Catching Up

I haven't been on the computer for very long for several days. My eye's been giving me fits (recent cataract surgery)and I just can't look at the screen very long.

I tried to keep up with the 30 day challenge videos, but they didn't update until today. There's a great new way to post your updates to all your social networking sites, blogs etc. It's called posterous. All you do is e mail your site url and description to them and set your account up to tell it where to post all your new updates.

I also learned about Google Read. It's a great way to gather information and review it to get ideas for new articles, or you can post other articles directly to your blog using posterous. That way if you don't have time to write a blog post, your blog still has new content. Of course you leave in all the links to the original site.

I've been looking over Hub pages. That was one of the places that was suggested to post articles relating to your website and of course put links to your website, but I wanted to surf around the site myself before I followed the advise given in the 30 day challenge video. There's a lot of ways to monetize your Hub, and I see no reason to forgo that. I've nearly got everything together to post an article there.

I received a new writing challenge today. My youngest daughter is the family genealogist. She has managed to find facts and data concerning our family back several generations, but asked me to write out some stories my parents told about growing up. They were few and far between, and mostly negative stories about how their parents raised them, but my daughter feels that they will be priceless additions as insight into they way life on the frontier was, and how it affected some people. I will try to write them as objectively as possible.

No, they won't be made public. They will contain the real names of my family and will be for family records only, at least for another generation or two.

It's been a long day and I haven't accomplished much, but I'm ready to get off the computer for now. Dr. visit today revealed the eye is healing as it should, but it's still bothering me some.