Monday, August 7, 2006
This is the time of day when I receive the fewest hits whenever I put a new entry in this blog. There are times when I put in an entry at 2 PM or so, Central Time, and don't receive any visitors at all to the blog. This naturally distresses me. I have a good motive for writing frequently - I need the money. When I don't receive any hits, I don't receive any money. It's that simple. I keep posting as frequently as I can find topics for that reason. I have no trouble attracting visitors at other... Sign in to see full entry.
Florence Nightingale
I just read an article on AOL about the finding of a rare photograph of Florence Nightingale. For those of you unfamiliar with Ms. Nightingale's work, many apparently consider her the founder of the nursing profession. Even if she didn't found it, she certainly helped popularize the concept of the nurse, even going to the battlefield during the Crimean War to provide nursing care to soldiers. Her work proved definitively that good nursing care is essential to the proper medical care of patients.... Sign in to see full entry.
Time to vent yet again
I'm really sorry that I need to vent yet again, because I've done so very much of it over the past month or so in particular. Yes, I know that all that venting has resulted in an increased hit count, and I'm grateful for the extra income that produces, but there is just so much going on in my life right now, and writing really seems to help relieve the stress. We're in the process of selling off some personal assets in order to pay our landlord the seriously past-due balance we owe him. After... Sign in to see full entry.