165 blog posts and 5000 reads

As I sit here in Starbucks to spend another day uploading my CD collection into my iTunes, I checked the status of just how many blogs I've posted since making this profile in January.

This is blog number 165.

It's a blog of celebration because it also marks 5000 reads of those 165 blogs.

That isn't a typo... that says FIVE THOUSAND.

My profile doesn't even have that many views. I think my profile views are up to 3035 right now.

In any event, this is just amazing to me. It would seem that many of you on my elite friend list (and those that have come and gone) are actually reading my mindless dribble.

Then again, maybe some of you are just... kind of... scrolling through much of it to get the general vibe. While others of you might just be hitting my blogs to raise my viewership. Well, ok, that's a bit of a stretch. I'm just mental.

In a way, these blogs are like my own little radio show.

I hope I get a plaque or a medal or a $25.00 gift certificate to Applebee's for my work in the literary field here on MySpace. The should have a Blog Awards ceremony. It could be hosted by Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg or Jon Stewart! I can hear the promo now...

"Tonight at 8 PM on NBC, catch the 1st Annual MySpace Blog Awards brought to you in part by Apple Computers! Find out who will win the coveted Blogitzer® Prize for outstanding work in blogging! Guest performances include a moving read by Stephen King of his new book "Liseys Story". Other guest performances include Big Bird reciting the alphabet, Ashlee Simpson lip-syncing "The Cat In The Hat", Marlee Matlin reciting "War & Peace" completely in sign language and Paris Hilton chugging cock just to get in on the media frenzy that is sure to be literature's finest moment in television history! It all happens tonight on CBS. Don't miss the pre-show red carpet extravaganza hosted by Tom Clancy, Danielle Steele, Dean Koontz and Dane Cook starting at 7 pm!"

My friend Royce in Erie, Pennsylvania suggested I write a book. I've seriously thought about that. Actually, I should just find a publisher who'll print my 165 blogs into a short novel. I'd call it "The Book Of Blogs".

Maybe not.

You know, there was a time in my teens I was writing a book. I even remember the awful title I had given it. At the time, I thought it was clever. Now, at 33, I'm almost embarrassed to repeat it.

It was going to be called "The Rubberband Theory". Under the title would be the following passage: "This book will either hit you and make you wince or miss you and make you wonder".

Ahhhhhhhhh, dreams of being a writer at 19 or 20 or however old I was. With a title like THAT, I'm sure I would have won the Pulitzer®.

I still have the 20 or 30 pages I wrote somewhere in my childhood/early youth/teen years box of memories. I think that also holds my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars collection.

Man, I loved playing with those little cars when I was a kid. My G.I. Joe's, too. I wasn't big on the Transformers but I did enjoy He-Man. I also watched Voltron and Pee-Wee's Playhouse.

Anyway, my thanks to those of you across the globe reading up on my daily life escapades. With many of these blogs I've written, some of you have commented on how my writing has helped you come to terms with some of the same problems you've faced.

Others of you have given your opinion on what I could do to better my situation with helpful advice or suggestions.

Some of you have shared your own stories with me based on things I've talked about here in blog form. In some cases, I'll re-post those stories with my own take on it.

And others of you have made it clear your disgust for me and have wished some wonderfully hateful things upon me.

I'll just keep writing even if people stop reading. I do this more to give myself some sort of self therapy... even though it doesn't seem to be helping in anyway.

But it seems to help others, I suppose.

I guess I'm going to have to start charging admission into my blog area.

-Mike The Janitor
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