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It's time for change

I've struggled the past year to write anything on this blog. And while it may sound like a goofy reason, part of it has to do with the name ... The Dead Dog Blog. I just don't like it ... never really have been that wild about it. I know, I know ... you're thinking, "You're the one who named it!" Yeah, it was probably really late at night, too.

It made sense ... at first. But then it stopped making sense. I would come up with a topic to write about and then would talk myself out of it because it didn't sound like something that would be on a blog called The Dead Dog Blog.

Then I found through one of my random (albeit, self-serving) Google searches that there were other blog sites that had Dead Dog in the name. One is actually about a dead dog. Yuck. It made me think that perhaps I was losing a bunch of readers due to the confusion. Just think ... if just one of the followers of my blog went to the wrong site, I would lose one-third of my reader base. I can't take that kind of hit.

Of course, the trouble is trying to find a name/title that hasn't been used. There are more "Brian's Blog" than you can swing a dead cat at (my apologies to all of my cat-loving followers ... it's just a saying ... dang, I've now alienated a third of my reader base again). Jack Handey already has the "Deep Thoughts" franchise sewn up (hey ... if Johnny Depp had a blog would it be called "Depp Thoughts"? ... that was random ... that's how my mind works).

ANYWAY ... where was I? ... oh yeah ... new name. I don't want to end up like Dillon Edwards Investments when it comes to naming (look it up ... unless you blush easily ... then don't) so I've done my due diligence on Google and have finally settled on a new title for my blog.


I like new starts. I always like the beginning of the year, the start of football season, the launch of a new business, the excitement of a new car (even if it's just new-to-me), or a new bike route ... heck, I even like babies, puppies, and kittens. They all represent life to me. And that's what IT is all about ... finding new life.

So that's what I'm doing. I'm saying goodbye to the Dead Dog Blog and finding new life in my new blog ...

Until then ...

bb

Blogging and Cheese Nachos

So I haven't blogged in about a year.

• Excuse #1 .... ummmm
• Excuse #2 .... so, ummm
• Excuse #3 .... I got nothin'

I'd like to have this grand excuse about all the cool things I've been doing and time just wouldn't permit me to write it all down.  But that's not the case.  The truth is ... I'm just not a good blogger.  I don't have good ideas with any regularity so I find that my blogging would be inconsistent at best (probably like a year in between posts).

You're probably thinking, "Ah, but something has inspired him to start again," and you would be incorrect.  I have no inspiration.  The bulk of my thought processes go to things like "I wonder if there's enough cheese for a plate of nachos" or my sermon preparation.  Either of those would likely bore you to tears.

I'm not a thinker of great thoughts ... I'm an accumulator ... I process what other people say.  And even then I tend to mangle it when I try to repeat it.  I think I've come up with about three original, repeatable quotes in my life and for the life of me I can't remember what they were.

BUT ... my wife ... now there's a thinker.  I've refused to argue with her for 25 years of marriage because she thinks too well.  There's no way I could win (and we all know that arguing in marriage is all about winning).  She has this keen ability to read or listen to someone and walk away from it and go, "Here's what was said in a nutshell and here's how I think it might apply to me."  Whereas I'm more like, "Umm, yeah what he said was really good ... hey I wonder if there's enough cheese for a plate of nachos."

Don't get me wrong ... I don't think I'm stupid ... I just process differently than she does.  I have to study it ... find the context ... examine the history ... etc.  By the time I'm done "The Effects of the Cotton Gin on the Current Generation" is no longer a trending topic.  I'm usually a day or two late to the conversation.

All this to say ... check out my wife's new blog.  She thinks and causes me to think and dare I say, will cause you to think, also.  So, to all three two of my followers (she's the third), go read her blog.  Engage in conversation -- she loves that.  

Love. Peace. Nachos

bb