Some Knowledge

I was just out in the garden planting some cucumbers and squash.  The sun is hot today, though it may rain later.  I think today I am going to start a new writing project.  I have gotten enough practice from all the blogging in the last year so that I think I can write clearly.  Like anything else, a writing project takes time, and you have to work on it every day.  So far on this blog I have almost 600 posts.  That’s a lot of typing.  I need to work on something I can sell.

Anyway, I just wanted to post something here to make sure everything is working well.  One of these days I will get back to writing useful little articles.  Right now, I think I need to do some thinking.  Perhaps I will go read a book or something.

It’s been days since I’ve written anything for this blog.  I have been taking it easy on the typing.  It’s getting close to 600 posts here now, and this is my longest blog.  Lately, I have been playing games on my computer.  I spend hours running around chasing monsters.  One of these days I am going to make my own game world.  All I need to do is find millions of dollars somewhere and put together a team of game designers.  Shouldn’t be too hard.

It’s summer and there are summer things to do.  I have a garden to take care of, and all the odd jobs around the house.  I have spent a lot of time lately reading books from the library.  I just finished one about art auctions, and am almost done with another about eBay.  I am using the public library as a learning institution.  I read a cool book about computer game design a couple weeks ago.  I have probably saved over a thousand dollars already getting stuff from the library.  Why pay for something when you can get it for free?

I just thought I’d leave a post here to update what I have been doing lately.  One of these days I have to go through and read some of the things I have written.  This blog has over 80,000 page views now.  It’s hard to believe that many people have read what I wrote.  Anyway, I am just about to have some dinner, then maybe play games for a little while before watching TV.  This is my blog entry for today.  If anyone reads it I will be surprised.

I have not been posting here too often recently.  This morning I added three pictures of some of my paintings on my art blog.  I think for the time being I am going to concentrate on getting that blog set up and filled with images of my art work.

There is potential in art.  Even though the economy is rough, people still buy paintings and stuff to decorate their homes.  I have a bunch of stuff here that I have created over the years, and I like the idea of documenting it on a blog as an online portfolio.  Who knows, maybe someday galleries will consider submissions in an online format.  Who knows, maybe galleries are not necessary.  I am going to work on promoting my own work and see where that takes me.

So for now, if you want to see what I have been up to with blogging, check out the art blog linked in the blogroll.  I will try to add more work every day until I run out.  I may never run out, if I keep on producing work.  I will from time to time post more things here.  I need to learn how to focus on a project and also learn how to promote myself as a business.  Blogging is a great hobby.  Who knows, maybe some oil baron will like my work and make me rich.  A guy can dream at least.

I haven’t posted anything on this blog in over a week.  I’m just taking some time off to think about things and read some books.  I read an interesting interview yesterday with Matt from WordPress here in Inc. Magazine.  I like this blogging service.  I think it will be around for a lot of years.  I did not know that something like 3000 people make a living off WordPress.  Maybe I should not be so lazy.  There must be some way to cash in on all this functionality.

Anyway, I left a post here today so that’s about all I wanted to do right now.  I am thinking about starting a writing project again.  I am still interested in trying to write a book.  This blog is like one long crazy book.  I think they should have a feature on WordPress that counts up all the words you write to all your blog posts.  My best estimate for this blog is like a quarter million words.  That’s a lot of typing.  The letters on my keyboard are wearing out.  For a while I will continue to post infrequently.  Some day I will get back to posting endless random things here.