Whatever happened to 'Oldest Living Blogger'?......
By Ray on March 27, 2008 - 6:13pm
My rating's been slipping drastically on Google lately, because I haven't been using my
old original nickname in my blogs. Maybe I'm vain, but a nice fat rating improves my disposition remarkably. I enjoy acceptance. But there's no 'free lunch', so if you want
the ratings, you have to earn them somehow, because nothing's forever.
So, Dear Google, reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated. I am, in fact, still very
much alive and kicking. Well, alive, anyway. Kicking isn't on the agenda just now, because
I'm recovering from some surgery to the old belly which involved four and a half hours on the operating table, and an incision eight and a half inches long from north to south. To the east and west of that, things are still more than a bit tender. But the good news is, I'm here
to be able to say so.
And if the Good Lord's willing and the creeks don't rise, I'll try to think up something
thought-provoking to write about, any day now. I can't promise you a scintillating essay
the likes of which Samantha is famous for, but I'll think of something - like for example,
why are some of the big eastern ISPs throttling back on their users' bandwidth allowances?
Is this a trend of the future? A scam to extract more money from us? Or what? If you can
find out, please add a comment here for the rest of us. And stay tuned, Folks...