No Blog is an Island
On this day, one in which many of us thank our mothers for their efforts, Me has pondered upon another thought.
It be starting with a compliment from a fellow blogger.
As Me considered his words Me be thinking that this thing we do called blogging be so closely related to the way in which we ought to live our lives in the everyday world, but often don't.
This week me were wrestling with a problem about me blog.
Nothing deep Me just wanted a dropdown window for links to you guys like the one that Me be having for me archives.
Simple, right?
Wrong! At least not for the likes of a dopey Monster.
Blogger doesn't provide the code for what me needed, So Me asked Cap'n Grunt and he gave me one piece of the puzzle. Then another blogger gave me the rest. VOILA! Me be having a new dropdown window. Check it out, it's totally cool! After all the work Me found a simpler way to do it all from Hackosphere he be creating a widget for you so you don't have to mess around with code.
Here be the point of me babbling- We need each other. It be the folks that gather around us that make sense of all of our blatherings. The comments that are left on posts are not merely words, jibes or compliments. They be the spark of life. Validation
The people that be visiting are as important as house guests we let through our doors, but here the doors are open, much like a Passover Seder.
Me likes having stomping buddy's eventhough Me don't get the chance to visit everyone, everyday.
Now me be updating me list and iffin me forgot to add you don't be shy, gimme a shout an the situation will be straightened out.
STOMPS.
We no be alone here.
23 comments:
I consider the people I blog with to be friends. Other people think I am crazy, because I worry about when one of you is hurt or family troubles and I am happy when there is a sucess in life.
I consider you one of my stomping buddies!
You're exactly right, Scary mon. We DO need each other. I've come to think of the blogosphere as a sort of extended family. Like bardouble29, I consider my fellow bloggers friends. There are those who do think that's crazy. They, however, don't blog.
The new pull-down looks great.
STOMP!
yup.
B-)
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Kewwwwl. Can I have the code too? I like the pull down idea - maybe then I'd update my blog links!
Scary baby, I agree about the blog sphere. Sometimes its what keeps me going through a rough patch :)
xx
pinks
I'm with you on that scary. I consider my fellow bloggers friends as well. I'm never alone with you all out there..
HUGS! and STOMPS!!
Me with you guys on this, but me wonders why we can be so tight with those who come to visit us through this medium, yet not give a flip about people we work with day in day out. At least that be Me problem.
STOMP.
P.S. The link to the menu generator is on the blog, Pinky.
I like to pretend that everyone else on the internet is actually in Nigeria and they just want to take my money.
Maybe part of the reason for the dichotomy is that when the people we see day in and day out see us at our worst during a bad time, they tend to run the other way. Online buddies don't really see us at our worst. We might hint at the demons we're wrestling with, and blogging buddies tend to be supportive and offer constructive criticism and/or advice. I know I tell online friends things I never, ever tell the people I actually see day in and day out.
tfg~ If me actually had any money me would be worried.
SJ~ always the voice of reason. Good point.
STOMP
What about the opposite scenario: where you think you've made some buddies in the blogosphere, and then suddenly they drop you and stop commenting on your blog or acknowledging your comments on theirs. Do you ever get hurt and wonder what you did wrong, or what you said that pissed them off or turned them away?
llb~ Nah, me figures that many people be in a similar situation and can't comment cuz they ain't got enough time.
Me don't always reply to comments and it takes an awful long time for me to make me rounds and give other bloggers the time they deserve.
Occasionally me be dissapointed by those who only give me stuff a cursory look and comment on something completely off the subject.
Bottom line for me both in the real world and the blogworld is that people come and people go and if ya like me and stick around, that's fine, but iffin ya don't that's ok with me too.
STOMP>
Testing a renewed toy
Sorry D Me be foolin a round here and accidentally deleted you.
STUMP.
ごめん。
Scary baby,
Some of the people I work with every day really annoy me.
I think we only get to see a bits of our blog buddies - usually the best bits...its like we're all on a first date putting our best foot forward.
nobody in blogland can see my messy, tilted house or my big bum. they only get to read my words and imagine for themselves who i am.
easy to like what you project from your own mind.
that be my humble opinion, scary babe.
stompie stomp,
pinks
We are indeed all nice to each other here, why wouldn't we be?
Maybe the challenge lies in taking the kindness and calmness that is found here with us into the 'real' world out there.
Don't get me wrong here, you people are of course also very real (although tfg has a suspicious resemblance with a robot).
Hmmm, this looks a lot like the explanation i got in taichi-class about taking the mental strength obtained trough martial arts into the everyday world.
sweet
Pinks~ Me believes you got it right. Even when were bad, were good; or at least funny.
Paul~ Paul for me it's Aikido and somewhat similar thinking about going with the flow instead of meeting it head on.
stomp
Thank you Scary, for the reminder that I need to install 2-screen doors and have the locks changed.
Scary, that is so cool. ANd thanks for adding me!
TFG and Pug- TOO TOO FUNNY!
Serena Joy - I think you are right. I can tell my online buddies things that are too painful for me to speak out loud. I don't know why that is. Then they step right up to the plate and and even think of funny things to say. Plus I worked all my adult life. My disability was abrupt and isolating. It took me a while to find a "new crew" to roam around "the office" with.
I am a good helper.
Pug~ Umm...Stomp?
CD~ No problem!
Grunt~ More than good, Cap'n. The best!
The Top Ten Reasons We Like Our Blog Buddies Better:
10. We actually have something in common.
9. We don't have to put up with each other eight solid hours a day.
8. We're usually not stressed when we see them.
7. We get to sit around in our pajamas while we talk to them.
6. They never owe us money.
5. They never ask us to babysit.
4. We only see them when we have time, and when we have time, they're still there.
3. Our sexual innuendo never feels icky.
2. They are people we would never get to meet in the real world.
and the #1 reason we like our blog buddies better:
They never interrupt us when we're talking.
SM~ Nice, aikido. Indeed, don't try to absorb (any kind of) attacks head on, make them miss you and possibly even hurt themselves on the way :)
SW~ Very nice, just spent 5 minutes to find a few others, but nothing that beat's your list :)
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