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This will be the last post for the Blind Dog Blog, and one week from today I'm freeing the bandwidth it's taking for more useful purposes.
When I started this blog, I thought I could write DiDi stories forever. Turns out I can't, and since I ran out of them, all that's been left is my family. And I am really uncomfortable writing about my family. Not because there's anything wrong with it, but because I was not raised to be so public with something that by its very essence is private.
That leaves writing about me, which I've done, and I find the results vain and disgustingly narcissistic. It's no wonder that hardly anyone bothers to leave a comment. I give you no reason to care.
In short, this has become pointless and there are other far more useful things to do with life. If I can come up with something to blog about that doesn't involve me, maybe I will, but I'm just not cut out for this kind of writing. If you've enjoyed it, I'm glad; but everything I see coming to this page tells me you're in the minority.
Thanks for your time.
No kidding, folks, I'm actually to the point I sometimes forget this blog even exists anymore. Just been busy, nothing else. Here's a quick update of life in the Blind Dog Country:
* Our cat Smokey is now having porch-door staredowns with DiDi in the Great Pet Beyond. The poor critter apparently had a stroke, making her unable to move her rear legs. My stepson got home from school and found her crying in a puddle of pee in the family room, unable to move. He got her to the vet and Mom met him there and the prognosis was, well, literally grave. They said their goodbyes tearfully. This was just over a week ago. Since, my stepdaughter has agreed to leave her cat Cuddles with us (go back to the 2008 posts--I think it's in March or April--to read a fascinating story about Cuddles) while she's honeymooning with her husband in Hawaii.
* Speaking of which, one year to the day after they eloped at the newspaper in Pittsburg where a copy editor just happened to be a licensed minister, my stepdaughter and husband are having their "official" wedding ceremony May 9. It'll have, surprise, a Hawaiian theme. Just maybe I'll put picture of it up here so you can see how we all look in our nice clean LOUD Hawaiian shirts. My wife's outfit is purple. I've never seen a purple Hawaiian shirt before, not to mention a matching skirt, but it looks nice at least hanging in the closet and should look lovely on her I'm sure. We'll see. . .
* Finally, the "publishable" version of my NaNoWriMo novel is submitted to the good people at createspace.com, meaning I'll have the proof copy in a few weeks and y'all can drop $16.00 on it through Amazon so I can have 90 cents for each copy you buy. Wow, this sounds like a promising enterprise. . . I also apparently have the option of setting up my own e-store through them so I can make much more money from suckers, er, literary enthusiasts willing to pay for a PDF the same price as sane, er, ordinary people would pay for a genuine paperback book. Any advice on getting a book REALLY published would be most welcome.
All for now--until I start my next Great American Novel, I should have more time for this silliness. Feel free to encourage (or discourage) me with comments below. :-)
