Random thoughts running through my head, not necessarily good ones…

• Bananas should be opened from the bottom not from the top where it attaches to other bananas.  See this! I tried it and it works.
• Hollywood ran out of ideas long before the current crop of movies.  Just look at some of the movies that were made in the early days of film.  Some movies were “re-imaged” and “rebooted” within months of each other.
• Water is wet people!  I know this is a shock to some of you, but yes, you get wet when you get hit with water.  Another news flash, rain is water. Don’t even ask why I mention this.
• Cats are like some people when it comes to the wetness of water.  No matter how many times you stick your paw in the water, it will still be wet.
• Whoever thought of putting laptop hard drives in cases and selling them as portable storage devices was a genius.  Dude, you don’t know how much I appreciate them.  Those and the portable flash drives.
• How does John know I am on Facebook?  And which John is it?  Or is it a generic John that cruises for prostitutes?
• “Work is hard.”  No kidding, if it was easy it wouldn’t be called work now would it.  Same goes for homework.

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I received an email (I was so excited someone actually read my blog and wasn’t a spam bot) asking me about my blogging history.  Blogging history?  I had to send a reply to exactly explain to me what she (yes, it was a she which means girls do exist) meant by “blogging history” (yes, I’m doing the “fingers” quotation “movement” as I “type” this) and she replied that I was an idiot and should stop stalking her… uhm, that she wanted to know a timeline of when and what about my blogging, like when I started, how I started, what phases the blog went through, if I was wearing pants at anytime I was blogging, that sort of thing.  I was going to the story of stone soup today, but I guess I will do a LIST!

The history of Yoggie blogging…

• Mid 1997 – buckled down and created a website.  Nothing much there as I copied most of the elements from other people’s website, though I used my own design.  Included on the front page of the site was a thing I called “Site News” that I updated on what was happening with the site.  This a plain HTML page that was updated maybe every 20 days or so, primarily about the site itself with some clever (at least I thought so) anecdotes included.
• End of 1997 – “Site News” morphed into “What’s New” becoming a server-side include text file that was easier to update, and the content became more of a journal.
• May 1998 – “What’s New” and the web site news separated into two distinct entities and old “What’s New” entries went into an archive page. Pretty much was updating the information every couple of days.
• June 1999 – found this wonderful software that allowed you to install and update a weblog on your site.  It was still all HTML but it used templates and had a built in archive system.  All you had to do was type in your blog entry in the software and it rebuilt your entire index page and added archive HTML pages. Beat doing it by hand.  At this point I was posting just about everyday except on weekends and holidays.
• Late 2000 – started playing around with Java, Javascript, PHP, and MySQL to come up with some way of making it easier to post blog entries.  Was not aware of the work being done in Movable Type and other blogging software.  Never got very far with it.
• Early 2001 – I was invited to share my blog hosted by another person so I started blogging using more sophisticated server-based blogging software.
• January 3, 2003 – I started blogging with a sub-domain of a dear friend who decided to share some server space to host my blog.
• Mid 2004 – I felt bad about smooching on my friends so I bought my own web hosting plan and set up my blog there with Movable Type.  This was the point I lost everything prior to January 3, 2003 (always do backups).  I was at this time blogging one to five times a DAY EVERYDAY.  This was also back when I had a list of blogs I checked daily, had lots of fellow bloggers on my blogroll, and was up to a B-list blogger with A-list bloggers consistently leaving comments.
• Late 2006 – decided that the name of my blog “A Lackluster Blog” was too mundane (and there were other blogs using similar names) and went for the less descriptive “The Mighty Yog Blog”  and picked up the domain name yogblog.com and .net (funny, when I picked the name, no one was using Yog, now there are hundreds of them).  This is caused a bit of a problem and I ended up loosing my contacts because the person that picked up my previous domain name ruined my reputation.  This was also the time I switched to WordPress.
• February 2007 to mid 2008 – I got into such a funk that I was blogging less and less, sometimes going weeks with no entries.  That kind of thing kills you readership and your rating in the blogosphere.
• Mid 2008 to present – I climbed back on the horse and forced myself to start blogging again.  Currently up to blogging once or twice a day and looking into getting myself back in the limelight of the blogging ranks. 

Yes, I was one of those early bloggers, one of the dinosaurs.  Not like Justin Hall, who was the pre-life ooze that spawn us bloggers back in 1994, but I pretty close to the original source.

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It is list daaaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!  (Yes, I just made it up.)

• Sometimes I wonder just who is deciding what will be on the news.  Is there some supercomputer sitting in a frozen warehouse crunching up numbers, statistics, and probabilities or is it some guy with a dart board and too many martinis.
• Why when you see one ant on you that you suddenly feel like there are thousands of ants on you when you know there isn’t?  Do ants have some sort of mind control that they used to protect themselves from giants like us that convinces us that we are wearing ant coats?
• When it gets dusty in space (and it does so quite often) do you use a vacuum cleaner?
• Who decided that yellow paint on the curb would mean no parking?  Why not orange or pink? Was the paint store having a sell on yellow paint that day?
• Why is the glass half full or half empty and not the glass being too tall?
• Why in Star Trek: The Next Generation does no one listen to heavy metal?  What happened to the punk rockers and the spiked hair?  I mean, the most contemporary music we hear is jazz played by Riker.
• Another thing about Star Trek, why has no one thought to transport (through the transporter no less) a bomb into the enemy’s engine room.  My strategy would be to weaken a part of the shields enough to transport a photon torpedo near a power conduit or inside the engine.  One boom and the ship is either destroyed or incapacitated. (That bothered me the whole Kazon story line during Voyager when the Kazon supposedly did not have strong shielding technology.)
• What possesses me to come up with these lists?  Why does possesses have so many s’s?

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What a crap-static this day has been.  Let us go to the list feature of the site..

• First I get up late.  This is not normally a problem, but my daughter start a new school term today.
• I forgot to go to the grocery store this weekend, so my daughter will not have a likable lunch.
• My daughter left all of her books and papers at my mother-in-law’s house so we have to rush to get there.
• My daughter left her copy of he schedule at home thinking that the other copy is in our car.  I took it out on Friday so I could make a copy of it. 
• Called the school to apologize for my daughter not having her schedule and not getting anyone.
• I haven’t even gotten to work yet.
• Yep, late for work to find that NO ONE IS THERE!
• Log on to the network to find the network is down.
• Network is back up, but my computer froze and refused to even hard boot. Had to unplug the sucker.
• Need I continue?  Okay, all the networks being down mean nothing was updated.  Luckily, we have an update that was run since important data changed.
• The database environment I need to work in is down because the backup was corrupted.
• Finally, after lunch I can get to work.  Finally got in touch with a person and not an answering machine to verify everything is okay at my daughter’s school.
• Went to get gas and there is no money on the gas card.

I finally just gave up the day as a loss when I got home.

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