Is it Year in Review or Year End Review? Either way, let me warn you before we get started. I should have said a bottle of Whine, one of those big magnum suckers, because if you read further you are going to get drenched in it. You’ve been warned, proceed at your own risk: I was reading some of my old posts the other day and came across one I made in my first year of blogging. It stated that…
Life has been quite busy lately and I haven’t written anything in many months. No writing done on my 22 works in progress. No short stories written. No Kindle Vella episodes. And certainly no blog posts. Hell, I have hardly even written Facebook update statuses. So, I told myself today, just write something! Write a measly blog post at least! I went to WordPress to do just that and ended up watching the cursor blink for ten minutes straight. Nothing…
Not those kind of dreads! BTW, that’s my friend Liz Kidder. She’s a kick ass thru-hiker and an accomplished dreads artist. Sometimes I’ll bring up my blog and hit the widget on the side of the page that brings up a random blog post I wrote. How narcissistic is that? Today’s random post was one I wrote back in 2017 that was a prompt from the below book. I had to list things that I dread during the day. When…
I was poking around in my drafts folder today and found this unfinished post from years ago. I decided to finish it. I first learned the power of the written word when I was 15 years old. You should know that I’m the kind of person that has real trouble articulating my thoughts. There is like a short circuit or a delay between my brain and my mouth. Five minutes after a conversation I often find my self thinking “I…
I’ve seen a recent trend among bloggers to post their SPAM comments. Being ever the follower, I am jumping on this train. I turned over my SPAM filter and shook it. Below is the most recent stuff to get caught in it. After each comment, I’ve offered my response. So sit back and let me pull out my pan as I fry these comments for you. 12m-15m.orgx bevmealmaker@googlemail.com Hi there to every one, the contents existing at this web page…
Nope, I’m not talking about Thanksgiving meal leftovers. I’ll tell you what I’m talking about in a minute. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year for reasons you’ll find out if you haven’t already been around this small cog for awhile. Definitely better than Christmas. This year, however, it’s just going to be my wife, the dogs, and I. No other family at all. I can’t even remember the last…
Fellow bloggers like to write posts about interesting search terms that bring people to their blogs. It’s a pretty regular feature on The Bloggess, and ACWMH just did a post of her own. This got me to wondering about my search terms. In just a little over a year I’ve had exactly two search terms that were defined. Videos showing a small cog in a bihg machine – No bihg mystery here, considering the title of my blog, despite the…
No, I didn’t finger fuck the “B” key when I typed that. It’s not my birthday. It is my BLOG BIRTHDAY! Just A Small Cog is a whopping one year old today! If you’ve even followed me a little bit then you knew it was going to be a beer up there and not cake. A few months ago I updated the About This Small Cog page after a look back to when I started. I think that section bears repeating here:…
Don’t you hate it when someone reposts an old post? Yeah, me too. Oh, guess what? I’m reposting an old post. You hate me now don’t you? Well, Slightly Dickish, isn’t in my tag line as filler. I originally posted this story as a note on my Facebook page before I started this blog. Then after I started this blog I was like “What the hell do I post now?” So I copied some of my FB notes and published them here as…