For Those Of You Who've Left Comments

The topic of today’s post will basically just be a response to recent comments left on my blog by readers. I’m doing it this way for reasons I’ll explain below. So let me get right in to the responses:

To all of you who wished my daughter Nina a happy birthday and/or left a kind remark about the picture I posted – Thank You!

But not to be too impersonal, let me respond in more detail to . . .

LA – Yes, Nina is the one on the left, her friend Frankie is on the right.

GetFlix – Grumpiness is the nicest word I could come up with at the time. Nina can be (and often is) a little stinker. She’s also sometimes a spoiled brat and a crybaby. She’s also learning the fine arts from her brother, Brady, of being disrespectful, not picking up after herself, and not listening to her parents. But Laura and I love them both. Sorry, I digressed. I have several pictures of Nina that capture a grumpy or grouchy look that she gets when she doesn’t get her way, or is upset with someone or something. We call this her Pooty Face.

To all of you who have offered congratulations on my recent Blogger Reflection Award, thank you. And thanks again to Sage for bestowing this honor on me.

V - Thanks for the words of encouragement: "As long as you're still blogging, that's all that really matters." The truth is that I'm barely blogging.

LA – I was actually surprised that Frank Murphy gave me a shout out. I too remember when Frank was K&B’s producer, and Mark & Brian’s before that. (I remember Poorman on Love Line too.)

So why am I responding to my readers’ comments here and not on the comment page where they left the comments? To tie it to an explanation of my personal blog reading and writing woes.

Here’s the thing: the company I work for began enforcing an internet use policy. This policy includes tracking of internet use by users without their knowledge. No, there is nothing illegal about this. As a member of our company's human resources management team, it would be career suicide to continue doing what I had been doing up until about two weeks ago - spending my lunch hour reading the blogs on my blog scroll and commenting on the same. Even though I would never go to a web site with content that is clearly in violation of the policy, the policy also covers using the internet for non-business reasons. There is absolutely no business related reason for me to be on any of my blog sites, regardless of the content or subject of the post.

Here's the other thing: my wife Laura really, really doesn't like my blogging habit. She has disagreed with my blogging since day one. So, since I can't blog from work, and I am very limited to when I can blog from home - basically when Laura is out of the house, like right now as I'm writing this (as opposed to when you're reading it); I can almost never blog. It pains me that I haven't read any of your posts for nearly two weeks. But as time allows I will catch up with my reading, try to leave a comment, and occasionally post something here for you to read.

All my best, Danny