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| Hey, I don't know how many people still have me on their subscription list, but I thought I should tell those of you who don't know...
I got married about a month ago to an amazing girl named Jeanette! We're living in South Bend where I work for Notre Dame, and she teaches Choir in the Elkhart school system. Being married is the coolest thing ever. Allow me to share some G Rated observations of the past month:
- Sharing a bed with a girl is harder than you think. They are TOTAL blanket hogs!!
- The aforementioned blanket hogs will accuse you of snoring if you say anything about them taking all the blanket.
- Coming home to a wife who's missed you all day is sooo much better than a house full of guys or even a dog.
- Laying with her head on my chest is the most peaceful place in the world.
- Getting up in the morning is easier because i have someone to push me out of bed, but at the same time, she's really cute and snuggly and I don't want to get out of bed.
- She is smarter than me in a lot of ways.
- I can still beat her at Mario Party 7 though.
(ya I copy and pasted that from my site, I'm lazy)
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| When I was a child I blogged like a child.
Welshmnky is leaving.
But I would never leave you without a reason, and directions on how to follow.
Trust me. You want to. Here’s what Steve Smith from www.orderedlist.com has to say about Xanga:
Xanga is a ‘partially closed community.’ While public viewing of
content is allowed, participation in comments is not. Membership
is required, therefore discouraging non-members from joining in
conversation. This is disadvantageous for many reasons, first and
foremost being lack of public voice. Imagine if The New York
Times
only read suggestion letters from those with annual subscriptions.
They would miss the possible feedback, be it positive or negative, from
hundreds of thousands of newsstand readers across the globe.
Some might say that they don’t want public comments, or they only care
about dialogue with a few friends. That still means that those
friends still need a Xanga account to interact. There have been
many times when I have wanted to comment on a friends post, but was
unable to do so because I don’t (and refuse to) have a Xanga account.
Whether or not it is intended, it gives the impression that you don’t
care what the general public (or those friends who belong to that
group) have to say. And if you don’t care what they have to say, why should they care about what you have to say?
In the beginning, Xanga was popular because it made it easy to join
communities, to easily find other peoples sites, and be alerted each
time they contributed content. That era is past, Xanga is
outdated and ugly, and the internet around Xanga has progressed.
RSS makes it so easy to keep track of hundreds of sites without the
need for a closed, tracked online community. The flexibility
allowed by other blogging software like Blogger, Typepad, Movable Type,
WordPress, etc., far outweighs any community benefits Xanga used to
offer. So break free, open your eyes and your blogs to the rest
of the online world.
Steve Smith
www.orderedlist.com
RSS
This is the present and the future of news and blogging.
If you haven’t heard of it, check the link. It explains it better than I can. A great example of it is my.yahoo.com or even MSN.
They are all pulling RSS Feeds. You could potentially pull a feed from
any site with an RSS feed to my.yahoo.com and keep up on it from
anywhere. These sites or programs that pull all these Feeds from other
sites together are called Aggregators. I recommend this one: www.bloglines.com
the directions are pretty simple and it is the only aggregator that I
know that lets you watch xangas (Xanga doesn’t have RSS, this gets
around that somehow… This will allow you to keep up on all your friends
who haven’t left yet).
For my site for instance you can either just put my name in as someone who uses blogspot, or use my RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Welshmnky) and you’ll get an instant update every time I post.
The next question is one of where should you go from here if you leave
xanga. Well, do your research, and find an open community like Steve
talked about above. I’m going to www.blogspot.com , but there are lots
of others out there to choose from. If you know your html and such
pretty well you can just build your own. Those are the coolest. The
nice thing about RSS is that it doesn’t matter where you build your
site as long as you have a feed we are still linked.
A LOT of you are here on xanga because of something that Gwyn
and I started years ago at Bethel (and a good portion of you I just
happened to meet through xanga). You had no idea what a blog was, but
now look at you. You have become writers, each in your own degree.
Everyone from Brooke’s crazy antics with her ex and her son, to Side’s reporting on our extreme sports.
It’s time to move. The transition has been made easy. Follow again. You’ll be glad you did.
-Welshmnky-
www.welshmnky.blogspot.com
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Today is
another momentous day for me. They all seem to be as of late. This afternoon I have
a meeting to find out if I get my job back(I was RIFed) and then I think I have
another one next Tuesday and that will be more about that. ALSO today is my mom’s
43rd birthday so happy birthday to her. ALSO this morning Jeanette
left for 2 weeks on a road trip with her mom to Prince
Edward Island in Canada.
Ya, granted in the grand scheme of things, 2 weeks really isn’t that long, but
hey, I’m allowed to miss my girl.
Let me tell
ya, this whole “Relationship” thing is great. I can’t say it’s been easy,
because they never are; but it’s been good. We have our challenges, and our
struggles, but we’re both committed to this and we aren’t giving up. For those
of you that are counting we’re at 4.5 months. To quell your naysaying (those of
you who naysay) who might say things like “oh, you hardly know each other! You probably
don’t even get on each other’s nerves yet! It’ll never last! Just wait until
she sees how annoying and messy and and and… whatever else you are!!” well to
you, I’d like to do a little naysaying of my own…. “Hey! Shut up! Trust me, we
get on each other’s nerves, we push each other, we get mad, we forgive, we
laugh, we cry (well I mean… SHE does… I’m a man. I don’t cry), we grill out
together. So there ya go. My daily quota of nay is now said. (Naysay is one of
the best verbs EVER!)
Ok so
anyway things are going well. Gwyn is gonna mail me her Cable modem so I can
get internet up at home and then my blogging revolution will begin anew.
Whether or not I’ll stay on xanga is yet to be determined, but I’m leaning away
from it strongly. I’ll encourage you all to come follow. It’ll be fun out
there. We’ll all go together. Once again a Welshmnky shall lead them. I don’t
call you my followers for nothing.
Oh and if
you are from work and you’re spying on me, I wrote this at lunch and posted it during
some free time I had. Thought you should know.
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| ok so here it is SUNDAY MORNING...
The reason for my recent departure from xanga was explained in the previous post that was protected for only those of you who i subscribe to.
but anyway... here i am now.
Came home this weekend and did some disc golfin with my brothers and Heather (nate's gf) we went to the park (which used to be a garbage dump) it was pretty fun, i played terrible, and nate lost a disc, but it was good hanging out with my brothers. Then we came home and went swimmin, and went to Das Dutchmen Essenhaus. It's the biggest restaurant this side of the Missisipi. Seriously. Gotta love the Amish.
This week starts the War of The Worlds series at GCC, this is the first weekend in the completed sanctuary. HOLY COW IT'S HUGE. I was there on thursday, and it was crazy big.
J went to a wedding yesterday for some friend of her family. But I'll get to see her here shortly cuz we're meeting at church.
sorry this isn't real thought provoking today... i've missed posting so bad. gotta get back into the feel again. My computer is being fixed right now, and as soon as it's done i'll start posting from home. Fear not friends... I shall return. | | |
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