I never thought I would do it, blog I mean.

When I first saw the word some years back, I went to the deluxe color edition of my old faithful New World Dictionary of American Language, and nowhere in the 1,692 pages and the good Lord only knows how many entries, did I find the word.

And now I’m doing it.

Blog, for your information (and mine) is short for Web Log, a site for an individual’s comments about whatever rings his bell.

I always sort of, kind of looked down my nose at bloggers, wondering where they found all the spare time to keep up their blogs.

After a while, I realized my perception was colored by a disastrous attempt several years back to have my own web site.

What had happened was that I had a brilliant young woman teaching one of our program’s technical classes down in the middle school. She was familiar with building web sites, and she volunteered to set it up for me. 

It rocked along all right until she found a spot in another school district.

Well, let me tell you. Old dumb me couldn’t keep up with the switching, pasting, and all the other stuff that had to be done. I’d get a command like ‘once the ACK is detailed, insert data from secondary file into the binary code.’ Jiminy! All I could do was gape at the command. If I went to the help command, all I got was a standard list of questions with answers, none of which probably wouldn’t have applied to me even if I could have understood them.

I let my URL (I think that’s what they called it-or it might have been BLT as far as I know) die a peaceful death. Can you blame me?

I figured blogs were pretty much the same thing.

But, boy, was I surprised.

A good friend who always stays on the cutting edge of technology had been urging me to do one. I refused. And then one day, I saw hers online, “Praise, Prayers, and Observations”.

I complimented her, and once again she suggested I give one a shot.

So I did, and to my surprise, even a dummy like me managed to put one together. And it doesn’t take a lot of time.