I posted my first blog entry on Aug. 20, 2007. This will be entry 437, ost of them mine, but a number of really good columns were written by West Kentucky writer Berry Craig, and Craig Rhodes also contributed a little. My wife Kristi has contributed a few writings, and some photos.

I don't regularly get tons of hits or anything like that for the webpage, although some people do read it. Some of my pieces though, have gotten a number of hits, like my piece about Mitch McConnell's campaign ad about the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant workers. I haven't paid for any advertising for this webpage, and I haven't been paid for any advertising.

I have thought about it though, and have had discussions with other people about it. The reality is that I just don't have the time to pursue it right now. It's hard enough to get the time to sit down and write your thoughts, and I've been trying to spend less time at the computer, not more. That, too, can be difficult to accomplish in today's world.

But I've made some predictions that the mainstream pundits have missed, and have written some political opinions which eventually became mainstream, not because I wrote I them, but the fact that I wrote them before a lot of the paid folks says something I think. For example, I predicted long before the mainstream pundits, that Obama would get the Democratic nomination for president.

I posted a lot of photos once up a time, and I plan to start that up again. I think I'm going to post some poetry and other kind of writing. Why not? Interestingly, the photo that has gotten the most hits is the photo of Kristi standing next to the life sized statue of Mr. Wardlow, the world's tallest man.

Well, I have to get off this computer right now. I at least wanted to scribble a little something to commemorate the day. But I do plan on keeping this going, at least for now.