Grugger’s Way

I know some people don’t like the term “older folks,” but it beats the heck out of “the elderly” or even “the aged.”

But this blog post is about blogging for “folks” like me and maybe like you: Over 50 or over 55 or somewhere above that (like me).

I started my first blog just one year ago, on January 19, 2008.  Interestingly enough, in looking at that first post, I talked about my WEIGHT, the entry was entitled, Weighty issue .

I could be writing that very same post today, because nothing much has changed in the past year.  My weight has been up and down some, 5 to 10 pounds, but today I am right where I was a year ago, needing to lose 6 or 7 pounds so I can fit into a decent pair of dress pants to attend my wife’s business Christmas party.  It’s always about the third week in January, after everyone else’s big “to do’s” are over with.

I’m going to be overweight, so I am accepting that.  I don’t look really bad; I just can’t fasten the pants.  I had a colonoscopy on Christmas Eve and I thought maybe the “preparations” for that would help me lose 5 or 6 pounds, but it really doesn’t work that way.  A guy has to eat.

My Blogging has been up and down this year too, with too many blogs, trying to do too many things, writing about too many subjects, trying to figure out how to make some money for all the TIME that it takes.   I’m not making much money.  Advertising clicks are few and far between.  Lots of “views” but very few “clicks.”  A blogger needs clicks on the Google Ads to make any money at all.  I joined up with a social networking site for bloggers called EntreCard, and that has resulted in quite a lot of visitors to the blogs, but many visitors just check out my most recent posting and then move on.  (no clicks on ads, ha ha)

They say there are over 77 MILLION blogs world-wide.  I don’t know about that; the number is so crazy high that I could not begin to comprehend what all those people write about!  EntreCard has over 40,000 blogs.  That is quite a lot for me to consider visiting.  Obviously, I will not visit 40 thousand blogs.  I visit the ones who visit me.  Visitors “drop” by clicking on the EntreCard widget, and that shows up in my account.  Most of the readers of this blog already know this.  Maybe my Mom doesn’t. She is my most reliable and unfailing reader.  I love you, Mom.  Now we need to get you blogging too!!

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