Nothing, Something, and an Email Update.

If anyone read my "please help me" blog and didn't comment - SHAME ON YOU! Just kidding...

But now I have to explain someone. That is - James.

Before I go any further, I want to point out a new feature on my blog. I owe the idea to...well...whoever came up with it. But I owe COMPLETION of the idea to both Anna and James who commented on my last post. Of course, James was just being sarcastic. I'll bet he didn't even know he was saying something helpful. But, thanks to Anna letting me know that I could get the code for enabling E-Mail subscriptions to my blog. Now if you look in the upper right hand corner (go ahead and look now) you can type in your email address and get updates to my blog! Anna, I'll see what I can come up with for your blogging ideas, but for now, I have to continue with my verbal thrashing of one of my best friends from high school.

Depending on how you know me, you might already know who James is. If you don't know who he is then before I go on this tirade about his comment on my "please help me" post (link above if you haven't seen it), I want to make it clear that this is a friendly tirade. It's typical of our sense of humor and friendship and now that I know he's visited my site, "it's on!"

All seriousness aside, James is one of the most fluent sarcasm masters I know. And by masters, I mean that was even his major in college and he got his masters in sarcasm. But I guess that's needed in order to teach! That's what he does...he teaches. And I know he had to hone his sarcasm skills in order to teach because I remember the teachers WE had!

James commented that I should continue to blog about having nothing to blog about. Sorry, James. That idea was already used in television. I think it was called "Seinfeld" and you can now catch it in syndication.

He also commented that when he looked at his reader it would tell him that that there was a new blog post about not having anything to blog about. I'm pretty certain that this "reader" is one of his students. James can't read. He has someone he picks out to do his reading for him.

His comment about emailing people when there's new information on my the feed from my blog was intended to be completely sarcastic (trust me, I know him), but little did he know that I can actually do that! And now I have. James, have one of your students put their email address in there so they can let you know when there's more "nothing" on my blog.

He also mentioned using text messages to update people when there's an email about there being a feed about there being more on my blog. This was just a defense mechanism trying to not let on that he can't read. That was actually code for "You should call me when you have a new post! But if it's after school hours, you'll have to read it to me!"

The fact that he mentioned Morse Code is just a façade. It's a fluke he actually mentioned a legitimate, albeit antiquated, method of communication.

Ok - I think I'm done for now.

James, thanks for letting me bully you on my blog. Although you may not have seen it coming, I'm sure you'll take it in stride. In fact, you might even have one of your students type up a blog for you in vengeance!

I'm guessing his comments actually spawned from the fact that I posted a message on my facebook account saying that I had posted a blog looking for ideas on what to post. Hey! In my defense, I was trying to get the word out to the people that I know that I am looking for more ideas on what to blog about. I'm also looking for more exposure, so if you think you know someone who would enjoy my writing, feel free to pass along a link!

Bring on those ideas!

HELP! I need bloggy ideas!

Ok, so I installed Google Analytics to give me some idea as to whether or not I am actually getting any traffic. Turns out I am...a little.

That's ok, my blog isn't really meant to just reach out and grab the world just yet, but I found it interesting that I had readers in Texas, Illinois, Indiana, New York and Arkansas. (Most of those were in Texas, and by most I think it was like 9 out of 13) HA!

Anyway, it occurred to me that I have been REALLY silent and that was mostly because I wasn't sure that I had anything post-worthy. That's when I decided that I ought to see what my small circle of readers (yes, you can make a circle out of 13 people! Just ask Altell, they do it with 5) would like to hear my thoughts on. So what I'd like (if you would be so inclined as to assist me here) is to find out if there's anything that you'd like to mention and see how I might respond about it. Depending on the topic, it could be anywhere from humorous to insightful to downright boring, but it's worth a shot!

I'm really hoping to get some interesting ideas to post about and I'm not sure what to expect (if anything!) but it's going to depend on all y'all! (I know...I talk like a Texan). PLEASE give me ideas. I'm begging. I WANT to blog. I LOVE to be creative...but apparently my creativity is dependent on others. I do have one request though...please keep the topics clean.

By the way, I want to say, real quick, thanks to Anna who posted a comment the other day on one of my posts suggesting that I add a feedburner link to my blog. I have done so, and hopefully I did it right so I don't screw up my page, but in the upper right hand corner you should have a "subscribe" link. So if you subscribe to blogs, SUBSCRIBE TO MINE! :-D

I checked out some of Anna's stuff and it's worth a look, especially if you are artistically inclined. I especially liked looking at some of the pictures she took.

Additionally - I have shortened the amount of my blog that will show in readers. I kinda did this in hopes that people might be more inclined to actually visit my blog (so I'll know you're out there!) and maybe choose to leave me a comment. I hope this doesn't upset anyone, but if it does, please let me know...I don't want to drive away any of my few readers!

Anyway - let me know if you want to get inside my braindungeon and see what's lurking around!