Have you noticed how much I’ve been posting?  There’s good reason for that.  M. is on vacation until the end of August, and that leaves me off the hook for running around like a crazy person for 5 or 6 hours a day.  It’s amazing what you can do with an extra 6 hours a day.  I have read a lot of things that don’t come through the mail.  I’ve battled with laptops filled to the brim with STD’s (Dave’s laptop…one too many porn sites…he needs one of those silicone dolls or a girlfriend…who are we kidding? what woman alive could resist the mountain man beard and D-cups!).  I finished my paper.  And, I’ve found time to consider this blog.

 

I’ve been reading some of the BlogHer conference posts, and I’m intrigued.  I’m not a joiner by nature.  I’m a lone wolf (am too dammit).  I have learned over the years that it’s best if I pretend to be aloof and stay the heck away from organizations of any sort.  There’s just too much pissing of legs going on in most of them for my taste, and inevitably, my “I’d love to help” attitude is considered a threat to the (un)holy order (or maybe it’s my willingness to call a spade a spade…I’ve noticed people don’t care to hear the truth sometimes). 

 

But, because of the BlogHer posts, I’m starting to wonder where I fit into the blogosphere.  Fussy has links to some BlogHer keynote speakers and a link to a NY Times article on BlogHer which mentions several blogs, and I’ve been peeking in on them (what? wolves circle their prey first…not that I’d prey on anyone…well, not since that last restraining order).  Some of them don’t have any more commenters than this blog has which makes me think I must be neglecting this blog somehow. 

 

Clusty pumped me up a good bit too when I searched “honeywine” and my blog came up as the #2 hit out of over 6,000!  Go ahead and look.  I’ll wait.  I admit to looking for it a few months back and couldn’t even find it until I added Pascal to the search (I was still about the 8^th hit).  The nice thing was that it was the post about me shaving his butt.  I like a nice opening when meeting new people.  Uhhh…I mean…a nice opening line.

 

Feeling guilty and thinking about where those other 80 or so daily hits are coming from (it can’t be my commenters looking that often…ya’ll know I don’t post that much), I decided to see what Stumble was.  In case you haven’t noticed the sidebar, I think I screwed it up pretty good.  I’m guessing I’ll have to go whole hog and move up to a domain name and a real professional (i.e.- cash enhanced) blog for it to work on wordpress.  But, should I get my own domain?  Honeywine.com is already taken.  So, I’d have to figure something out. Plus, several of the blogs cited by the NY Times (and I have to believe that you’re pretty hip into the bloggingness if the NY Times talks about you) have blogs that aren’t on their own special domain.  So I’m wondering if that’s just asking for more trouble than its worth? 

 

I’ve honestly become semi-addicted to blogs (yours especially…ok, so I’m not good at sucking up).  I like being able to write about virtually anything that pops into my head, and it’s nice to look inside other people’s heads and to find out if they think you’re a nutter.  I’m starting to think I would like to add to my readership and up the ante on my writing and just reach out more.  I don’t expect to become rich (well I can dang sure dream about it…we all do…then reality sets in), but frankly, ya’ll have become my online dating alternative.  Other than the blogs, there’s just not much reason for me to fight the dial-up unless I’m working or looking for something specific.  Since M. controls the tv remote like it’s going to triple the size of his manhood if he just pushes enough buttons, it’s kind of nice to live vicariously online.  Living in a jerk water town can definitely add to the loneliness, and it’s nice to have intelligent people to listen in on (hell no, husbands don’t count…I found M. reading this the other day when I came back from the bathroom…he told me he likes to read my blog because “it lets me know what’s going on in your life”….ummm…we spend all but 3 hours a day together!  wth?). 

 

Am I setting myself up for trouble?  Should I forget about “upgrading” to the cash-blog?  (mind you, it won’t happen for a couple of months at best…until the class is dead and gone)