Odds and Ends
It's been a banner week here, gals and gents. In the last couple weeks, I've decided to begin the effort to make the blog more visible, to focus more on the writing. On Tuesday, I had my highest traffic day ever. That was exceeded on Wednesday by a small margin.
In the grand scheme of things, it was still pretty small, but a start. Then, on Thursday night Betsy Newmark was kind enough to link to my piece on the Crawford Peace House, and that brought quite a few visitors here, setting another high water mark. Then, this morning, Hugh Hewitt, the godfather of all us bloggers, was kind enough to link to my piece that took a closer look at Michael Yon's tremendous Gates of Fire piece. That sent my hit counter spinning off its spindle. To both Betsy and Hugh, I say thank-you.
Update: Saturday eve. Michael Barone linked to my piece as well. Thank you, Mr. Barone. I have tremendous respect for your work, and I am grateful that you included me in your post.
Especially to those of you who have been stopping by, I say thank-you. I've met several intelligent, thoughtful people already. I know it takes time to find readers, for people to get in the habit of participating in yet another blog. But we'll keep 'er going.
One thing I do here is ask the Left to explain and defend its ideology. I think that's something lots of you are eager to do as well.
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I hope you'll forgive me for enabling the word verification when posting comments. I was starting to collect spam in the comments, and this should take care of most if not all of the automatic spambot kind of comments.
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I was already planning to do this, but more so after Yon's piece was up, on Monday I'll have another Dispatch from the Front, looking at the experience of combat.
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Given time commitments, it looks like my pattern might settle into blood, sweat and tears blogging during the week, and then pretty light over the weekend. School starts up for me in a couple weeks anyway. (School meaning the second year of a two-year masters program in software engineering.)
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Here's a fellow who has been around the blogging block! (via Outside the Beltway)
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Finally, with the focus this week on events, I haven't mentioned John and Hanna much.
The other day I heard John saying to his mom, "Nobody likes me". Oh man, if that just doesn't puree a parent's heart. I wasn't sure what exactly he meant. He hasn't been around a whole lot of kids this summer, aside from Sue's house. From time to time he plays with kids at Bunker Beach or something. I asked him about it, and he said he wanted to stay home. So, maybe that was his way of saying again social situations are stressful for him, and he likes the familiar security of his home.
Next Thursday morning we'll meet with the school district about what kind of help they can provide for his kindergarten experience.
With Hanna, the bad news is she put her fingers on a hot stove burner and singed them a bit. The good news is she put her fingers on a hot stove burner and singed them a bit. She's learned a valuable lesson and won't do that again. She didn't get burned too bad.
In the grand scheme of things, it was still pretty small, but a start. Then, on Thursday night Betsy Newmark was kind enough to link to my piece on the Crawford Peace House, and that brought quite a few visitors here, setting another high water mark. Then, this morning, Hugh Hewitt, the godfather of all us bloggers, was kind enough to link to my piece that took a closer look at Michael Yon's tremendous Gates of Fire piece. That sent my hit counter spinning off its spindle. To both Betsy and Hugh, I say thank-you.
Update: Saturday eve. Michael Barone linked to my piece as well. Thank you, Mr. Barone. I have tremendous respect for your work, and I am grateful that you included me in your post.
Especially to those of you who have been stopping by, I say thank-you. I've met several intelligent, thoughtful people already. I know it takes time to find readers, for people to get in the habit of participating in yet another blog. But we'll keep 'er going.
One thing I do here is ask the Left to explain and defend its ideology. I think that's something lots of you are eager to do as well.
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I hope you'll forgive me for enabling the word verification when posting comments. I was starting to collect spam in the comments, and this should take care of most if not all of the automatic spambot kind of comments.
--------
I was already planning to do this, but more so after Yon's piece was up, on Monday I'll have another Dispatch from the Front, looking at the experience of combat.
--------
Given time commitments, it looks like my pattern might settle into blood, sweat and tears blogging during the week, and then pretty light over the weekend. School starts up for me in a couple weeks anyway. (School meaning the second year of a two-year masters program in software engineering.)
--------
Here's a fellow who has been around the blogging block! (via Outside the Beltway)
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Finally, with the focus this week on events, I haven't mentioned John and Hanna much.
The other day I heard John saying to his mom, "Nobody likes me". Oh man, if that just doesn't puree a parent's heart. I wasn't sure what exactly he meant. He hasn't been around a whole lot of kids this summer, aside from Sue's house. From time to time he plays with kids at Bunker Beach or something. I asked him about it, and he said he wanted to stay home. So, maybe that was his way of saying again social situations are stressful for him, and he likes the familiar security of his home.
Next Thursday morning we'll meet with the school district about what kind of help they can provide for his kindergarten experience.
With Hanna, the bad news is she put her fingers on a hot stove burner and singed them a bit. The good news is she put her fingers on a hot stove burner and singed them a bit. She's learned a valuable lesson and won't do that again. She didn't get burned too bad.
2 Comments:
At Fri Aug 26, 09:54:00 PM, johngrif said…
You said, "One thing I do here is ask the Left to explain and defend its ideology. I think that's something lots of you are eager to do as well."
Agreed.
Stephen Vincent-- in whose debt all of us are-- penned these scathing thoughts:
"The Left. Hopeless. Shameful. History will record that the U.S. could have saved tremendous loss of life and treasure had we liberated Iraqi with more troops and a proper "after-victory" plan. But the chronicles will also show that America could have saved time, money and--most especially, lives--had the Left contributed its valuable resources to the liberation effort as well. Imagine if feminists, labor leaders, environmentalists, civil rights activists, artists and the media had joined in the struggle instead of sitting on the sidelines--or worse, assisting the fascists? Imagine if the clarion cry of freedom and democracy had arisen from a unified progressive front consisting of conservatives and liberals? Just as we've learned how much succor the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong took from the anti-war protesters of the 1960s, we will someday learn how the parochial, small-minded, narrow-souled opposition to the establishment of democracy in Iraq stiffen the fascist backbone of the "insurgency." But of course, the Michael Moores, Robert Fisks, George Galloways, Ted Kennedys and innumerable Hollywood celebrities and academics of this world will not care--they will always find reporters, voters, fans and tenure committees willing to dull the sting of conscience."
Though it cost him life, Stephen dedicated himself to unflinching views of the Iraqi conflict.
Visit those courageous observations at
http://spencepublishing.typepad.com/in_the_red_zone/
At Sat Aug 27, 12:06:00 PM, Jeff said…
Thanks for reminding me of Vincent's writings. He's had some good things to say. He won't have any more to share with us, because of that fascist backbone of the "insurgency."
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