Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 24101 – 1333
Greetings Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings, Fruitcakes, and Other Multitudinous and Diverse Wonders who visit here,
Here’s the haps:
I was visiting the blog of the ineffable Geoff Stamper, called Suicide Squeeze (A term for a type of play in American Baseball), and the first sentence of his most recent post, Unauthorized Marital Advice, was, “I have not posted for over seven weeks, mainly because nothing bad happens if I do not Blog.” I thought, “That’s a great opening line. I think I’ll steal it.” I stole a Killer Title from him one time, so why not?
Well, the why not is that it hasn’t been quite that long since my last post on Christmas day, but it has been 37 days. I was going to say I was trying to keep up with the Joneses but according to a well-researched post I read on J.P. Cavanaugh’s blog, Boomer No More (Or, Keeping Up With The Joneses), I am a part of Generation Jones and not a Baby Boomer as I once was. I couldn’t find a reason for the name Generation Jones other than we are, supposedly, Jonesing to be called Baby Boomers. It was an interesting post as most of his are.
Life is happening at a high rate of speed and I have just got too much going on to commit to anything other than being more professional in my crastination this year. Keeping up with four-year-olds and a one-year-old and sundry other assorted grandchildren. Learning more about the brain and nervous system than I ever thought existed, and trying to get diagnoses for Mrs. Herb, all add up, time-wise.
All this and much more brings me to the title I chose for this first post of the new year. You probably will see more meme and cartoon posts and not as many “serious” posts as I used to do, but I’m not quitting, just changing. I follow a lot of blogs, over fifty at the moment, but they don’t all update every day consistently, and a few are like Mr. Stamper, so it’s manageable for now. I just thought I’d better touch base with you all now rather than try a suicide squeeze.
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