Tag: blogging

On re-invention

Wait! Don’t go. You’re in the right place. If all else fails…use a hammer has just had a bit of a makeover. What do you think? You like? It’s not yet permanent. I’m still experimenting with the new theme and haven’t decided whether I’m keeping it, but it’s growing on me. In any event, go check out the new About pages while you’re here and let me know what you think.

Why the change? This has been a good week. But this past week things have been changing. I’ve started exercising again (motivated, in part, by the discovery that I had gained six kilograms since April). I’ve started making progress with my reading for my degree. I’ve started writing again (okay, so I opened a new document on my pc and stared at the page for half an hour – that’s the most writing I’ve done outside of this blog for months). I’m just, like the epic song by Nina Simone says, feeling good. Continue reading “On re-invention” →

We interrupt our regular programming for this special update

Shortly after my last post the notification area lit up with a cute little trophy and when I clicked on it I got this:

Yes, dear readers, I have reached one hundred followers. Granted, some of them are not readers, but just spam-followers. Still, this is considered a milestone in blogland and I appreciate having reached it. Thanks to those who are following who actually do read what I write. This blog wouldn’t be the same without you. And a special word of welcome to the follower who pushed me over the mark, number 100, Steven Fox from SFoxWriting. I hope you enjoy it here.

Let me also take this moment to announce that this site will be undergoing some construction over the next couple of days. Some of the pages will be temporarily down and the overall appearance is going to change a few times as I experiment with a new look. Everything should be back to normal by Sunday.

Have a terrific weekend.

Search term shenanigans I

I’ve been watching on jealously for a while now as some of the bloggers I follow periodically post some of the more interesting search terms that have led potential readers to their sites. I also have been perusing my stats page regularly hoping for some wacky searches, but to no avail – they’ve all been depressingly boring and related to the topics I am writing about. But at last I have a few that I consider worth sharing with you (though some of them are merely shameless self-promotion of some of my older posts). Continue reading “Search term shenanigans I” →

On turning 100

This marks my 100th post on If all else fails…use a hammer (not counting reblogs – if I didn’t write them, they don’t count). I also considered not counting posts I imported from my first blog on Blogger, but that meant I’d have to do some math and I really didn’t feel like that. For the same reason I decided to count asides as posts even though they technically…aren’t.

So, this is post one hundred by solemn decree – mine.

To mark this auspicious occasion, I’m going to share with you 100 facts about me. I saw this on Brilliantly Novel and decided to ~~steal~~ borrow the idea. I hope you don’t mind that I ~~stole your idea~~ imitated you which they say is the sincerest form of flattery.

But without any further ado I give you…