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So the staples are out of my skin and I've a new shiny cast to last me until mid-October. This should make for some great times! I'm not even talking about the Percocets prescribed to me which I should probably peddle off to some high schoolers so I can pay off the huge healthcare bill that's awaiting me. *THIS IS A JOKE, COPS & GOVERNMENT AGENTS. PLEASE DO NOT ARREST ME!!! I AM KIDDING!!!*

Ok, where was I... Right. I'm catching up on a few things now that the post-surgery haze has cleared and yet I still haven't returned to the office. Just prior to learning my immediate need for surgery, but after I'd injured myself, my brother and I took a vacation out to LA & Vegas. If any pictures are worth posting, I'll slap one or two on here later.

Now, just before the trip out west, I'd been tagged for a meme by Ashley the Jazzgeek and I am finally going to answer it now.

The question is: Why do you blog?
Simply put, I started a Blogger account so it'd be easier to comment on my brother's blog. Since I was already signed up, it seemed a waste not to post stupid jokes & comments on my page. I wanted to see if anyone would read them and if so, whether they'd be amused; I get a kick out of making people laugh (but not from champagne, alas). I'd also been studying some HTML and CSS at the time so I figured I could experiment with them too. Lastly, it gave me an opportunity to try to read & comment in Chinese on blogs in Asia.

As people occasionally stopped by, I decided what a good opportunity to test some jokes I'd been working on in case I ever got the guts to go to an open mike stand-up night or if The Onion ever decided to seek me out and hire me :) (you hear that Onion? I'll freelance!!)

Anyway, the joke results were a mixed bag, and the Chinese thing was just too damn slow (because I suck at it), but as I was browsing other people's blogs, I realized there were a lot of funny/interesting people posting online and the voyeuristic aspects of blogging, as well as the pseudo-community vibe, was something I enjoyed. Until I started visiting too many and it became too difficult to keep up with everyone. I'm sort of a "completionist" so I get a little bugged out if I'm missing bits.

The solution of course turned out to be that a lot of those original people have stopped posting on their sites and my job has been running me ragged. This allows me only snippets of time to really check up on others which somehow negates the completionist anxiety.

Regardless, it's been fun and I'll keep at it as long as I can and I hope others do too. If anyone's still awake, I will now tag: Bo, Violet, PBS, ordinarygirl, and SuziMac. (Maybe I've read your reasons before, long ago, but damned if I can't remember!)