Blog This!

So this is for anybody reading this (IS anybody reading this??) that doesn’t know me, or doesn’t know me well, or does know me but would like a refresher, or does know me well, but just enjoys being retold shit they already know…

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So this is it. My first blog. Ever. I’m slightly surprised by this, that it’s taken so long, as I’m an admitted computer and internet junky. I was there in the beginning, and I spent many, many hours wasting as much time as I possibly could online. If there was a new internet trend, I knew about it, and had likely at least dabbled in it. And then it slowed. Perhaps because I grew older. Perhaps because I became more busy with my life. Perhaps because I eventually just got bored. It was during this downtime that “blogging” took hold. Before I even knew what happened, it seemed that everyone had a blog, whether they should or not. Blogging became a new portal. A new way that everyone could tell everyone what they thought. The new independent publishing medium. Regardless of if you could write or not, as long as you could type, you could blog. And they did. Everyone had their blog, whether they deserved one or not. The internet became filled with the mundane, trivial babblings of anyone that cared to type them. And I began to resent the blog for this, thinking it’s awfully presumptuous and vain to assume that people care what you have to say in your blog. Because honestly, for most people, I could give a rat’s ass.

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