Random Thoughts Part 2

As I wind down the nite & head to bed shortly, I just wanted to get this particular subject out of my head & onto the "page" before me; while hanging out with a couple of buddies last nite & a local establishment (one a friend of over 6 & 1/2 years & the other, one of my 2 best friends & someone I've known almost 28 years), the long-time friend, who gets up way earlier for work than I & most people I know do, mentioned he had to get going soon (we had, the 3 of us, consumed some libations, & smokes, sports on TV, & loud & rowdy patrons all-around us were involved as well--but it wasn't a bar or pub, just to make that clear); he said to the other friend "and you have to get home to your wife & Steve has to go home & blog!!"); when I said that if "I don't blog tonite, I'll just do one tomorrow", this friend of over 1/2 my life looked @ me & said "then you're not a BLOGGER, you're a POSTER"--I have to say, folks, that I was a bit insulted; have I failed to live up to the rules of the blog-o-sphere? Have I not adhered to the "Code of Blogging", or the "Tao" of it, if you will?? He insisted that bloggers blog EVERY DAY; I told him I beg to differ--I don't think I am any less a blogger than my one long-time friend who does blog every day (sometimes several times in one day) because she started doing one to co-incide with a new diet & lifestyle she was embarking on (which would mainly touch on & record her continued results & progress along the way) or my sister who, with a full-time career, a radio gig tied into her career, 2 kids, a husband, a house AND a side career as a lead singer in a rock & roll band that plays out many a gig as it has progressed, blogs when she can--when I started this endeavor, I said this may be of no interest to anyone but me; I was inspired to start a blog from the 2 very same people I just described AND, maybe in a larger sense, this same friend of 28 years who always busted my chops calling my nitely Facebook posts "blogs" (all of which I stated in my very 1st one); it's probably silly & a bit shallow to take offense to his needling me about this subject last nite, but I didn't think not writing one of these every single day precludes me from being serious about it or a real "blogger" by any means; well, I think I qualify to do this as much as anyone, if for no other reason than you basically need no qualifications to do it, just a passion of some sort, a topic to expound on, a gripe or 2 or 3 to air out, something profound to say, a poem or lyric tor a story to share or something that is almost nothing but a stream-of-consciousness from your mind that needs to be set free & see the light of day (or afternoon, or night, or...); that's MY story & I'm sticking to it--and so, I say Good Nite & I will see you the next time I feel the urge to return (when-EVER that may be)