Please Read: You’re not going to believe what you’re getting ready to believe by the end of this text. Oh, the “ins” and “outs” of owning a blog site. I’ve learned so much being just a few months in especially after surpassing my very first month as a Blogger with a live site. I’ve received some good questions from some of you and so felt the need to dispell some myths about my new Blog:

“Why do I have to provide an email address just to comment on one of your posts?”
That’s a good question, what we’re going to do there is sell your email address for $thousands of dollars each year over a several year timeframe to some stranger. This is the reason why you keep receiving all those spam emails, it’s all because of me and my web designers! 🙂 No seriously, I tried to change that setting to “no email address” required today, but there’s only one choice – first and last name and email address, or no clue at all who is commenting on my posts. So I choose to know who you are when you comment though I do not see your email address just from the simple fact that you made a comment on one of my posts. I do not collect email addresses or note them. Now if you “subscribe” to follow me, your email address is collected by a third party because that’s the only way for the service to send you a notification that there’s some new material posted on my blog that you as a subscriber may want to look at going forward. However, short of “subscribing”, or sending me a message on my “Contact Me” page, I do not view, collect, or retain the email address you provided to make any comment(s) on my post. I know how you feel though, no one wants those getting out for spam use.

“How much does it cost to subscribe to my blog site?”
Well, I’ll answer your question with a question – how many arms and legs do you have left? 🙂 It will only cost you time, and if you’re time is valuable and you don’t play much golf or have a real demanding spouse, then I’m thinking maybe you have free time to waste on my writings? I hope at least you can squeeze some time in. I am bearing all the costs associated with this site, I have no plans to make this anything but free, other than the time committed to entertaining yourself I see no other cost outlays for you to incur. However, in the future, there may be some medical studies conducted that could tie reading my writings to an enhanced risk of “brain damage”? But just know that I would probably deflect, and point your condition to some recreational drug you abused during your High School years instead. Suffice to say that subscribing to my site is not much different than following someone you’re connected with on FB, and we’ve all been there and done that!

After going live for one month now I have had more than 300 visitors to my site. I do not get details of who they are, just headcounts is all. I can honestly say I’m having fun with this. I think it’s probably where I belonged a long time ago, and I hope to share a ton more (crazy content) with all of you. One month in and I can’t say I miss being on FB, of course I miss my FB friends, but hope to see more of you visit me on my new site going forward.
Thank You!