I was looking at the statistics for my blog yesterday. I realized, that this is the fifth month my blog has been in existence. I am grateful that I decided after a few years of thinking about starting a blog. What I am more excited about is you take the time to read what I write, that is the real excitement of my blog!

Some days are fun, and some are hard when I am sit here typing a post. Some days, I am really comfortable with what I am writing, other days I feel like I am really stepping out on a slippery ledge. Through these last months which seem to have been so quick, you have taken the time to read my thoughts, find something useful, or at least a worthwhile read. When I was a poker forum junkie, I would go from site to site, and inhale every word that someone took the time to write. Eventually it dawned on me that I had been reading mostly the same things every day.

That was one of the big hurdles I had with this blog. Power Blogger’s suggest that a blog stick to one main subject, and everything be written towards the blog’s focus. They also suggest that articles be kept to three hundred words or less, because longer posts tend to turn off readers. There are some other rules that are out there that I should have be following too, but I have not. That was one of the things that kept me from starting earlier, I could not imagine how I could have a blog that anyone would actually read, when I was going against all the generally acceptable ideas about blogging.

The five months this blog has been in existence have shown that what is right for me, is absolutely okay. If I was writing this solely for myself, I would still be saying breaking rules is correct. I have read of other who have started their blogs, and they say they are enjoying amazing results, and I am happy for them. I have been to some of their sites, and most of them I will not be going back to because they are targeted at a specific audience for a monetary reason. I wish them the best but that is not my purpose at this time for my blog.

I thought it was kind of interesting the other day, when I was thinking about a comment my wife made to me. My wife had mentioned out of the blue, that if skate boards were out when I was a kid, I would have been a very good Skateboarder. I mentioned in reply, that I would have enjoyed it because fear does not enter in my life very often. My wife replied, “I know.”

Good or bad, everything you have read for the last months is what goes on in my head. If my writing was dragging, or moving fast, you have read my thoughts, and so many of you come back again and again! I am glad what I chose for the correct path for my blog, is something you too enjoy. I hope that you find something worth your time out of what I write, even if it is nothing more, than you mentioning to someone, that you wonder how I manage to get through each day writing what I write.

I am also grateful, that you are not grammar critics. I work full time, and all my typing tutor software has never helped me achieve anything above twenty words a minute. I have this odd three finger, two finger typing style with an occasional flurry of using all my fingers as I should. You have been kind enough to over look my odd wording, and my grammar errors – thank you for your patience.

What makes this a blog and not a personal diary, is you take the time to visit and read. Thank you for being you, and reading what I write! I hope at some level, my blog helps you in your life, even if that is only a laugh, or a how not to for your own life.

Thank you!