To Hell With That

I changed the URL back to what it was.

It was more trouble than it was worth.

If employers don't hire me on the basis of what I write, well, screw it.

I have only about three and a half years before I get early SS if Obama doesn't decide to do away with it.

Changed the Name for the URL

After 11 years with the old one, which had my real name in it, I decided to change the URL address for this blog:

ontheedgeblogger.blogspot.com


Given how employers these days like to check on your online presence, I decided to change things here.

Not that I am ashamed or embarrassed, but that will also reduce any kind of online harassment.

I am doing the same thing to my links blog.

Ten Years Ago Today

Yours truly joined the world of the bloggers and started this blog. It has resulted in 40,300 posts, millions of words, and several name changes to the blog's name, but I have enjoyed every minute of writing here and sharing my viewpoints, pictures, and links to reports and articles.

I had thought of doing a "best of" here, but it is simply too much work.

I intend to keep up this blog for another ten years if I am still around that long.

Post 40,000

It'll be ten years in December that I started this blog back in 2002. A lot of words have been written, a lot of article excerpts have been copied and pasted, and a lot has happened outside of the internet in those ten years.

In 2002, I was 47 years old, living in Nevada, and gainfully employed as a public school teacher. Today I am 57 years old, living with my brother and sleeping on a couch in my hometown of Medford, Oregon, and I am totally destitute while trying to get my career back on track. I am now resorting to begging online and trying to sell possessions, and neither has been successful.

In 2002 I was an ardent Democrat, but ten years later, I have been VERY jaded because I don't feel people in my situation have any voice and there is literally NO ONE to vote FOR. I have toyed with third-party politics thanks to that faker of a Democrat in the White House who would sell his mother to reach across the aisle to support policies that are ruinous for the American people.

If I am still alive in ten years, no sure thing, I will still toil on this blog. I hope I am in better financial shape then than I am now.