how to experience a life

much like the song "How to Save a Life" by The Fray, i will now present you with thoughts which will probably not help you experience a life.

the people in the Blogger department at Google need to change something. when signing up for a blog, the second step requires the would-be blogger to choose (1) what the blog will be called and (2) where the blog will be located, or the web address. as someone who has decided to try his hand (or hands... because typing is much easier that way) at this bloggin' stuff on a whim and has established the precedent of being less than creative, these were tall orders to be undertaken all at once.

tackling the first task, i reviewed some of the blogs of friends or acquaintances to get some ideas. i saw that in some cases, blog titles were smart, witty and said something about the writer*. good stuff. i also observed that blog titles need not necessarily be those things, or anything really, to be good titles.** also good stuff.

these very empirical observations got me nowhere. so i scrapped that line of thinking and decided to make it something about myself or something that i like. my first idea went to my favorite quote which happens to be from a hymn but was first made aware to me through a song by Anathallo. the quote is "all the fitness He requires is to feel your need of Him." so i wanted to do something like "Thoughts on Fitness" but i thought that there would, inevitably, be someone out there who didn't get the allusion even if it was explained and come looking for tips on vitamin supplements.

i also thought about using a favorite song title/lyric (other than the previous) in the title-creation process and since my favorite band is the Dave Matthews Band, i entertained ideas like "Life on Grey Street" or "Under the Dreaming Tree." i discounted those ideas on account of them not being authentic and representative of me.

which brings me to my final line of thinking which began with camping. y'all know i love camping. i have often thought, and recently said, that camping (or doing any activity) is not always fun unless you have the right group of people at the right place at the right time. even still, those people and those circumstances mean a hill of beans unless the experience that you have with them is a memorable one. therefore i believe that it's the experience which we should treasure. so that's that.

oh and it was also hard to pick out what goes before the ".blogspot.com" in the URL. but that isn't nearly as important as the blog title. i was always taught that, in writing, if you have one argument that is stronger than another, you are to present your weaker argument first so that you can end on a strong point. i will have none of that tonight.

see y'all later

holler back

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what i do(n't) do at work...
a contract with Manish
"Christmas" iff "Thanksgiving" = past

*Ben Humphries and Brad Phillis (finding theoPHILUS, by brad PHILLIS... think about it people) are probably totally unaware that i have pubbed their blogs. also, is it me or does the asterisk look awkward inside of the period at the end of a sentence? is that the correct placement?

**neither Jenn nor Casey know i pubbed theirs either. i put the asterisks on the outside this time, just for kicks (on route 66 perhaps?)