible for me not to produce The Blog to End All Blogs. Maybe that needed an exclamation point? . . ! . . No. That would be too much.

To this point, the book has mostly been dedicated to defining blogs and blogterms, explaining briefly the available options for starting a blog, and glimpsing in to the blogger lifestyle. The biggest thing I've taken out of it so far is the idea that blogs should be updated probably a minimum of five times a week. Any large gaps between posts may lead regular readers to give up on checking the blog or to stray to other blogs that add content more consistently (3).

So I want to thank you, readers, for sticking with me through the big blog drought of May and June and July. . . Oh. . . and October. I'm not sure I've earned that sort of dedication, but I'm grateful for it (20).

The mission

I've come to the realization that this blog has gradually veered from its original purpose - to make me into a better person. Now, I'm not saying that the blog is entirely to blame. But I'm pretty sure it's mostly the blog's fault. I mean, come on, it is the blog's mission. Isn't it?

Anyway, I'm going to use the upcoming NaBloPoMo to get this blog back on track because without the proper guidance, most blogs will deteriorate into narcissistic ramblings about how certain things suck and certain other things rock and will often dedicate lengthy passages filled with deep philosophical ruminations on the greatness of America's Next Top Model. So my first post of November will be a revisiting of the list. I will track my progress and update the list where necessary. Then I'll throw myself back at the list because I've been straying from it for a bit now. And that's what you, my deardear readers, have in store next month. Yay.

On a different note, I'm good at poker. That's not just my opinion either. I can now cite a second source for that information. So I was playing in a sit-n-go (a small tournament that starts whenever a certain number of players sign up for it) and it was down to just me and another guy. After I made a play to build up a pot for myself (I'll spare you the details), some observer chimed in with a "your good." Now two people think I'm good at poker. I'll try to forget the fact that one of them doesn't know the difference between your and you're.

I'm grateful for a random stranger's validation of my ability to do something I probably shouldn't be doing in the first place (20).