The day after…the toys are being played with….the gadgets are up and working and now the clean-up from yesterday has begun.

Since Sue and I will be trying to get the house back into order I will not be spending much time on IST today. 

I thought I would take some time and look back on the early days of my blogging journey.

Today I started blogging but on a different platform, Blogger, it was for me to rehab my mind…..on 26Dec2006 I was hurt working to straighten up the Coast after Katrina….a ladder I was work off of shifted on some debris and I fell onto concrete breaking my right leg in 3 places…..after 2 surgeries and a shitload of metal I sorta got my leg back but it would never be the same…..I had been in rehab for months and my mind was starting to betray me so I learned about blogs and off I went.

Back in those early days I had one regular visitor when I was on the other platform he went by the name of Quin and he lived in the Canary Islands….and as so many bloggers do he eventually disappear into the ether….

After a couple years on Blogger I decided to switch to Word Press and the rest, as they say, is history…..I had all my previous posts imported to WP.  I also changed the name to Info Ink after a company I had back in the Compuserve days, the Dark Ages.  The name changed a couple of times until I decided to name it after a self-published book of poetry back in the 70s, In Saner Thought.

I thought I would take a short trip into my blogging past and share with my readers……

This was my first post just to get started…

INTRODUCTION

Short and sweet….and so it began.

Back in those days there was not many people rushing to read a blog entitled “Studies And Observations’….so I tried to get creative to see if I could generate some interests and followers….

This one was my first attempt…..

Watermelon Makes You Horny

Although at one point that was the most clicked on…..so I tried yet again to generate some traffic.

“Fart Gas” Linked To Blood Pressure

Those two attempts were not as successful as I had hoped so I decided to stop trying so hard and just write what I knew and what I thought my reader would like to learn.

My most popular day was 31May08….a total of 745 clicks….this is one of the posts from that day…

Liberal vs Conservative

As you can see not many were rushing to comment on my thoughts.

That was 18 years ago and I am still fighting for visitors, as we all are….but that is not the important part….quality visitors is the only stat I worry about and I have some great visitors and they just keep coming….although slowly but arriving nonetheless.

I would like to thank all those faithful visitors that have stuck with me for so many years….please know I appreciate each and every one.

Onto to another 18 years and quality readers and friendships abound.

Thank you!

IST should be back to normal posting tomorrow and thanx for sticking with me.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”