Just About To Hit It Big

"The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." ~ Cecil B. DeMille

For those of you who don't have or use AOL, there is what is known as a "buddy list" where you can put the screennames (also known as user names) of your friends, so that you can simply link to them for purposes of instant messaging, e-mails, etc.

ER is on my list. As is Tech, and Mariee, and Jim O'Sullivan, and Sheila, etc.

An interesting feature of the buddy list is that anyone on AOL or AIM who sends me an e-mail or an instant message that isn't already on it, automatically gets added to the list under the heading of "Recent Buddies".

This morning, as I was sitting in front of my monitor trying to think of something, anything, that I am interested enough in to write about, a name popped up there, meaning someone who had e-mailed me or messaged me sometime, had just signed on.

Scott Ott.

OK. Who is Scott Ott you might ask? He is the administrator of a blog called ScrappleFace, a very popular humor/satire blog with a decidely Conservative slant.

How popular? Well, I'm quite sure since Rush Limbaugh has mentioned that he reads it, it is a bit more popular then before. But it is very popular.

I will confess right here that I am envious of anyone who's blog can attract the attention of someone like Rush, or Hannity, or Laura Ingraham, etc. So, since he is on my buddy list, I took the initiative of sending Mr. Ott an instant message. I told him he is on my buddy list and asked him if he is the same Scott Ott who's blog was mentioned by Rush Limbaugh, and he responded in the affirmative.

After that, a conversation ensued in which I touted my own blog. I proudly guided him to my recent post on which a record (for me, anyway) 83 comments were posted. He said, "That's up there". Whereupon, he apparently checked mine out and then offered the suggestion that I go with a light background and dark text if I wanted serious attention from major players like Limbaugh, etc.

I found him to be very gracious for a big time important blogger type fellow.

Except for the fact that I had no idea what he was talking about. Obviously, Mr. Ott is much more computer savvy than I am. I appreciate the help and advice he offered. I really do. But all that "Geek Speak" is "Greek speak" to me.

I am, after all, a "techno-moron". (A phrase, by the way, that I myself coined way back when the earth was cooling and computers were still DOS's.)

Anyway. I am inspired. Look for changes in my template soon. As soon as I get the courage to attempt to make a change that I fear, perhaps unreasonably, will wipe out my entire blog permanently. Actually, I know it can be done...Frenzied Feline did it.

Let me add here, that I have been distracted from blogging as of late, which should explain to some, the absence of comments from me on other blogs and the creating of posts, the quality of which I otherwise would never of been satisfied with before. I will try to come up with better, more original posts in the future. In the meantime, bear with me.