“I have to name you in my blog.”

“What?”

“I have to give you a name, yaknow an online one. I don’t use real names on my blog and since you’ll probably be blog fodder for me at some point I have to find something to call you so the people that read my stuff know I’m talking about you. I can’t just call you “the new boyfriend” forever, it’s too long and not really catchy.”

“Um.”

“Seriously, you gotta help me out here…this is really important.”

“Ok, well my friends used to call me ‘Harold T’, would that work?”

“Uh, no, that’s not quite what I’m going for. See my ex was known as ‘The Hotness’ in my writings, it’s gotta be catchy yaknow.”

“Well what about ‘Ferrrari’ since I’m like so exotic and sporty? Or ‘Horse’ ha ha?”

“No, no that won’t work…you’re killin’ me here…this is serious bloggin’ business dude.”

“In college when I was playing baseball they used to call me ‘Kranker’ because of my hitting a lot of home runs…”

“That makes you sound like a drug addict. I can’t have you sounding like that…jesus…my mother reads this thing!”

“What about ‘Frank n’ Beans’?”

“Uh no, why don’t we just put this on the back burner…think about it some more and get back to me would you?”

“Ok. But I still think Frank n’ Beans is pretty funny…”

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So as you can see by the above conversation between the new boyfriend and I the jury is still out on naming naming him…but as soon as we can come up with something that doesn’t make him sound like a 90-year old drug addict, barnyard animal, or a cheap meal you eat because you’re broke before payday I’ll do an intro post so you all can meet him

Went through my blogroll a couple days ago and realized that quite a few of my favorite bloggers have closed up shop and moved on or just simply left their blog to die (kinda like me). I’ll be the first to admit that for the most part of a year I didn’t even give this thing a second thought, which is funny since it once meant so much to me. Hopefully some of my fave bloggers will come back soon…

But for now I want to find some great new bloggers to read and add to my collection of favorites…any suggestions?

It’s been a long time folks, I can’t believe the last time I even had anything to say was in May and I didn’t say much! My life has changed so much in the past year – 2009 was heaven and hell for me and I can’t possibly fit everything in that happened onto one post or even a thousand posts.

But I digress.

It’s time for a fresh start, a new life and a return to the world of daily writing to the internets that I loved for so long. A hiatus from the online world wasn’t my first choice but it was something that had to happen I think. For a long time I pounded away on these keys on a daily basis, creating content and making connections with people from every walk of life. It did become overwhelming sometimes and soon I realized it was creeping into my every waking moment. I was no longer living my life except through a computer screen.

So I took a year off, and did some living. Most of it wasn’t pretty…in fact some of it was downright terrible but I did it and lived through it and now feel that I’m rebalanced and ready to come back to a true passion of mine- this place. I’ve changed, you’ve all changed, the world has changed but I’m sure that in spite of all the changing that’s gone on I’m ready to come back and bullshit with the internets once more.

Time to get this place back in ship shape. To those who are faithful and are reading this now I thank you for diggin my words so much that you’re still around, to the new readers I say get ready, and to everyone I just wanna say AIS is back and open for business so hang on tight and lets enjoy the ride

Well the day is almost over but today is my blogoversary! Ironically enough I’ve had plenty to say for four years but I’m trying write this post and I don’t really have much to say about it *chuckle*

It’s been a good time though – raised some money for charity, gave some cool stuff away and ranted and raved about all sorts of stupid crap. Here’s to another four years of filling the internet with my useless ramblings

Here’s something to peek at if you have a spare moment – The Million Blog List! These folks are trying to see how long it will take to get 1 million bloggers to list themselves on their site. I went ahead and put myself on the other day and I was the 2,252nd blogger to jump on the wagon. I’m hoping they reach their goal, it’s a neat idea…

Plus you can snag this nifty badge for your blog:

In their words:

It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence. This is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on our site. Will it work? We think so. The experiment is to see how long will it take. What do you think? take our poll. We started April 10th, 2008.
-Million Blog List