First, you start blogging and convince yourself that you don’t know what you’re doing and you begin to ask questions like, “What does HTML stand for?”
Then, you start checking your stats and visiting all the people who visited you and sign up for Technorati and wonder things like, “I really do wonder how much my blog is worth!”
Finally, you figure out who you like to read and link them and use terms like “blog-walk” and find conferences like BlogHer and your husband threatens you with, “I swear, if you start in with Star Trek conventions and give the Spock sign I WILL HAVE YOU COMMITTED.”
Ultimately, you consider meeting up with other bloggers who are in your general area and some who are flying in for the week and then inviting others to meet you and then say aloud, “Have I finally gone totally nutters?”
And then a voice from behind you that belongs to your husband utters, “I’ve been waiting for you to ask me that. YES.”
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Let’s see… HTML, check… site meter, Technorati, blogshares, check, check, check…BlogHer tickets, check… Lumpyhead’s Mom, Mommy at Work, check, check.
Hmmm.
“Hey Gabe, Am I nutters?”
Oh golly. I’m in trouble. I was nodding my head the whole time.
But at least Kennimus doesn’t tell people that his wife joined a cult of LOGGERS!
I bet my husbands friends think I’m a flippin’ lumberjack.
I mean, I live in Wisconsin so it’s possible, but I can’t lift weights let alone participate in logging activities. Well, unless maybe it’s logging into the computer!
Oh. My. Goodness! I got on to your site! I got on through opening Internet Explorer. I can’t wait to start reading and catching up!
Here’s my value… $40,082.34. Any buyers? Cash and certified checks only, thank you very much.
Wait, and the problem again is….???
Hugs,
Those damn husbands and their “witty” observations. Dorks. They are just jealous.
I’m not up to that level yet, but who says I won’t be some day???
Hugs,
Cordaville
I may not know much when it comes to blogging, but I’ve read enough of your entries about Ken to at least guess the meaning of HTML. Is it “He Teases Mocha Laughingly”?
Oh your family is beautiful. Thanks for posting the photos I really enjoyed them.
May the force be with you! Uh-oh, wrong geek channel. I’m with ya–the blogosphere becomes positively addictive. In a yummy caffienated way!
Hi Kelly, Just stopping in to say ‘Hello’. Visiting the library, so I thought I’d check out Blogville. Two spaces, wow. I had a hard time maintaining one, never mind two. I hope all is well with you and your family. I’m still jobless. Drop me an e-mail if you ever have a free moment between sips of coffee. Take care.
HTML? Java? Borland C, C+, C++? Perl? Python? Linux? Technorati? Blogroll? Meeting other bloggers to ride bike with them? Running a blog mirrored on 2 different servers? Search my screen nick and get 457 pages of Google hits……and they are all you? Oh God, I am a blogging bicycle geek!
Make that all me!
Hey Mocha,
I have completely embraces my blog geekness. Don’t fight it! Let it take you over… oh who am I kidding.. you have about 3 blogs going at once and have actually bought your domain name… that’s even beyond me… YES! I am jealous. I’d do it to but I just don’t have the smarts for it!
I love that we’ve all made special connections in blog land. I know some people look at this as a continent pick up place where you can show up in your sponge bob undies, voke bottle glasses, hair in a bun held up with 2 pencils, Pringles in one hand and the mouse in the other… but in all honesty I’ve made some of the bestest friends on here.
Take Heather for example… I was in the hospital over Christmas and when my emails stopped coming after the Nip Tuck episodes like they used too she knew something was wrong. I can miss anything but not a free chance to dish on the latest Nip Tuck episode.
When I had the chance I emailed her and told her I was in the hospital and missed the last 3 episodes of Nip Tuck including the season finale to end all season finales. A serial killer that started his killing 3 years prior was FINALLY revealed and I missed it because I was in the hospital with tubes in all my orifices. Life sucked BIG!
Then I got THE email… you know the one where someone from blogland asks for your home address. I never had any reason to think Heather would do anything horrible with it but there’s always that voice in the back of your head that says… are you sure this isn’t a 50 year old serial killer that actually lives down the street?
Well I gave her the address and when I got home from the hospital I had a Video Tape in the mail with the last 3 episodes of Nip Tuck. I was soo touched… I can’t even tell you how much.
And then there’s Kristen who after reading my “spoons” entry, an essay I found online that REALLY explains what it’s like living with a chronic disease sent me a beautiful necklace with a silver little spoon.
And the numerous cards and well wishes from all my blog friends… AND as if that weren’t enough my blog friends have all helped in raising over $1000 for Crohn’s and Colitis Research in my name.
You can tell your husband all of that and then I dare him to say these connections aren’t real?
And I don’t own spock ears, or watch Star Trek for that matter.
Mt
Kelly, Due to me having NO IDEA what anything you said is about, I will nod politely and try NOT to agree with Ken
I got link, blog and site meter. The rest is way beyond my “sponge bob undies, Coke bottle glasses, hair in a bun held up with 2 pencils, Pringles in one hand and the mouse in the other” capabilities. PMSL Good one MT
I am once again convinced that I am under surveillance. And wonder who else has seen me in my sponge bob undies?????
Love Yvonne
P.S Tell Ken is you start humming ANY Star Trek theme, call me, I’ll come spank it out of you!
I’m closer to Yvonne than you, but I’ve been toying with the idea of a technorati profile–mabye I’m just half geek?
KM
I’m with you, all the way. Well, except for going to BlogHer. Sadly, I can’t afford to go. My husband has even started a blog. At first he hated blogging, but now he’s actually starting to like it and reading HTML and CSS books in his spare time. Yes! Another initiate into the cult of blogging!
*grin*
Hey there!!!! Nice place here. I read your session on the other blog. What a jerk dot dot is. I hate when people do that. I had my Adrian. Don’t know if you read about Adrian last week, but Adrian has now become a household noun among my friends. “Oh, that person is just an Adrian.” I wanted to go to blogher too, but the bar got in the way. Maybe next year.
Oh yes, and my mother gave me an itemized list of how much I had cost her. She had kept track since I was a child, and she left a note at the bottom stating the amount of interest and how I can start paying her back now. My mother has invested well over 3 million dollars in me at age 25.
I’ve wondered about HTML and that other stuff but haven’t delved into the world of technical know-how (yet). My nieces and nephews tease me unmercifully for becoming a blogging geek. They never thought I would get into computer stuff beyond e-mail and Word (for work).
Gotta go. Gotta read up on that Technorati thang – sounds interesting!!!
OMG – had to share this since we also talk Java here… no pun intended
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/12/31friedman.html
Hugs,
Now just wait until you also become a big photo geek with your new fancy camera.
Glad you didn’t let the fear of potentially being kidnapped by a bunch of blogger freaks deter you from coming yesterday – it was great to meet you!
I’ll be back…
Wait, are you meeting Dave from Blogography?? Get. OUT!!!!
I am so jealous! If he draws you a personalized cartoon I will turn positively green with envy!
Thanks for the nice blog comment. Yes, it’s a miracle Kaitlyn has any skin left on her cheeks, her neck, her toes for all the nibbling and nuzzling I do. This weekend I just about covered her face in butter like a dinner roll because she was being so cute!
I am such a blogging geek. I’ve actually built my first template this weekend. It looks like crap, but it’s my creation. I promise not to change right now, but I will eventually. I’m not sure if there is anything left in blogland that could be added to a blog that I haven’t seen. I’m so addicted.
I think I’ll echo the comments Von made except for the sponge bob underwear! Though my mind is boggling with such an image of Von! LOL.
I shall sit back and wait, cause no doubt one so up to date in the blog world will surely be a tutor in the field soon, I can just see it now Mocha’s links to explaining gobbledygook!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who would consider this and some of you (Sarah, Queen…I’m talking to YOU) will meet me next month as well.
I’d love to comment to everyone (I gotta stop doing that!) but it’s the last week of school and BUSY is my first name right now.
Elizabeth, not only did Dave draw me a cartoon, but a whole notebook filled one with himself, Bad Monkey, and Mocha with a cuppa. Ok. I’m teasing you. He didn’t draw me anything.
Yet.
Some time back in DC there was a prostitute named Teresa Howell who worked as Summer Breeze. She died in 2003 and the coroner said it was because she was drunk and fell down her stairs.
John Berlau, a hack journalist with Reason and Insight got fascinated with this and for all anyone knows maybe he had already been fascinated with her, hard to say at this point in time.
He did his own investigation of a sort. He went after people who knew her and posted on various prostitution related web sites. I don’t know where this got him but it may have been the beginning of his association with the so called sex trade.
He’s worked with the police at least once and maybe more. He did this in the DC area. He helped set up both prostitutes and their customers. When you got busted if you would work with John on some book or project he is doing, they’d let you go. But, the rest were arrested.
So this is just some friendly advice and stay away from anything that seems to be tied up to this guy Berlau or any of a number of conservative projects. Some of them are REASON magazine and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. At least once he’s worked with a woman posing as a prostitute. Two likely ones are Solveig Singleton and Julie DeFalco, both at CEI right now. But both are brunettes and the rumor is that the woman was a blond but that’s what wigs are for I suppose!
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