For those of you who have been with me through my blogging career (all two of them), you will know that I was encouraged or coerced (fine line between the two) into writing blogs. They both write their own blogs and both have been doing so longer than I have. We started a friendly sibling rivalry to see who could get the most followers of their blog (if you have not noticed, there is a link you can click to the right to follow my blog).
Well the first thing that happens when you start doing these blogs is that you are constantly trying to think of topics that others might want to read. Well I am at a slight disadvantage here as my older sister is currently doing a huge kitchen remodel and there is a lot material that comes from that by itself, but throw in two workers getting in a fight last week with one wielding a sledge hammer and the other swinging an ax like he is Paul Bunyan and you have blogging gold. My younger sister has twin 3-year-old boys and they are in a state of constant movement, adventure, learning (good and bad) and thus she has endless material to choose from and gets the “cute” factor of kid stories.
As has been established in my first blog, I have no life. I have heard that admitting it is the first step on the road to recovery, but this road does not seem to show up in my navigation system. Regardless, I took the challenge of trying to garner followers (that’s for you Ray), which you can conveniently follow me by clicking just up and to the right. I just assumed though that there was some blog law or blogging integrity that would preclude folks from shamelessly asking folks to follow them to drive up the traffic, but low and behold both of my sisters have done this. Yes, I was shocked as well.
My older sister not only asked her husband to post her blogging site on his Facebook page for folks to click on, which by the way you can just put your email above to get notified on mine, but she also admitted to saying the first eleven followers where herself. Seriously?? How do you get away with that? This is not some government social program where you can just claim individuals for your own selfish gains. My younger sister was less covert on her actions. She just emailed folks asking them to follow her. I would never have the audacity to email individuals to ask them to follow me by clicking on the link above. I will win this friendly contest fair and square and not rely and those types of tactics.
Dear Mr. Man,
ReplyDeleteFirst off, you need to have a mo' betta' title for your blog if you want to attract strays. I think "dear Mr. Man" or "Ask Mr. Man" are both good names. I certainly would be curious to read a sample of a blog site from someone with such an official title. Second, you do have lots of material, you just need to be more alert to your surroundings. Remember the "don't look now" game? (don't look now but I see Don Zimmer and Al Pacino standing in line for the Southwest flight to Boise) endless hours of fun in the airport. I am sure that there are many stories you can tell about what lead up to the need for your chick diet (in more detail) AND your everyday work life (but be careful as to not be un-PC). Gotta go - "cribs" is at the door wanting to checkout my bachelor's pad.
D-LUX [out]