An apology is in order, along with an explanation.
When I first created this blog, 3-1/2 yrs ago, I would only write and post a blog entry, on average, a couple of times a month, and would then manually copy that posting over to Facebook since this WP blog didn’t have any actual readers. After leaving USPS in the fall of 2014, I stopped posting to this WP blog, and just started writing my blog entries directly on FB, where some of my friends actually read some of the stuff I post.
Over the course of the past two years of being in “semi-retirement” (while pursuing my Master’s degree at Saint Thomas), I started writing more and more, averaging now, about a post a day. The problem was, I would write these posts on FB, but wouldn’t take the time to transfer them to my actual WP blog website (the site you’re on now).
Over the past few months, I’ve extracted some ~130 FB posts and actually loaded them here (mostly from May-November of 2015). I’ve also extracted a couple of hundred more from the same timeframe (including Jan thru June of this year) which still need to be manually loaded onto this WP website. It’s quite a cumbersome task as you might expect, and because of a complete lack of motivation and/or the size of this effort, it’s being done in spurts, with the end result that it’s looks to be like a never ending of a “catch-up” battle.
I spoke to a friend a few days ago, and of course, they mentioned the obvious – start extracting/loading my most current FB postings, and work backward. That way, my audience (you reading this posting) will see what I’ve recently wrote and is probably “current” and therefore, more interesting than something written six months or a year ago.
So, that’s my explanation, and here is my apology. I’ve drawn in a listener (reader) and need to apologize to them because this WP blog is not as “current” as I would like it to be. I know they might say “no worries”, or, in her new southern manner: “It’s not like I’m going to get the vapors from this, you know.”, but I still feel the need to apologize to them – because they took the effort to subscribe (my first subscriber) to this blog/website, and I feel I’ve let them down (for having let my blog lapse).
