Setting up my Blog

Pushing, kicking, & Shoving my way to setup success!

So, I spent all day learning about the craft of blogging, and setting up various accounts like Google Webmaster Tools, Twitter, and Youtube. I now realize that it’s rather large mountain that I’ve decided to climb. I also can sense this wonderfully large ball of clay begging to be molded and crafted into something I can be proud of, something to call my own. So essentially at this point my blog is a blog, about all the steps I am and will be taking to create a successful blog or at least an entertaining one.

I’m having fun learning about the intricacies of this place called the web. At least the social side of it, and I think that’s the direction that I want to take, is a social/technical direction. I don’t think it will have enough code to keep the technically minded searching for examples happy (if you’re searching for those kinds of examples may I suggest Stack Overflow) and perhaps It’ll have just enough code/tech content that It scares the non-technical away. Be that as it may I’ll be going in that direction and seeing if anyone is interested in it.

During my preparation leading up to this post I was ripped away from my work quite unexpectedly by my wife, who was rather distraught about the disarray of my office and the contents thereof. At first I was annoyed but as I continued to help, I realized that it was providing me with a much needed break from the computer. Something I probably wouldn’t have done of my own accord anyways. As I continued to help her, I noticed that she seemed to be getting more upset, instead of happy that she was receiving help. Looking back at it now I think I can safely say that about 90% of the time I have no clue about women at all! Thank goodness for geniuses like Dr. John Gray and his galactic interspecies studies. Without the aid of such an insightful tome of knowledge, I’d still think that women talk too much or ask too many questions. <– What a silly newlywed mistake that would be. Seriously I can’t recommend his book highly enough. It’s life altering stuff.

I later had some time to think about it and talk about it with my wife and have come to the conclusion that really she was just upset about my lack of involvement concerning the household chores and about the prospect of receiving next to no help in the days to come. Worded this way I can understand why she was so upset. It would also make me pretty upset to be in her shoes and feel that way. It’s just hard for me as a man to sift through all the emotion, so I can pick out the informational nucleus at the center of a woman’s emotionally driven communication. Which I would like to note in my wife’s case is about 1 part Information to 99 parts relationship defining emotion. Perhaps there’s hope for me yet to shed the chauvinistic mantel of misogyny. Seriously though, all men should do themselves a favor and learn to correctly interpret the emotions of their lady.

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