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Surreality

October 22nd, 2007

I’m in bad mood today. What else is new?

I wrote my little anniversary post this morning, and ended it politely like Me Mammy always taught me to.

I then had to go out to the village.

First thing was that I found my gate blocked by a f*cking SUV! As I am surrounded by damned building sites at the moment, I picked a builder at random and nailed him to a gatepost. He eventually told me who owned the SUV, just before he passed out.

The SUV was moved [and that is going to be a pile of ashes by tonight] so I went to the village. I found a nice parking spot but another f*cking SUV swung into it just ahead of me. Is it any wonder I hate the things?

In the shop, I saw a notice pinned to the wall. To cheer myself up, I read it, as it was from the local Senior Citizens’ Club.

Dear Friends,
It’s that time of year again when we have our last get-together.
With supper, music and dancing.

What the hell is this about? Senior Citizen Culling? A Lemming Syndrome? I didn’t realise they held an annual mass-suicide.

I won’t be going. I have no intention of popping my clogs just yet.

On my way home I got stuck behind a tourist bus. In October! Do they not know any better? Do they not read by blog?? Luckily, I had my RPG with me [Sandy was sitting on it, so it was nice and warm]. That made me feel a lot happier.

Then I get home and find my blog is filling up with comments.

What’s wrong with you all? Did no-one ever to say good bye when you are finishing a conversation? Should I have said ‘see ya’, or ‘talk to you tomorrow’ or whatever the modern idiom is?

I liked the comment from Rhodester -

You best not quit blogging now.. if you do, I shall bring the missus and visit Ireland. We’ll hang out in your local pub and beat everyone at darts while regaling you with tales of life in California. We’ll be loud, brash and rude, and we’ll wear Hawaiian shirts and take pictures of EVERYTHING, so we can post them to our blogs upon returning home. Our friends will read about it and see the pictures, then they’ll want to come, and come they shall.. in droves..

Reminds me of the 60′s!!

And it just goes to show [to quote the Irish Rail ad] “A lot done, a lot more to do”.

The madness and the mayhem will continue. If only to keep Rhodester out.

I have to go now.

I have a few more builders to cull.

The year is over

October 22nd, 2007

I first launched this site on the 22nd of October 2006.

It was done as a joke. It was also done as an experiment, because I knew nothing about blogging.

If I had read other blogs before starting this, I might have adopted a completely different style. But I knew nothing, so just wrote whatever came into my head.

It has been a bit of a roller coaster of a ride. It has made me many friends; some real, some virtual. I have been introduced to the world of podcasting. I have been asked to write for the Irish Times. I have appeared on television. All because of the blog.

It hasn’t been hard work, because I enjoyed it. I probably got most pleasure out of the comments. Many’s the time Herself has told me to shut up, because I have laughed out loud at some comment or other.

The site has grown in popularity for some unknown reason. Last week alone, I was visited by 17,000 people who read 29,000 pages between them. That is a lot of people.

Anyway, when I set out, I decided I would do it for a year, and that I would try and do a post every day. In fact I wrote 524 posts and received over 6,200 comments. Wow!

And now the year is over.

Thank you all so much for reading.

Good Bye.