Creative Endeavors

Sixty-Days and counting.

In March of this year, I first arrived at WordPress.com and began to post on this page. This was on or around the 12th of the month, some posts go back to the first, but that is because I post dated them when I put them up.

Born out of necessity, I was posting over on another site, a highschool alumni site on MyFamily.com but as I am rather prolific the site was often chocked full of my stuff, and no one else was posting, so I brought it over here. During this sixty day period it has been my pleasure to share with you all the quirky things in this world that often drive me to the brink of insanity.

To open the windows of my life and allow a little fresh air to come into my world. As I call it “blowing the cobwebs” out of my mind. Which at times is often a definte new walk down the path of life. The good and the bad, the real and unreal, a little bit of each can be found within the confines of this webpage/site thing.

You have been faithful to it, and it has grown, and that is not only refreshing, but at the same time, encouraging. Thank you. It has been my distinct pleasure to sit here and watch all the little red dots appear on the site map and I would be lying if I didn’t admit that it gives me a litle warm fuzzy when it appears at a new location each day.

I know that sounds kind of strange, but it does.

Kind of strange when a sixty year old guy gets a charge out of such a small thing. But then again, at my age, it has been so long since I did have a charge, I have forgotten where to hook up the jumper cables! We are now being read in over 26 locations across the Nation, Hawaii, a couple in South America, Iceland, the U.K, Eastern & Western Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa, Portugal and the list goes on and on.

This has been sort akin to watching a small baby, stand up and walk for the first time, an interesting and rewarding journey. Most everyone has been congenial and I have not had to delete or censor all that many comments up and until today. That is nice, I again thank you for not hammering my dumb butt into the ground when I occassionally step over some invisbile line.

You have been most gracious.

I want to thank my Brother John in Western PA. who has been an immense help during this start up period, for teaching me the nuiances of computerland, and helping me to learn geek-speak and all the other associated terms that are often necessary for all this to come together. Kudo’s to Art out in the shakey-side of Nevada, and Trish down in the swamps of Louisanna … Hey, that kind of ryhmes, we might have a post right there.

My coffee consumption is up considerably, had to buy an egg timer just to remind me to get up and get away from the keyboard every now and then. This could possibly be an addiction on my part, I don’t know. Recently I came across a good page “DisIsMyPlace” and she had a piece in there that kind of hits close to the house on some of the nuts and bolts details of this bloggin’ thing. The article can be found there at DisIsMyPlace the name of the article is mental constipation. A good read, and it just about covers it, how doing this daily can be rather addicting at times.

Like I have said, “it has been a trip.” Finding myself in here for hours, tweaking this and that, trying to get it to come together and be the best it can be. If it isn’t, then it is not worth doing. It has been a rewading experience, learned a lot of new stuff starting from scratch and all, and I have picked up some very appreciative, warm, understanding web friends along the way.

Like the old trapper in the movie Jerimiah Johnson said ….. “You come a long way pilgrim, were it worth the trip?” and Bob Redford smiles and says, “Trip? Eh, what trip?”

In sixty days there have been close to 1,500 people come and visit this site. This to me is absolutely incredible, when you stop to figure I didn’t know one solitary soul in the neighborhood when I first started out. As I am a novice, I don’t know for sure if those numbers are good or not, but I would like to think they are.

A few statistic’s and then I am outta here. 105 hits or as I call them “visitors” on the best day, which was on April 6th. Moses Dies the death of Charleston Heston, English Class a nostalgic look back at high school, and the title page post, a whimsical somewhat light-hearted piece, about invisible deoderant and not wanting to get out of bed in the morning LOOKING THRU THE KEY HOLE .

Well, it was a slow day, what can I say?

It might pay to note here, that on the busiest day we ever had, we only received “2″ comments. So don’t put a lot of stock in “hits” they are not all that important. People come to read, browse the material and then they are off to the next guy. Creative Endeavors put out 154 posts during this time, 17 catagories, 103 tags, and a total of 54 comments. Which might prove that “hits” are not where it is at, “content” is the key.

We have been pinged so many times … My ears are ringing!

Having no real idea as to where all this is going in the future is anyone’s guess. We will just sit back and watch it unfold, and then comment on it. I will be prepared, after all, “It wasn’t raining when Noah started building the Ark.” Our mission is to provide good information, humor, a lift up and a smile down the road.

If we can hit any one of them, then I figure we were right on the money.

Thanks again Gang … You have been swell.

Don Smith