National Blog Posting Month 2008

It's that time of year again. Here we go again, let's see if I can manage 30 posts in 30 days for NaBloPoMo...

Hallowe'en last night. Did the traditional carving of a pumpkin lantern, bobbing for apples and disconnecting the doorbell to avoid the "Trick or Treaters".

Heard this rant on Radio 4 last night - "When I was a boy we didn't go knocking on doors, begging for sweets. No we used to create a straw effigy and go out on the streets begging for money instead." :)

Dropped the boys off at their Grandma's this morning and went off to do some early Christmas shopping. Not doing too badly considering it's only the beginning of November - only a few more to get.

Going to see the new James Bond film "Quantum of Solace" tonight. Hope it's as good as the last one.

There's a panic on at work, and we're trying to recover a failed system - so I've got to go in at 04:00 on Sunday morning to help nurse the recovery along. At least I'll get a good view of the Church of the Bright Green Neon Rabbit on my way past at that time in the morning.

NaBloPoMo

Chaotic's last blog entry has inspired me to join in with NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month).

I have to post one blog entry a day for the month of November. - OK so I failed at the first hurdle, since I didn't discover this until today, and hadn't posted yesterday. (I'll count my Hallowe'en post as the first one).

I'm not going to have a theme - just random posting about life, family, thoughts, rants, stuff I've found that I want to share, bad jokes etc.

There you go, that's my first post done.

DarkDwarf Blog - 1st Anniversary

I started this blog a year ago today.

Surprised myself by managing to keep on blogging for a whole year. Admittedly the frequency of the posts has dwindled to two or three a week, rather than the enthusiastic daily posting of the early days.


Fairly mundane stuff that will NEVER be as good as this inspired website/blog/business/international social relationship and network enhancing tool by Padge. So why will I carry on blogging?

1) Gives me an opportunity to let off steam and rant at the world.
2) Helps me keep in touch with people. Lets friends and family know what's going on in my life. As well as the few people who regularly read my posts (cha0tic,impworks and Novelist Supermum, where did DrDenzilDexter go?) it's a handy way of composing a reply when I get a "Hi there, long time no hear from you" email - I can point them to a few sections of the blog.
3) It's a break from work.

My first post was about a submarine that I'd spotted going past the office window.

Selected highlights of the year:
The demise of the Goldfish
Frodo reads his first book
Trip to Rome
A week in Wales
Various DIY triumphs and disasters. (Incredibly somebody followed instructions from my blog for their own household wiring!)
Typical Morning
DarkDwarf DBA

To quote Rik Mayall "That's the wacky sort of person I am..."
Ah well, anything for a sad life..

And to all of you lurkers out there (you know who you are) - "POST SOME COMMENTS!".

Let's see if I can keep this up for another year...