Isn't My Brick Wall Pretty?

(via Dr. Ilia)

I don’t build bird houses or play with tools in the garage. I don’t know anything about cars. I don’t watch football or hockey or any television whatsoever. This blog is my sandbox. This is where I go to tinker. I figure I’ll teach myself how to build a website and if I’m lucky I’ll get some free writing advice on the side. That’s my angle.

I’m maxed out on blog writing advice today. I’ll probably be back to it again tomorrow, but for today I’m spent. I’ve been working backwards through the archives of Copyblogger.com for 2 solid weeks now and made it clear back to March. I have no idea how far back it goes. I wish I could sort it in chronological order. Why does everything have to be reversed? What are they hiding?

Anyways, I surrendered when I got to a post on keyword optimization. The post included a link to Google AdWords: Keyword Tool and I said thank you, maybe later. I want to build up my audience just like the next blogger, but keyword optimization sounds an awful lot like selling out. I do enough of that dressing up in a suit and tie for work every day. (Actually, my small form of protest is I don’t wear the jacket. Pitiful, right?)

Sorry, I’m boring you. I’m not feeling strongly toward any particular subject today. I don’t even feel strongly about the 6-year old boy who they thought took off in a hot air balloon, but really he hadn’t. Why was that news again?

Last time I hit a brick wall like this one I made a list. I generally hate lists, but I didn’t want to punish you by writing about how shitty I felt. I wrote an honest list of all the things I wanted right then.

Sorry, I’m not making a list today. I don’t even have any advice. I was going to write about Pandora Radio, but that didn’t work out too well as you can see. I recommend trying out their service, but I’m not prepared to sell you on it today.