Saturday, December 04, 2004
Slight Detour
Welcome
to the inaugural night of "Slight Detour" coming to you from beautiful
Sandpoint, Idaho. I cannot take credit for the title. That honor goes
to my brother Jim, an architect, artist, cartoonist in Grants Pass,
Oregon. It's because of Jim and his cartoon series called "Slight
Detour" that I have initiated this blog.
I hope that as I learn more about this publishing process Jim's cartoons will begin to appear. At this point, I've followed the three steps to blogdom and have spent some time typing. Let's just see what comes next.
I guess the next step I'll try is to link all readers to my website, where you can find information about my two funny farm books (now three) and read some examples of my freelance writing, including an exclusive interview with actor Viggo Mortensen. So, here goes. Keep your fingers crossed. Go here: http://www.mariannelove.com
I hope that as I learn more about this publishing process Jim's cartoons will begin to appear. At this point, I've followed the three steps to blogdom and have spent some time typing. Let's just see what comes next.
I guess the next step I'll try is to link all readers to my website, where you can find information about my two funny farm books (now three) and read some examples of my freelance writing, including an exclusive interview with actor Viggo Mortensen. So, here goes. Keep your fingers crossed. Go here: http://www.mariannelove.com
Comment: 
Bluemax_36 said...
Bluemax_36 said...First turn-off
Well,
it's a baby blog, so give me a break. I've got a lot to learn about how
all this blog stuff works, and I'm hoping Jim's brains combined with
mine will help us get going on this new adventure.
Since we're in a slight-detour mode, we've got an excuse to get off course as often as we want.
Okay, maybe I've figured out one more step in the process. I mentioned that article about Viggo Mortensen in my first post and put my website, but it didn't turn into a link. So, let's try clicking here www.mariannelove.com
Hey, it worked. So, if any visitors run across this blog, try that link above.
Since we're in a slight-detour mode, we've got an excuse to get off course as often as we want.
Okay, maybe I've figured out one more step in the process. I mentioned that article about Viggo Mortensen in my first post and put my website, but it didn't turn into a link. So, let's try clicking here www.mariannelove.com
Hey, it worked. So, if any visitors run across this blog, try that link above.
Take a left
Yup,
it's fun. Two infant blog postings and they don't look too stupid, so
let's try a couple of other baby steps. I'm going to send you to another
important location. He's my favorite blogger and cranky conservative,
Mr. Oliveria. I owe this guy a lot cuz he's provided some great exposure
to my website. He also does a pretty interesting daily web journal, so
bookmark him spokesmanreview.com/blogs/nhb/
Update ten years later: As of today, 6,939 entries have appeared on "Slight Detour" since its launch Dec. 4, 2004. In the early days of blogging, I often started completely new entries, rather than continuing in the same post, so that bumped the numbers up a bit. You'll see the first three entries on Dec. 4, 2004, focused on experimenting on how to match up the entities of the cyber world and to see if it all actually worked.
A lot of time spent writing has led to this milestone. I discovered, with time and feedback, that I truly loved sitting down for an hour a day and coming up with something out of my head or from my various camera lenses.
Posting on this blog for nearly every day over the past decade has turned into a delightful, sometimes challenging daily discipline. I think I may have missed posting six or seven times from 2004 to 2014. Two of those absences occurred when we moved to Selle in 2006 and had to wait for our Internet to be hooked up.
By 2012, the regularity of the blog appearing at just after 8 a.m. each day turned into a necessity, especially thanks to my friend and head daily editor, Helen Newton. By that time, if I was running late, I could always count on an email around 8:08 or so from Helen asking, "Is anything wrong out there?"
And, so in the fall of 2012 when my sister Laurie contracted viral encephalitis and we spent the night transporting her to and sitting with her dressed in space suits at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, I left her room around 7:30 a.m. and scurried to the visitors' room to call Helen and to explain why the blog would not appear that day.
She was sworn to secrecy since, at the time, we did not know if Laurie had a contagious variety of encephalitis and did not want to alarm the community. Turned out she did not, which was especially fortunate because she's an elementary teacher.
This morning I wish to thank Helen and assistant editor Cherry of Sunnyside and everyone who has stuck with this experiment for the past ten years. That includes you, Julie of Orlando, formerly of Selle.
It's been a fun run, and I so appreciate the folks who inspired me to get started---younger brother Jim and Blogfather Dave. And, I'm especially thrilled these days that blogs have become so common in our social media that-----like the GonZOGa learning curve, people have gradually learned that this medium is not a "BLOB."
Now, for more Jim Tibbs cartoons. Besides his artwork, Jim is passionately involved in hang gliding, so much so that he even produced a national hang gliding calendar with his cartoons.
He has also illustrated some children's books and continues to design beautiful structures in Southwestern Oregon.
I've always envied and admired Jim's talents, even more so this morning when it's so apparent that his cartoons, penned a decade or more ago, remain timeless, thought-provoking and very funny.
And, one more thing, since this lady had a blessing in disguise, I'd like to round out the anniversary blog with a video about Pope Francis, and, of course, featuring Sandpoint's Cindy Wooden who, along with photographer Paul Haring, explains the highlights of her recently published book Pope Francis: A Guide to God's Time.
Feel free to pass along the good news of Cindy's book (available at www.amazon.com), featuring a truly wonderful Pope.
A lot of time spent writing has led to this milestone. I discovered, with time and feedback, that I truly loved sitting down for an hour a day and coming up with something out of my head or from my various camera lenses.
Posting on this blog for nearly every day over the past decade has turned into a delightful, sometimes challenging daily discipline. I think I may have missed posting six or seven times from 2004 to 2014. Two of those absences occurred when we moved to Selle in 2006 and had to wait for our Internet to be hooked up.
By 2012, the regularity of the blog appearing at just after 8 a.m. each day turned into a necessity, especially thanks to my friend and head daily editor, Helen Newton. By that time, if I was running late, I could always count on an email around 8:08 or so from Helen asking, "Is anything wrong out there?"
And, so in the fall of 2012 when my sister Laurie contracted viral encephalitis and we spent the night transporting her to and sitting with her dressed in space suits at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d'Alene, I left her room around 7:30 a.m. and scurried to the visitors' room to call Helen and to explain why the blog would not appear that day.
She was sworn to secrecy since, at the time, we did not know if Laurie had a contagious variety of encephalitis and did not want to alarm the community. Turned out she did not, which was especially fortunate because she's an elementary teacher.
This morning I wish to thank Helen and assistant editor Cherry of Sunnyside and everyone who has stuck with this experiment for the past ten years. That includes you, Julie of Orlando, formerly of Selle.
It's been a fun run, and I so appreciate the folks who inspired me to get started---younger brother Jim and Blogfather Dave. And, I'm especially thrilled these days that blogs have become so common in our social media that-----like the GonZOGa learning curve, people have gradually learned that this medium is not a "BLOB."
Now, for more Jim Tibbs cartoons. Besides his artwork, Jim is passionately involved in hang gliding, so much so that he even produced a national hang gliding calendar with his cartoons.
He has also illustrated some children's books and continues to design beautiful structures in Southwestern Oregon.
I've always envied and admired Jim's talents, even more so this morning when it's so apparent that his cartoons, penned a decade or more ago, remain timeless, thought-provoking and very funny.
And, one more thing, since this lady had a blessing in disguise, I'd like to round out the anniversary blog with a video about Pope Francis, and, of course, featuring Sandpoint's Cindy Wooden who, along with photographer Paul Haring, explains the highlights of her recently published book Pope Francis: A Guide to God's Time.
Feel free to pass along the good news of Cindy's book (available at www.amazon.com), featuring a truly wonderful Pope.
