Funny thing about owning your own web blog.  You can post whatever you want and when you want.  If people don’t like what you write on a blog, then you have the choice whether or not to visit it in the future.

This is not a political blog, or a sports blog or even a work related blog.  It’s my blog and if you don’t like this, don’t come back.  Simple as that.  I started this blog several years ago and have relaunched it several times since then.  When I was in an aggressive battle against depression, my counselor suggested that I start my own blog as a place to write down my thoughts and get them out in the open instead of keeping them bottled up inside.

Although I do work in radio there has never been a time where I have promoted this web blog while on the air.  Not once and I never will.  Its not associated with the station at all, regardless of what some other people thing.  My boss and I had a discussion about this blog the other day and he couldn’t stop laughing about it and the stories I told about work last week.

If I have something to say, I will say it here because I can.  If someone doesn’t like it, they can start their own.  Head on over to godaddy.com, purchase your domain name and find a good web-host.  Its actually therapeutic at times because you can really get a lot of stuff off your chest.

Having worked for the station for the past 23 years, I know my limits and I won’t do anything to embarrass my boss or the company but as he told me on the phone, he is a firm believer of the First Amendment.  I may not like what you have to say but I’ll respect it because of Freedom of Speech.  Unless you slander me then its balls to the wall.  I will hunt you down and find you through an IP address.  I’ve found people’s home addresses before and often wonder what they would think if I showed up on their front door step just to say Hi?

Speaking of work, its been real busy as of late.  Not with the actual radio work, but with website designs.  I’ll be launching another new website later this week for a Perryville man running for judge in Perry County, MO.  I’m exciting with what I’ve been able to do so far and I know the guy is really pleased with it.  Can’t wait to launch it later.  Once it goes live, I’ll post a link here.

No one has stepped forward yet about my YJC website which doesn’t surprise me.  I would really be shocked if anyone does by August 2011.  There will be a lot of turnover around Chester High School during that summer.  A search will begin soon for a new superintendent as the current one will be retiring at the end of the 2010-2011 school year.  I think her contract expires in late June.  My web-host contract will expire on August 1, 2011.  As much as I’ve put into that website and have treated it like a child, I can’t wait for that chapter of my life to close.  I’m ready to begin another chapter and of course, that will include this web blog.

Well, time to shut off this new Dell Mini laptop and get some sleep.  Can’t wait to see what the rest of this week brings.  Plus Wednesday, its chicken and dumplings day at the local smorgasbord.  Just don’t tell the cardiologist.

See ya After Midnight…

I’ve been maintaining a high school website since 1998 but that chapter will come to an end in August 2011.  It”s just time to move on and do something else.

From what I’ve been told, there will be a lot of people disappointed in my decision and I’m sure some people will even hate me more than what they do already but its those same people who bitch and complain about the website all the friggin time and its finally gotten old.

The final nail in my decision came around Tuesday when I got blasted for not posting basketball scores from a tournament the Chester sophs were playing in.  Funny thing is I didn’t know this tournament was even being played or where it was being played at.

Some people in this community feel they can bitch and complain about anything they want to and when they want to.  If you want to complain about my full time job, then that’s fine.  That’s what I get paid to do, but when it comes to the YJC website, everyone including myself volunteer our time.  I haven’t made one penny off that website since I started it back in 1998.  As a matter of fact, I’ve lost a lot of money on it because of fees and other costs associated with it but that doesn’t matter to some people.  They just like to bitch and bitch and bitch.  They will bitch even louder once the word about the future of the website really gets out.

I’m sure the superintendent will be happy too although I will run the website about a month longer than she will be here but I’m sure she is smiling from ear to ear about this.  The website she started for the district and CHS will be here after she leaves and after I turn off the server for the final time.  I will have more to say about this situation after she leaves town for good.

I’m getting to word out now just in case someone would be interested in stepping up and taking over the website but that person would have to give up a lot of their free time to maintain it.  I’d be surprised though if anyone did step up because it is time consuming.

My dad will turn 73 years old later this year and I’m wanting to spend more time with him instead of always inside a gym.  If he should beat me to the grave, then I’ll be alone because I do not have any brothers or sisters.  I’m not ready for that and want to make sure I won’t have any regrets.  If people don’t understand, I really don’t care.

Also, I need to concentrate more on my health.  I have the funny feeling that something more is wrong with me than just my heart.  I thought I pulled a muscle in my lower back a week ago but that should have healed by now but it hasn’t.  Every time I get a pain in my lower back, I can’t help but think of my Mom and her battle against pancreatic cancer.  It started in her lower back and three months later she was gone.  I’m not saying it is but the thought always crossed my mind when I feel a pain in my lower back.

Ever since I made the decision that the next school year will be my last with the website, I have slept like a baby.  The past three nights I have slept more than 10 hours each night.  Talk about having the weight of the world lifted off your shoulders.

I hope people understand why I made this decision and will appreciate all of the hard work I’ve put in to this website.  I’m sure there will be a lot of people upset and will hate me.  The old days, I would really be concerned.  Now… I don’t give a damn.

See ya After Midnight…