A Blog about the Blog (and a colonoscopy)

The summer is almost over, which means the blog is about ready to dust off its mothballs and return to daylight. 

What can you expect when it returns? 

Absolutely nothing!  The key to satisfaction in life is low expectations.  If you want to be happy, just expect very little, and be thankful for whatever you get.  Usually, we get angry when our reality fails to meet our sense of entitlement. 

But this isn't a blog about abstract notions of satisfaction and fulfillment.  It's a blog about the blog. 

It will return next week, and there will be a post every week from that point forward.  If one fails to meet your expectations, then you can have your money back.  Just let me know, enclose a $5 handling fee, and I'll be glad to send you a full refund. 

If you do happen to enjoy reading this site, here's the deal: 

You probably need medical help.  But that is not my central point.

The blog has been growing over the past couple years, but not in a manner that is sustainable.  We're only getting a significant number of hits when I post a facebook link to a new blog post.  While I appreciate that my facebook friends are reading, we've kind of hit the limit with our growth potential that way.  If we're ever going to get enough monthly hits to pay the bills, we need hits beyond my limited number of facebook friends. 

So if you enjoy the blog, check back to this site itself every Tuesday, rather than waiting on seeing a facebook link on my page.  Tell your friends about this site, and post the blogs you particularly enjoy to your own page.  Email them to friends. 

I like doing this, but I need your help. 

Good times are ahead. 

You know what was behind?  My April colonoscopy. (In more ways than one.)  So to tide you over until next week, here's a recap of the what I endured last spring.  We'll recap the entire summer next week.  

http://andrewsmithsthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting.html

 

The Coming Return of the Blog

I'm in Memphis now, where in the last 36 hours, two rats have crossed my path, a one-toothed drifter asked me for money, and a waitress shrieked out loud when I told her the name of a defendant on my prosecutorial caseload. 

Sounds about right. 

By this time next week, I'll be back home and ready to blog again.  It's been an eventful summer, and I can't wait to tell you all about it. 

So let's set a date for next Tuesday, when a recap of the crazy, difficult, but somehow strangely entertaining summer of 2012 will signal the return of Just Thinking. 

I'll see you then.