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My blog ages, the spam retreats…

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I don’t know if this is a phenomenon that everyone experiences but here is something that I have noticed.  As my blog has gotten older, the amount of spam that I have been receiving in the comments has reduced a great deal.  I don’t know if it is a function of my neglect of the blog lately or if it really has to do with something else.

I did go back to using Disqus for my comment system but even before that Akismet seemed a bit lonely.  I don’ t know if this is a good sign or not.  I am thinking while my blog has stagnated so have comments.  I have been getting fairly decent traffic but not many comments over the past year.  But for the spam to reduce?
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If Only to Ramble, I want to be Ford Prefect.

Just to warn you, this is a rambling post.  If you can’t handle that, leave a comment and grab a copy of my e-Book, Death With A Vengeance.  It is a good read.

Wow, Wednesday was not good for writing.  I just couldn’t get any ideas to do anything but sit there.  I guess I could say it was writers block, I could say I am just overwhelmed with stuff to do.  Or I can man up and say it was hard to write today.

Ok, it was hard to write today.  I am sure everyone has had the same experience at one time.  Or all of the time.  I have read countless posts about having too many windows open, too many emails to read and too many tweets to keep up with.  I did better on Tuesday when I had it all mapped out.  But I didn’t have to paint the hallway on Tuesday now did I?

Just a quick question that I would like solid answers for, why does a newborn care what the hallway looks like?  Or the Basement?  The kid can’t see more than 12 inches for a month or so anyway.  Hormones are insidious little bastards that just make more work for me.

So I am stuck in some strange vortex that is starting to make me mad.  I have things I want to write, I have blog posts I need to write, I have things I want to read, Affliate programs I want to review, and products I want to develop to sell.  I need to get organized.  And focused.  Maybe I just need more sleep.

Sorry for the ramblings, I am sure Thursday will be better.  But, to quote the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (one of the best books EVER) I never did get the hang of Thursdays.  Thank you Douglas Adams.

Your well crafted and highly entertaining comments will be welcome below.

-Justin

Long Day’s and Taking a Day Off

Hello all. You will notice that this post is somewhere close to 7 hours later than I usually post. It has been, as the title suggests, a long day. I am not just trying to complain. I could do that. But I won’t. I did however learn how to take apart my laptop and get the punch out of it. Presidents Day and the kids home from school do not necessarily make for the writing time bliss that I have allocated for a normal day.

Suffice it to say, I have post ideas now but no posts written. Yet another reason to join the Pre-Writing Challenge! We are beginning February 19th and will be going for a month in order to have 2 weeks worth of posts prewritten. See my page Here for more info. Would have come in handy for today as it would have on Friday!

So this brings me to today’s post. I have been debating the virtues of taking the weekend off. This weekend I scheduled some tweets to go out on Saturday for my fiction posts and then I didn’t get back on the computer for much of anything! It was kind of nice, not chaining myself to my laptop but I have hardly any traffic to show for it.

This may not be a bad thing. The good news is that I actually had traffic for 2 days with hardly any promotion. Not much traffic, mind you but some. That is the first step to becoming one of the big bloggers I think. Getting traffic without doing anything. Of course if I don’t do anything during the week my blog will fade and I will turn into nothing but a statistic; one of the failed bloggers.

I still am not going to post on Sunday. I am still going to post fiction on Saturday and put out e-books of said fiction when they are all out there. I will have some posts to post when I have issues with life. I was beginning to question whether it was worth posting or commenting on the weekends. It may be. I don’t think I will be doing anything different though.

If you are reading this Thank you! I will have more tomorrow at a more reasonable time. And it will be about hitting things.
Justin

Overloading the Brain Pan and the Hamstrings…

Today I am getting up off of the ground and grabbing the bridle of the horse that threw me off.  With some shaking and choice profanities I am getting back on it and riding this blog beast!

Yesterday I spent all day setting up a new website and blog, which is much the same as my old blog but with better plugins.  Not too exciting but there it is.

Today I am back to writing and back to doing my kettlebells!  Swings, swings and more swings, with some get ups.  And planks, my abs are sore.

anyway, later for more writing!

justin

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