Sour Swinger Predominantly follows my Army & Iraq Deployment. Also has some Geek, School, and other talk.

My cousin Vicky once told me that only 1 in 10 blogs ever make passed the two month mark. I thought that was interesting. They say the same thing about businesses. Wonder if there is any correlation on why? Unfortunately some of my friends’ blogs have kept with this statistic.

Running a blog takes time and constant dedication. It took me a bit to get into the swing of things but eventually set up a great habit during school. Every morning before class, I’d check out the blogosphere, and try to write a post if I could.  Usually dedicating 1 to 2 hours for this process.  Since summer I found my schedule (and internet availability) thrown way out of whack. This inconsistency has dramatically lowered the number of posts I do.

Phil Zajicek
I met Phil through my Uncle’s nanny.  Phil is a successful professional cyclist who races with Health Net.  He set up a blog back in March 2006 for fans to follow his cycling career.  What was once a healthy blog has now become no more.  I talked with Phil in May and asked why he hasn’t posted to his blog.  I shouldn’t post the answer…but….screw it.  In short his fiance, Liz, did not like the idea of him blogging and put her foot down.  He’s no longer allowed to blog.  Judging by how he answered (Liz was in the vicinity), I believe this was a sore topic between the two.  What’s bad is that Liz found out about his blog because of me.  I’m sure she would have eventually learned of it, however I feel like the guilty messenger.  Had I known what her reaction was going to be, I most certainly would not have said anything.

Vegan For A Month
This blog was set up by friends, Eric and Brian.  It was only meant to last a month.  A bet was set on whether Brian could go vegan for a month.  Only a few posts were made about the journey and no conclusion was ever posted.  First two weeks were pretty good for the blog.  Knowing Brian, he successfully completed the bet.

Nondeterministic Thoughts
Famous Steev’s blog.  Following his great success on my blog, he decided to create one of his own.  I was sad to see him go but happy to see him take the next blogging step. Unfortunately he never went anywhere with it.  He only made three posts and all back in March.  I enjoyed the two very much (One was an about me post).  Two months have gone by and all is quite there.  I most look forward to seeing a return of Steev.  My finger’s are crossed.

Refuse To Loose
My blogging influence convinced friend, Mike, to start blogging again.  I figured he would make it passed the two month mark since he used to blog all during high school.  Though he only posted 3 times back in April, he hasn’t quite hit two months since his last post though has hit two months since he started.  I’m including him here, hoping he’ll realize its time to make a post.  Lets go Mike!  You got till the end of the month till your blog is considered closed for business.

Another friend of mine, Crusher, has decided to start a blog of his very own named Refuse To Loose. He’s blogged in the past during pre-college years. He’s always been a HUGE sports fan and he states he’ll be doing a lot of game reviews and the whole sports world to include Nascar. Out of all us Geeks in computer science, Crusher is definitely the biggest sports guy.  Looking forward to the first one.

Two of my friends have decided to go vegan for a month. The one, Brian decided to go through with this for a 20 dollar bet. Yes he’s crazy but then again he is Irish. The other, Eric, is there more for support. Eric is already a vegetarian so will only have to make a few changes to his diet. Brian, on the other hand, will have to make some significant changes. I already can’t imagine not eating meat, but to add the psycho vegan philosophy…utterly ridiculous. Brian and Eric both set up a blog to document their processes. They already posted a recipe for vegan chili. Supposedly it didn’t taste too bad.