In case your wondering where the title quotation came from (and even if you're not), it's the first line in the Alan Parson's Project song "Games People Play" from their album The Turn of a Friendly Card (child of the mid to late 70's and early to mid 80's remember). :) As can be seen, I've altered the lyric slightly to suit my purposes, but I think it appropriately reflects my state of mind as I pound out this particular post.
Back on July 23rd (sheesh, has it really been roughly 4 1/2 months ago), I sat down at my computer and started this blog. One of the questions I asked in my initial post was: "What do I want to accomplish?" My first answer to this question was an expression of my desire to write about the summer vacation my family had recently finished and to provide some insights as to what it meant to me. I didn't think it would take until December to accomplish this goal, but, I didn't expect my oldest son to suffer a back injury either, so I'm not going to beat myself up over the length of time it has taken to write my first 20 posts. :) My next stated goal was to "write some things that are either important to me (the "general" part) or make random musings that might be funny at least to me [I crack myself up all the time when I'm writing--I'm the best audience I've ever had because I get all my obscure jokes] and possibly someone else (the "abstract" part)." I guess I now find myself at this particular junction.
Before and after I began my own blogging adventure, I have read blogs that are funny in their delivery; I have read blogs that are serious; others have been a general accounting of specific happenings of the writer's day or something about the writer's family; and some have been about a specific niche topic. It has come to my attention that blogs may be on their way out as a medium people pay attention to (if this is so, it would figure I'd start one at the time when they're becoming extinct). Be that as it may, this is where I've hitched my pony. When it comes to what I desire to write about from this point forward, I can only be true to myself and write about things that . . . shall I say "catch my fancy" at the time. There may be moments when some topic concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ is on my mind, so I'll write about it; or it could be a random thought about some goofy or serious thing going on in my life or the lives of the people around me; or maybe I'll find a piece of lint that looks like Elvis and I'll just have to share. I don't know exactly where my head will take me, but as long as I'm not using this as a forum for negativity, I'll allow my brain to take me in whatever direction it wants to go.
Another statement made in my first entry was that the "whys and the wherefores" behind my inspiration to start this blog were a mystery to me. I can now report . . . nothing has changed in that regard--I'm still as clueless about the reasons now as I was when I began. When I check the "all time stats" section of my blog, I find the first two "top traffic sources" seem to be spam website (a huge ego boost). Furthermore, there are 7 countries that also don't make a lick of sense to me (France and South Korea are exempt from this because I know the reason why they pop up). The stats also show I've received 845 total page views up to this point--681 "pings" have come from the United States. Other than the explanation that my family has gone completely nuts and is pinging me several times a day every day, I don't know how this has come to pass (to riff on an oft used Book of Mormon phrase). However, if there is a random someone who has stumbled across my musings and found what I have written to be of interest or helpful in understanding something about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or . . . whatever; then that's fine with me. I do feel it appropriate to say that I, in no way, am a official representative of the Church--just a guy trying to live the commandments of Christ to the best of my knowledge and ability. Any incorrect statement of doctrine is mine and mine alone. If someone has a proper and appropriate correction to offer when I misspeak (write; you get the picture), I'm all for it. Maybe this blog is for me; possibly it could be for someone else--I don't know. What I do know is that my answer to the title question of this post is: "Wherever the Spirit moves me." Your guess is as good as mine as far as what this answer means; but I hope it will be interesting to find out.
Back on July 23rd (sheesh, has it really been roughly 4 1/2 months ago), I sat down at my computer and started this blog. One of the questions I asked in my initial post was: "What do I want to accomplish?" My first answer to this question was an expression of my desire to write about the summer vacation my family had recently finished and to provide some insights as to what it meant to me. I didn't think it would take until December to accomplish this goal, but, I didn't expect my oldest son to suffer a back injury either, so I'm not going to beat myself up over the length of time it has taken to write my first 20 posts. :) My next stated goal was to "write some things that are either important to me (the "general" part) or make random musings that might be funny at least to me [I crack myself up all the time when I'm writing--I'm the best audience I've ever had because I get all my obscure jokes] and possibly someone else (the "abstract" part)." I guess I now find myself at this particular junction.
Before and after I began my own blogging adventure, I have read blogs that are funny in their delivery; I have read blogs that are serious; others have been a general accounting of specific happenings of the writer's day or something about the writer's family; and some have been about a specific niche topic. It has come to my attention that blogs may be on their way out as a medium people pay attention to (if this is so, it would figure I'd start one at the time when they're becoming extinct). Be that as it may, this is where I've hitched my pony. When it comes to what I desire to write about from this point forward, I can only be true to myself and write about things that . . . shall I say "catch my fancy" at the time. There may be moments when some topic concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ is on my mind, so I'll write about it; or it could be a random thought about some goofy or serious thing going on in my life or the lives of the people around me; or maybe I'll find a piece of lint that looks like Elvis and I'll just have to share. I don't know exactly where my head will take me, but as long as I'm not using this as a forum for negativity, I'll allow my brain to take me in whatever direction it wants to go.
Another statement made in my first entry was that the "whys and the wherefores" behind my inspiration to start this blog were a mystery to me. I can now report . . . nothing has changed in that regard--I'm still as clueless about the reasons now as I was when I began. When I check the "all time stats" section of my blog, I find the first two "top traffic sources" seem to be spam website (a huge ego boost). Furthermore, there are 7 countries that also don't make a lick of sense to me (France and South Korea are exempt from this because I know the reason why they pop up). The stats also show I've received 845 total page views up to this point--681 "pings" have come from the United States. Other than the explanation that my family has gone completely nuts and is pinging me several times a day every day, I don't know how this has come to pass (to riff on an oft used Book of Mormon phrase). However, if there is a random someone who has stumbled across my musings and found what I have written to be of interest or helpful in understanding something about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or . . . whatever; then that's fine with me. I do feel it appropriate to say that I, in no way, am a official representative of the Church--just a guy trying to live the commandments of Christ to the best of my knowledge and ability. Any incorrect statement of doctrine is mine and mine alone. If someone has a proper and appropriate correction to offer when I misspeak (write; you get the picture), I'm all for it. Maybe this blog is for me; possibly it could be for someone else--I don't know. What I do know is that my answer to the title question of this post is: "Wherever the Spirit moves me." Your guess is as good as mine as far as what this answer means; but I hope it will be interesting to find out.
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