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I'm Moving And It's Going To Get Messy - Comedy Open Mic Round 6

profanereviewsPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago5 min read

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As not many of you probably know, I blogged for years at www.changethetopic.com. It was where I learned to blog and although you may not believe it, I have come a long way from my first post in 2011.

I never made any real money at it but I made a lot of friends, in real life and online, and I managed to cover some of my hosting fees and costs by whoring myself out to a few people along the way.


Anyhow, I just got an email from GoDaddy, the hosting company that I have had a truly excellent experience with over the last seven or eight years, and it is time to start renewing my domains and next year my hosting will be due.
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Altogether it probably costs me $250 a year for 5 domains and the Linux hosting fees. It's $250 that I don't need to spend, now that I don't use it anymore.

So I am thinking that I will copy all of the ones that I am going to miss over here in chronological order, except for the ones I have already done.

I find it really cool to go back and read what was going on at the time and it will give me a chance to fix some things up while getting rid of the ones that I'm not as proud of. Reading some of my earlier posts, I wonder why anyone ever followed me.
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So anyhow, I am going to try to get these over here over the next month so I will be posting an unusual amount compared to what I normally post. I just wanted to let you know that I am not expecting rewards on them, I just want to keep a record of my favourite blog posts.

There are a lot of posts about me, Gerri, and the kids that I don't want to lose and I know that if I just backed them up I would never go back and look at them. The nice thing about going from Wordpress to here is that it doesn't take too much editing to get the post in there. The photo posts will be harder but not too bad.
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I'm actually really excited about this. I actually had a lady compile my entire blog a few years ago to make an ebook out of it for us to enjoy.

It never got finished.

Really, the only reason I was doing it was that a blogger friend was going through a rough patch when the US economy took a big dip. Times got really tough for her family and she wasn't someone that would accept charity so I proposed hiring her to compile and format my blog for $20/hour. After about four $200 sessions I was the one that was getting hit with hard times so it never got finished.

I guess I should have got a hold of her and see if I can get whatever she has done but I just didn't need it and then I found this haven.
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That was one that I got drawn up by Bryan and Brandon from A Beer For The Shower. They were trying to raise money for something and were offering services for cash. I wanted to get something with Smarty Pantaloons on it so this seemed like the perfect way to showcase a fictional character.

I should go back and find some of my old blogging friends and see if they would like to resurrect their blogs on the blockchain. You never know. Some may be up for something if it didn't cost them anything and they could earn some rewards.
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I guess I should warn people that there will be a lot of posts questioning a lot of things, including religion and societal norms. There will be a lot of questionable content that some of you might find in poor taste. It's nothing that I wouldn't post now, except the posts that openly mock religion. I have mellowed in my advanced age and don't find it my place to try and fight back against the church as much as I once did.

I still have the same sense of humour though, so that hasn't changed. I have often been told by friends and family that they won't read my blogs because of my use of vulgar and profane words.

My answer is always the same:

That's good, Nana. I don't want you reading my fucking blog anyways, you rotten old bitch.

I'm just kidding, of course. My Nana was dead long before I had a computer and she would have loved to read it. She's the one who really taught me how to swear.

Oh, and how to drink as well.

So, if you have any comments on why I should or should not go through with this plan, please leave them below. If, like most people, you don't care one way or t'other, feel free to just keep on chooglin'.
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