First post of the new year..... ... ......

Wow. There's some pressure. The first post of the new year can set the tone for the whole year. A good one, and the posts will flow all year, you will be witty, and funny, sarcastic, bright, appealing...

Or it can be a train wreck that piles up endlessly. The three people who read your blog struggle to stick with you, and slowly drop away. You find yourself alone in a bloggy desert. Believe me, alone in a desert is not a good thing. I mean, sure, you can be alone in the desert, with your air conditioned jeep in four wheel drive, with a cooler plugged into the cigarette lighter filled with Mexican beer and fresh salsa, the radio playing Linkin Park, Elvis Costello and Louis Armstrong, gallons of ice water. Then life is not all bad. Although, I would argue, still too damn hot.

But alone in the blogging desert...you can scream and not even the cacti will hear you. You post mediocre pictures that feature cut off heads, thumbs and camera straps hiding the scenery, and photos of your own eye. You end up blogging about visits to thimble museums. You write words and read them over and over, make up imaginary blogger friends and write comments from them. Ah, but your blog is such a train wreck that even your imaginary blog friends will slowly back away. The imaginary comments fade into nothingness and lint.

Huh...I bet you are rethinking the first post of the year on your own blogs now...Maybe you are lucky and haven't committed a train wreck post yet...