Ok. Welcome to my new world. My home away from home...though I am now and will likely be home when most of these go down from my brain to my e-paper.

Let's officially start this first blog with a second paragraph regarding what brought us here today.

You and me. Crap, the actual thought came out in a third paragraph. Oh well.

Know it or not, we have a connection. Every time from now on that you read one of my "globs" (i don't like the word blog) we will be connected in a special way. Before I forget, there will also allegedly be ads that are posted along my pages. "Click them out" once in a while and I'll actually get some earnings from this joint. And by joint I mean a gathering place...and in this case this website. Don't worry, I'll give regular proceeds to charity and I'll keep you globbed on progress thereof.

Back to our connection. You and me.

I started writing "notes" on Facebook back in October. Thanks to J-Dub for the inspiration. He said that my powers of randomness could be used for good. I did not believe him. But he was right. I got a lot (3 comments) of good feedback and people seemed to be entertained by my rants. So today, eight months later, my brother Josh tells me that people can make money from globbing. I did not believe him. But he too is apparantly correct. So here I go. Randoming away for your entertainment. And for our connection.

Most of the below came in part from a previous FB posting. So my apologies to those that are experiencing the rest as a quasi reread. There will be many more reasons to return in the future. Newness, funniness, perspective, and most of all randomness. Life is too short to be planned out all the time. So stick with me on my journies. I'll likely do a post every day. But I will at least do a post every 3.4 days. That works out to nine per month.

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Believe it or not these notes are a great outlet for me. I feel better getting stuff out of my head. At the end of it all, sharing stuff with others hopefully gives some perspective of what goes on in another person's head. And if just one or five people say something positive, that's cool by me.

The more I thought about writing, the more I liked the idea. I have considered doing some kids books in the past. My daughter loves reading before bedtime and it always amazes me when other parents have many of the exact same kids books on their shelves. I guess good stuff catches on. The idea of it all led me to revisit some of my past notes on Facebook and run some statistics since inception to get a feel for whether or not I should continue.

Here is what my revisit uncovered for me.
- 83% of my notes were in some way responded to by others
- Only 20% of my Political Haiku Commentaries - an underperforming weekly entry - were responded to by more than one person
- If you do not include the underperforming PHC's, 98% of my notes elicited responses
- The average number of responses in non-PHC notes was 8.2
- Over 90 unique friends posted comment replies to my notes

Based on these results, I thought I might have something worth sharing. And some people might actually continue to read what I write. That's pretty much it.

P.S. 84% of the time, if you use a number in conjunction with making a statement, it becomes more believable for most people.

P.P.S. 100% of the numbers in this note (including the 84% influence of using a number) were either completely contrived or very rough but mostly fake estimates. Except for the 100% part at the beginning of this P.P.S. - That is true.

See what I mean about the influence of a few numbers on believability?

Regardless. Here are a few words that might influence what types of ads you see on my page. Star Wars, Vacation, Bahamas, Cool Cars, Poker, Recipes, Chocolate.