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Thank You Around The World

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serviceThis blog has helped make me feel like a citizen of the world in many ways. Having people visiting from all over the world is something that fills me with awe. I read a number of blogs and I normally do not spend a lot of time wondering where the blog originates. Maybe I would be surprised if I knew where some of the blogs I read are from.

This list may not describe where you are exactly, but it is as precise as the company that I pay to host my blog chooses to be. If you are not from one of the places listed, drop me an email of where you are, and I will either edit this post with your country, or place it as a comment.

This is my big thank you no matter where you live, taking the time to read what I write, and learning what I enjoy and think. Thank you for returning too.

In the order my web host lists visitors:

US Commercial (.com), Network (.net), Unresolved/unknown, US Educational (.edu), Turkey, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Old Style Arpanet (arpa), Canada, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, Russian Federation, Australia, India, Ukraine, Mexico, Singapore, Finland, New Zealand (Aotearoa), US Military, Hungary, Lithuania, Seychelles.

This is quite a list! I am always surprised with how many people know English as a second language. There are so many of you who are way ahead of my language learning ability. I have a tough time with English as a first language, speak Spanish like a two year old on a bad hair day, and can carry on very simple written conversations in one or two languages from Europe.

Beyond that, I do not seem to have an ear for languages other than listening to the music in them. For musical Languages, Farsi is the prettiest language I have heard. No idea what is said, but the way the language flows is pretty.

I know like me, your time is important, so once again I want to say thank you for stopping by, and thank you for hanging around. I write what I write because I went a long time fighting with my life, and learned how to be happier.

I hope what I write helps everyone enjoy their life more with less pain in the process. When I think of all the people like you from all over the world reading my blog, I am humbled. My grammar and wording is not all it could be, so I know you are not here to learn good English grammar skills but rather because I offer something that helps you in some way.

For the last time for now, thank you again for taking time to stop by. Blogging my thoughts is one way for me to do some small thing for others. Big thing happen in small steps.

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Thank you for reading!

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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!

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Only the best Christmas for you!

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It is soon to be Christmas, so my blogging may be a little erratic over the next few days. I have really enjoyed blogging this far (all two months, lol), and I hope it continues. One of the neatest things that has come out of blogging is I have read more blogs in the last few weeks than I have read since blogging started. Some of them very good, and well thought out. If I have read your blog, I want you to know I am happy to have had the opportunity, it is like having Christmas early. Most of you are amazing people judging by your blogs.!

Some of you are also very good writers. A few of you very good writers have taken the time to visit my blog, and have left comments. I hope it never gets to be ‘old hat’ for me, both the blogging, and the comments you leave. I don’t see that happening, at least not getting excited when someone takes the time to say something about my blog – hopefully positive. Thank you for your comments, they are very much appreciated!

I have seen my share of Christmases over the years, some good, and some not so good. Fortunately for us, our minds tends to smooth out the bad things, and make the good things better in our memories.

The first year I understood the concept of Santa Claus, was the same year a teenage neighbor across the street was given a Vespa scooter by his folks. I told Santa in secret that was what I wanted, and the only thing I wanted. I told Santa he could put it in the garage cum barn. I was not a happy little boy when Christmas rolled around, and there was no Vespa for me. Never mind, I must have been all of three or four.

I remember a few really great Christmases too. What made them great was the winter weather would be nice that day, along with my folks, and most of my cousins at my aunt and uncles house for Christmas dinner. Us kids would be told to go outside for the afternoon. There was playing in the snow at first, but as we grew older, there was sledding and miracle of miracles, a snow mobile! Then there was the trip to the other cousin’s for a night of playing and fun, and food! Those were great times when I was a child.

I remember one year, when the celebrating started early with my folks. We were driving out to another aunt and uncles house, and my Dad decided some poor kid all alone in a gate shack at the Air Base on the way would be happier if he stopped and offered him a drink, and a Merry Christmas. The Airman didn’t know whether to be thankful, or arrest, and possibly shoot us. Luckily for us, he realized my Dad’s intentions were good and let us go without incident.

When I grew up there were the Christmases with kids. The first belonged to a cousin I shared a house with. The second year, I could not wait for the kids to go to bed, so she would take out the kids’ presents to be put together. We would put them together and play with them most of the night! It was so much fun at the time. It was like the clock turned back during the night and we were kids again too for a few hours. It was better with my own children, and I miss those times.

I can’t say why, but this is the first Christmas in years where I am really enjoying the excitement of Christmas. It is also another year, when I can say almost everything I would want for Christmas has happened over the last year. Great memories, and good times, what more could I possibly want. Well there are always those toys I can’t afford, but that is a different matter…

As you read this, I want you to know I hope you feel content, and complete this Christmas too. I hope all of life’s joys either have come into your life, or they are on their way in a few days.
If you aren’t quite there yet, hang on! There are a lot of special gifts life is sending your way. Life’s postman is stuck somewhere in the snow is all. Merry Christmas!

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