As of that last post (and after seeing it's disappointing statistics), I feel safe to assume that everyone will leave my blog well enough alone as long as I don't post links to it on other sites. That's good. So now I can look at this as more of a journal type of thing. I can go ahead and put the personal stuff up all the time with no filter, because I am the only one that will bother to read it.
It may seem weird that I even put it on the internet at all. I neither have an audience, nor do I want one, so clearly it would be a much better deal to keep this somewhere a little more private, like on actual paper, or at worst, in a file on my computer. But that's not what I want. I want this to be immediately available to as many people as possible, so when something epic happens (good or bad) and my name is in headlines (or in very small print in the obituary section) they can do a simple Google search and get some of the backstory.
Of course, my internet presence does not flatter me, and is not necessarily an accurate depiction of how I live my life in the real world, but if anyone is finding this for the aforementioned reasons, it doesn't matter. They don't need to know the real me, just a mental image of the "real" me, based on what they can gather with what few (though, powerful) resources they have.
From now on, this is no longer a show. I'm am not putting on for an audience. This is for me and for posterity, and for the 7 oddballs that stumble upon this a decade from now via their wi-fi enabled brains and see it on a retina screen, which in their time will involve the actual retina.
Just for the sake of continuity and the small chance the a real, living person actually reads my blogs even when I don't share them on social networks, you can still have the 50 points for reading this. I'm not necessarily sure who you are, but I love you.
JOSH, THE SHERM
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