Busting My Cherry

With all the shit that happens during an average day when can I find time to blog. Is this a priority issue. Work, make dinner, fix the car, blog. Do I have my priorities all fucked up?

I titled this post for a reason. I was introduced to blogging a couple of years back. Leo Laporte the Tech Guy mentioned this thing I had not really thought about before. BLOG. I had heard this word used when listening to CNN and they would say “There will be a flame war on the liberal blogs because of this”.  Great more war.

Anyways, the Tech Guy mentioned this web site called Vox.com. He said blogs are used for everything from discussing what happened to you today to erotica. Well he said the magic word or at least a word close to it, SEX.

So being a guy I had to see what all of the hubbub was about, which meant I wanted to see sex. I went to Vox and started poking around. Where was the sex. Nudity. Porn? My first looksee did not bring any of this up. Hmm? What I did find was this community of people sharing their lives. They call the other bloggers “friends” and you can collect friends and put them in your neighborhood. Being a transplanted Mid-Western boy living in Los Angeles where you are lucky if you know the name of the person in the house on either side of yours this sounded appealing. Kind of Mayberry RFDish.

I created an account.

Now what should I do. What should I blog about. Well I guess I was suppose to write about what was going on in my life. But why would anyone care about what I am doing? People I live with don’t care so why would a total stranger give a damn?

What was going on in my ife that I could write about? Hmm?

Around this time I was seeing a couple of professionals. These were mind professionals not physical. They both agreed that I should start writing down my feelings. Being old school I thought this meant take out a notepad and a pencil and start writing. Well I did ust that. I wrote page after page about my life and my feelings. I started to notice that I was always writing about one thing. That one thing was my wife of 16 years had cheated on me.

At my next appt. with my professionals I brought along my notebook. I was ready to sit there and have them read it and we would talk about it. I was shocked to hear them say, “No it was just for you. We don’t want to read it.” I thought to myself “why the hell am I paying these people?”

Well I finally figured out why they told me to do this, writing down my feelings. It allowed me to read it and to see what was happening inside my head.

Pretty much everything I put down on paper dealt with my wife. It was then I realized she could very easily find this notebook and read it. That would not be good. The computer. I thought lets start writing n the computer. So I transcribed my notes into word documents. That helped a lot because as you may see from time to time I am not good with spelling and grammar.

OK, OK, back to blogging.

Good ole Leo Laporte pointed me into the world of blogging. I took some of my word doc’s and copied & pasted them into my first blog.

I started getting comments on my posting. I was amazed. Somebody found me and thought it was interesting enough to comment on.

That is how it all began.

Well now I guess I have grown up and thought it was time I spread my wings a fly. This is what I expect to do with my new Word Press blog.

I will not have an instand update t all my neighbors over at Vox. I will just have to wait and see if I am really that intresting without the help of a built in community.

If I’m not then so what. At least I will be reading what I write and in the end that is the most important thing.

Isn’t it?