I want to be like Dooce

Greetings and hallucinations!

Yes indeed folks…he lives, he thrives (sort of ) and for that he is eternally grateful. The hair continues to abandon ship with alarming frequency, kind of like Republican legislators distancing themselves from the administration as the mid term elections approach.

I have no excuses; my muse has been on sabbatical and my web project (www.rivervoices.net) has consumed more than it’s fair share of time. Especially in the last couple of weeks as I have been informed that my hosting company www.godaddy.com has decided to stop supporting the software I have been using to build the site. In light of their nefarious plots against my sanity, I’ve been thrashing around looking for an alternative that I can afford and that can give me the look that I want. I am going to have to go back and redo everything I have done so far and my seat of the pants ‘guesstimate’ is that I have a couple of hundred hours of rebuilding on my horizon. If you google on “unhappy camper” you may well see my picture appear on your screen.

On a cheerier note, one of my favorite bloggers had a terrific feature article published about her in the Salt Lake City Tribune last week. Here is the link to it and to her blog:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4492586 and http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily_photo/10_25_2006.html

Heather is a remarkable and driven lady. She is surpassingly funny in both her writing and her photography. Her blog generates between 800,000 and 1,000,000 hits per month. I should live so long as to reach those numbers. Now fair warning…her language is sometimes adult in nature but it is never gratuitously so. It’s all in context. Go read her stuff but beware…don’t ingest any carbonated beverages while reading it. Your keyboard and nasal passages will not love you anymore.  Might want to forego that Oreo cookie as well. If you think carbonation is uncomfortable imagine cookie shrapnel!!!

Also this will be the last e-mail notification I send about blog postings. I have added a subscription link called “Feedblitz” which is fairly easy to set up or you can simply bookmark the site and check it when the spirit moves you. The subscription link is at the top of the leftmost column. You can also pick up the feed of the blog by going to Bloglines and signing up there.

Finally, I am aware that the banner picture has disappeared and I am on the trail of that.

Thanks for reading and tell a friend...or an enemy if you think this blog sucks...maybe your enemy has more patience than you do.