Blog Babble - Viewers, Plans and Distractions

Unbelievable, my blog really hit the first 1000 Viewers! And yes, it's over 1000 views now, I took the trouble to substract the whole pingbots and the like out. *happy dance* For me this is a great thing as I just started this blog to get to know the techniques behind and as "pilot project" for my wife who wants also to start blogging now :-) Sure it would be even greater if there where some more followers and comments, but hey! I won't fall into the german "complaining on high level" thing and just be happy that I have 11 Followers and some people who comment here on a more regular base. Thanks for reading my stuff and following this blog!
Haste makes waste! More viewers and perhaps more followers will come. Especially since I'm listed in even more blogrolls now and sometimes appear on blog networking sites. BIG thanks to Colonel Shofer for his work of collecting all the different stuff from the blogosphere, House of Paincakes for the featuring in the weekly tops some times ago and aaaaall the other great (networking) sites out there.

Damn, these pills are going to make my posting somewhat different... Time to get to a dentist.

Thoughts about the future

So I just sat down and thought about the future of this blog a bit and will do some changes on it in the (near) future. The first thing you sure will have already noticed is that I changed the layout of the blog. This is because I blog and surf most of my time with my tablet:

Blog in old layout on Archos Tablet

Therefore I wanted to optimize the layout and sort my stuff a bit for better user experience (hope my visitors think as I do).
Following that I will include some few ads in the future (hope noone is offended by them, most users do have adblockers so I think it will be no real problem and i placed them below the important content). Ads because I think the reviews of products have a big impact on my views and if I get the chance to get a small cheque even once a year this would mean I could buy a product to review.

Another thing I want to change is showing some miniatures on a more regular base. Yes that means I have to paint more and perhaps getting finally one playable army painted (which opens me also the possibility to attend tournaments). But for this I have to find the time (and make my working place a bit more cat safe, I will show you why later) and the joy. Both are at the moment somewhat scarce and I hope this will change soon. Which leads me to...

Distractions

Oh yes, procrastinating from procrastination... Miniature painting and terrain crafting should be to relax and calm down after work. But with working days of sometimes 13-14 hours (which will now be less often I hope) this is rather difficult, as I come home, eat something, have a chat with my wife and fall down to sleep. Therefore I really have to force me sometimes to do stuff. Which leads again to demotivation and letting everything rest. And blogging also costs a lot of time (but if I get comments on my posts this is worth it).
Then we have some wild, six months old, maine coon tomcats. And oh my they try out things at the moment... Sometimes I think they are rabbits or guinea pigs, because they gnaw on every cable they find. And they raid our working table sometimes. Luckily most of the time with no effect, but sometimes...

Verminlord killed by tomcats

I think Frontline Gamer and his Ministry of Cats give you a glimpse of how our two bandits will look like in a year... But at the moment they look innocent as if they could not be responsible for killing my Verminlord...

Odin

Loki

If you have read everything that pured out of me: Thanks and Chapeau! This was again a more personal thing, the more objective stuff is in making. I already prepared the next part of my HowTo series for the gaming table and the tower and am preparing something for the gallery (some not raided and killed Skaven already look at me with their pointy noses and glowing eyes).
Stay tuned!


So long,
Paradox0n