And, The Celebration Continues.

Yesterday I was greeted by this happy sight when I went to lunch.  It was kind of a teary moment for the whole company, most of whom don't even know I have a blog.  In fact this woman probably doesn't know.  But, she is a very good sport, (and a very good friend, and a exceptionally good person) and agreed to hold the sign, which was actually a box, with a product still inside, and I just added the text.*

Actually, she is always willing to help me out by holding props and letting me take her picture, sometimes I use an app to put a silly mask on her, and she never, well hardly ever, gets mad about it.  This time I just cropped the picture, so she can't complain at all, probably.

But, 500 posts later, something foolish should be done, and I am just the guy for the job.

On to more news, I have decided to approach Peter Garrett, member of the Australian House of Representatives, to be the Official Celebrity Endorser for Life Explained, not because of his political success, at least not just because of his political success, more because of his time as the spokesperson and lead singer for Midnight Oil.

So many of their songs said the things I am saying, repeatedly, of course being Australian, he sounds much better saying them, and being fearless, and politically keen, he said them with much more vigor, and putting them to music always makes them sound better.  Other than those few things we are like brothers.  So, here is my brother Peter, (and possibly future Celebrity Front Man for Life Explained) singing about greed, waste and the excesses of capitalism, I think.

I will see you for post 503, or maybe 504.  I can't really remember.

*text added with "Strip Design," see my review here.

500, read and 'em weep, but please weep quietly.

Yesterday I posted my 500th entry in this humble blog.  Five hundred is a big number, a lot of words, and some investment of time, not always a lot of thought, or any real ideas, but plenty of..., well I don't know what, but there is plenty of it.

Looking back it is still uncertain what drove that first post, so many months ago.  And I can't really say why I keep typing.  I guess, maybe, I had something to say, and maybe I still do.  Maybe, maybe I just like the idea of other people reading the things I wrote, and maybe I am just too stubborn to stop, who knows.

It seems like I should do something celebratory, something significant, but, like my reasons for starting and staying, what that would be escapes me.  We are going to a pot luck dinner at our neighbors house this evening, I might pretend that is all in honor of 500!  I will do that on surreptitiously, taking a few pictures, and acting like they are all there praising my talent, or at least my endurance.  Look for pictures here, with embellished banners and speech bubbles, later.

I have been considering changing platforms lately, maybe Wordpress, or something similar, mostly because I have a new computer, (a Surface Pro 3) and in Microsoft Word there is an option to write, format and publish my blog posts, but I can not figure out how to use the picture server to work.  (I have a Flickr, Photobucket, and Picasa account in case any of you technical wizards have any insights.)  But, at 500 I am not sure I want to change.

Recently I have started submitting work to Lefty Pop, and Find.com, and they are tied at two published submissions each, so stay tuned for updates.

That covers the past, for the most part.  Now, I need to start working on the future, and that is pretty cool.