Getting The Most Out Of Your Blog

So I suppose that if you want to get the most out of your blog, then you need to know what the "most" really is.

For a lot of people out there getting the most from their blog would mean making the most money or getting the most visitors (so that they can make the most money). It could also be getting the most readers or getting the most comments.

For a very few, getting the most out of their blog is nothing more and nothing less than getting the most enjoyment. There is not necessarily any monetary return on their investment. Rather they are looking to enjoy the time that the spend online and to get a return of happiness.

Me? You ask me what getting the most out of my blog means? Well, I think that getting the most out of this blog is just keeping it up and posting stuff that has meaning on some level to me. How am I doing? Well, lets just say I could be doing better and I could be doing a lot worse.

Flavor Injector

Have you ever used a flavor injector? You know, one of those little things used to inject flavor into roasts, pork chops, and other yummy meat products?

Personally, I just love to use my flavor injector. Even when there is no realy need for it I like to get it out and inject some of my favorite spices into whatever I happen to be cooking. My personal preference is a mix of steak seasonings, olive oil and just a touch of balsamic or malt vinegar. I use different pre-made steak seasoning mixes. There are a lot of good ones to choose from and I am a bit too lazy to go through the trouble of learning how to make a good mix all by myself.

It also goes good with chicken and other poultry (though personally I don't know a lot of people out there eating swan 3x a week). Though I do love me some duck when I can get it.

Until nexts time, have fun playing with your flavor injector.

Bungee Cords

It sure seems like I can never get my hands on enough bungee cords. You know, the little stretchy cords with hooks on either end. Take a look at the picture already.

It seems that anytime you have to move anything there just isn't a good way to hold it down or keep in place or keep it from coming apart. These little buggers sure do come in handy.

Case in point: We recently decided to go and visit family in another state. Naturally, being the cheapskates that we are we accepted their invitation to sleep downstairs (which, by the way is much nicer than staying in any hotel). But we needed to bring bedding and so forth because the kids all have their special stuff that they want when they sleep. Enter the bungee. It quickly comes to the rescue holding together everything that either has no straps, or for which the straps broke 2 minutes after purchase.

Thanks bungee!

Woot Woot PR2

Okay, so it may not really be anything to write home about (but since I'm already home I guess that point is moot), but merry old Pinch of Thought has reached PR 2.

Fact is I'm pretty happy about that. I haven't been running this particular blog all that long and I have done ZERO and I do mean zero SEO on it (not that you can do all that much with the blogger platform anyway). Still hitting page rank 2 in only a couple of months without trying brings a smile to my face.

I have other blogs that I've been working my tail off on and haven't had any kind of results. So I guess I should stop trying to do things right and just keep doing things wrong.

Bridal Shoes

So my niece got married not too long ago and we went to her open house about a week back. Frankly it was one of the most boring affairs that I've been to in quite a while, but it was good to see my sister again. We haven't been all that close for a lot of years and it was very nice to get together.

Anyway during all the preparation there was much talk about bridal gear. Weddings, of course, entail a whole lot of different things, among which are, of course bridal shoes. My niece, unfortunately, did not purchase anything terribly fancy but over at Zappos they have a very nice selection of different shoes and things which I wish she had found. (Or anywhere else for that matter). There are plenty of places to purchase bridal gear out there I'm kind of surprised they didn't do much looking online.

It looks like I am finally entering that stage where all my nieces and nephews are going to be graduating school (or starting school as it were) and hitting the marriage path. It makes me feel old. But since we only tend to see each other at weddings and funerals at least we'll be seeing more of each other (yes it is a good thing.)

Who Is Kate Daniels?

Guest Post By Carrie Sund

Kate Daniels is the lead character in a series of books by a husband and wife team, who write as Ilona Andrews. Kate stars in Magic Bites, Magic Burns and Magic Strikes. She is a sassy mercenary working for more than one team in the magical community she plays in.

Kate lives in a world where technology and magic are at war. Kate is there to clean up the magical messes that are inevitably produced when the magic is in control. In her world magic comes in waves, when the tech is up very little magic can be used and when magic is up most technology is rendered useless.

Kate carries a magical blade that often craves a feeding on magical blood. Kate also wields a smart mouth that nearly gets her killed more than a few times. She is rather inept at relationship building. Her past has taught her to run and keep running which is hard on making friends. She was taught to never get close to someone, never show off her power and never let even a drop of her blood be found. As your read the three books you slowly learn why Kate has been taught to fear being found, her very life is in danger if the wrong people find out who she is.

As Kate stays in one place a while and makes a few friends she realizes she rather likes having friends. She begins to realize it even thought it is hard to have friends, as she puts them in danger all the time, it is well worth the trouble. She has a were-hyena, a were-panther and a were-wolf she really cares for by the end of the third book.

Then there is the Beast Lord Curran, a were-lion in charge of all the weres in Atlanta. Kate and Curran have a romantic relationship…..well a messed up romantic relationship. In the three books the relationship is building but it is hard to tell if anything will come of it. All you really know is they care for each other and show it like a couple of 12 year olds. In each book they team up in the pursuit of a magical criminal and you can see the pain in them as they watch each other nearly die.

Kate has incredible power that is not fully revealed in the three books. Each book shows more of the power she has stored up in her, but I have the distinct feeling that there is more to come. Kate grows up a lot in the three books and comes to realize what is truly important to her. She risks her own life by using her power to save her friends. I have been reading a lot lately and I find enjoyed these books more than most.

Why Are Funny Pictures of Cats so Funny?

So I did a bit of browsing around the web and found a bunch of funny pictures of cats. Links only as I don't own the pics and have no funny cat of my own.

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So my question is why we find such pictures amusing? Why are cats (and other animals) so darned funny?

In a way, many of these photos could be construed as cruel or mean spirited though they have been posted only in hopes of brightening our days. I believe that funny pictures of cats are funny simply because they let us know how good we have it.