Day 192 - day two of three in the office

 Today is the 3rd day of the 28th week, the 11th day of the 7th month, the 192nd day of 2023, and:

• 7-11 Day - AKA free slurpee day at participating stores
• All American Pet Photo Day
• Bowdier's Day - if the GOP knew about this one, they would definitely be celebrating it, especially in Florida!
• Cow Appreciation Day
• Day of the Five Billion [the world population hit this mark back in 1987, and new records are set each year]
• International Sister Cities Day
• Make Your Own Sundae Day
• National Blueberry Muffin Day
• National Cheer Up the Lonely Day
• National Mojito Day
• National Rainier Cherry Day
• National Swimming Pool Day
• World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day
• World Population Day
• the first day of Naadam 
• and Voyager 1 is 22h 08m 24s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."  

~ Horace

I read a lot of blog posts, aggregating them via Newsblur these days.  I started out putting links on my personal page in CeoExpress [of which I am a charter subscriber and where I previously blogged], then used Google Reader until that was taken away.  What I was interested in was information and differing viewpoints.  Some blogs are more opinionated than others, but I don't gravitate towards them unless I find them entertaining.  I try to read writers that I do not agree with to avoid an echo chamber, but I'm not sure how successful I am at that because I grow impatient with what I perceive as actual stupidity!  For example, one very right-wing blogger fell off my list because of his insistence the Biden family was actually a criminal enterprise was so strong that he referred to it every single post.

So, at some point, I decided to join in the fun myself.

When I started blogging,  at first I just babbled.  It was kinda like writing a letter to a penpal - just talking about stuff happening every day whether it was in my real life or in my 2nd lives.  When I was maintaining the Wiki sight, I was doing research on different news and regulatory and/or compliance issues and posting information for anyone in financial services.  At the same time, I was actively posting and writing about knowledge management, specifically 'stealth KM', which I felt and still feel is a vital organizational skill and started speaking about back in the 1990's.  [Obviously I should've written a book]

 

There are times when I have chosen to use this medium as a soapbox to express rather forcibly my personal understanding of things, whether it be politics or culture or a burning personal issue [such as the state of my HVAC or parking wars], but I don't think that is the mainstay of my posts.  And when I read advice about how to increase readership, or even monetize my scribbles, I realize that in order to create regular essays, I would need to define the blog even as I defined the defunct Wiki.  I don't feel the need to do that at this point - perhaps someday when I have more hours in the day to devote to writing and research, I will return to that kind of focus, but for now?  I'm just letting the words flow and taking my readers along with my varied candid reflections.