Happy Belated Anniversary to My Web Log

I have to take stuff to work in the morning for "Treat Friday," and I have to go in early because an event there starts at 7:30 and I won't be able to park and bring stuff in the building and everything if I'm not there super early. I got started late because I had no wi-fi until an hour ago. I could have typed something in Word, I suppose, but I was making a cherry dump cake. So there are all my excuses for having no time to write tonight because I need to get onto bed a.s.a.p. I just don't want to not write something because I will break the chain that I started exactly a year ago yesterday, that is November 19, 2024. I am not sure what kind of progress I've made, but I know I have made some. Anything you do regularly and faithfully improves on some level. That is just the way things work. No matter what it is you do, if you keep at it, you improve. Others may or may not notice it, but you notice it, and you become more disciplined, more focused, more committed, and that is never a bad thing. If you want to play piano you have to practice. If you want to write you have to write. No matter what it is. If you want to learn a language you have to study and then you have to practice. There is nothing you attempt that does not improve with practice. For a long time I did not know that "blog" was a corruption of the term "web log." Once I knew that was what it was, it took a lot of the intimidation out of it for me. I didn't like the term "blog," and I didn't want to consider what I did "blogging." I was writing, not "blogging." Now, I was in the practice of writing little essays or articles, not just keeping a journal or a log, so I wanted to think of myself as a writer, not a "blogger." It felt beneath me or something. Now, I don't care. It's a log. A journal. Essays, poems, songs, thoughts, notes, you can call it what you like or call it nothing. You can like it or not, but the reality is, I missed the anniversary, which was yesterday. In two minutes I had hoped to be in bed. I wish I could eat that cherry dump cake right now, but it is not for me to eat; it is for me to take to work for "Treat Friday." I need to try to get some sleep because I have set the alarm clock a half hour earlier than usual. I don't like getting up early, but it will make everything go a lot smoother if I do, so I am going to sign off tonight. I hope everyone is having a peaceful, joyful, contented evening and I hope you have a restful night's sleep. Even though I don't know you I care about you and I hope to be a blessing. I know some people don't like my religion or my politics but I still keep right on believing what I believe because I am free to do that, as are you free to believe what you want to also. I love Jesus and Jesus loves me. He loves you too. I am now signing off as my cogs turn; reflections on the cosmos, goodnight.