"Happy 100"

This is my 100th blog write. When I started, I thought, what will I write about? I didn't want mine to be about the family vacation or ten steps to the perfectly mowed lawn. 

It took a while but I soon picked up steam. Now that I am more comfortable with not working full time, I might get to my second hundred sooner than I did the first one hundred. My goal this next year is to somehow improve The Bailey Post. More readers, a better layout, more pictures when appropriate and some links are just some of the things I want to incorporate. Some writer's will get into the “make the site look good” thing before they settle into what they want to write about. I wanted to be sure I was committed to writing the blog and that I would have something to say before I did anything else.  If you have any ideas I would love to hear them. I am pretty good at the computer but not "Linda" good. 

For years I had people tell me, "Hey, you write well you should write a novel. I tried. I did 3 chapters about a kid growing up listening to his Philco radio at night to the great Harry Caray and his broadcasts of both the Kansas City Athletics and later the St. Louis Cardinals. How those long, hot, Nebraska summer nights were made bearable by listening to Harry's mangling the English language and his wonderful "Holy Cow’s" How the boy would close his eyes and visualize his being either at Sportsman's Park (Cardinals) or Municipal  Stadium (A's). Roger Maris, Bob Cerv, Norm Siebert, Gus Zernial and many others. The boy falls in love with baseball, Harry Caray and most of all with sports announcing. The kid grows up to become a baseball announcer and is finally teamed up with Harry Caray in Chicago doing Cubs games. 

I thought it would make a great boy grows up story, combined with pursue your dreams story. But after 3 chapters I realized that while it might be a good idea I was bogged down in details and in the end I realized I wasn't very good at telling a story. So I copyrighted the basic story line (in case I become a good story teller some day) and went back to social commentary and satire in my blogs. I have printed off each blog entry and have been compiling them in a big binder. Why? I don't know really. There are a gazillion bloggers out there and many are professionals so my humble efforts fall into the memoir (at best) category that maybe my son would someday want to look at.

My next blog is going to be about Sigmund Freud's concept of the "Freudian Slip" as it pertains to both Romney, and Obama.

Thanks for reading some of my first 100.

WB