Blog Rambling
I'm using this post to ramble a bit about what this blog means to me and where I see it going. It's been almost two weeks now since I started my Scribble Pad and in general, I'm quite pleased with my efforts to date. Oh, I got caught up the the whirlwind excitement of it all ... looking for a template that would be what I had envisioned, setting up the 'high' profile links, surfing for the right goodies, buttons, gadgets ... installing a commenting system ... a stats counter ... creating a folder of blogs to watch ... surfing for quizzes, polls and other net oddities. I can see how one can get caught up in the 'star' aspect of it all and I have, admittedly, gone to my blog just to check for comments and to check out the hit anaylzer. Have I brushed up on my html, yes. Have I been a little more critical in watching, reading and observing life in general, yes. Have I stepped outside of my comfort zone online, venturing to sites previously not bookmarked, yes. Do I want my blog to end up here? No. Do I want linkbacks? No, well they would be nice I guess but unimportant in my overall blog scheme. Do I want to be the best blog, the worst blog? No and No. I just want this blog to be for me, about me, for the most part. Yes, confirmation and validation is fine along the way, but ultimately, this is something for me. A chronology of my life, my thoughts, my rants and some of the mundane things that are my life. This is something that won't get lost in a box in the next move. I won't set parameters on which topics I will and will not post about, nor promise to be like clockwork on anything else. Is this starting to sound like Baz Luhrmann? It wasn't meant to be. My blog is just developing and I hope that that development both documents and mirrors my personal development in this journey we call life.