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Tomorrow, I will be porting Excellence in Blogging over to a whole new blog, in which you will have to wait until I fully make the transition before you will find out the name. I will give you the official update when I actually get it up and running. That won’t be for a couple of days. Until then, I will leave this blog up to make the transition easier.

The time at which this transition will occur is between the dates of tonight (Feb. 26, 2009) and Tuesday Night (Feb. 27, 2009) between the times of 11pm and 3am.

INSTRUCTIONS

TO ALL OF MY READERS:
Please keep yourself tuned into this blog for the “Official Blog Transition Post” which will happen anywhere between Monday January 26, 2009 between the hours of 11pm and 3am EST (that’s tonight, people) or on Tuesday January 27, 2009 between the hours of 11pm and 3am EST (that’s tomorrow night). I may be taking a day off tonight for some time with my wife — which is the reason for the delay until Tuesday night — and for the domain name to propagate into the DNS.

Once you see the title “Official Blog Transition Post”, that will be the last post in this blog. There will be no more posts to Excellence in Blogging. So you need to update your bookmarks, etc. In said post, I will have a link to the new blog.  Just follow that link, and you will be taken there. Once you are there, then you can proceed to update your bookmarks, link glossaries, etc.

Pay attention to the time in the first set of instructions, or in the first paragraph to note when this will happen. I am providing very clear instructions here. If you do not understand (I know you’re not stupid, but sometimes I’m not as clear as I once thought), you can e-mail me at joshuatakesjericho@gmail.com  for further instruction or detail.

TO MY FRIENDS ON THE BLOGROLL:
Your instructions are essentially the same. I really don’t need to explain much here, because I will explain it all in the email I will be sending out.

If you have linked me back, please update your blogrolls when you see the transition post. Since this blog will stay up for that purpose, you will have enough time to do that.

 

Why am I changing over to a new blog?
We all have reasons for everything. And, of course, my reasons for doing this are the same as any other person who would switch blogs. I’m not really switching blogs — I’m switching to a dedicated server — with a dedicated website for this blog on it. Basically, the domain names were all taken for the name of this blog — So I decided to change it to something different. Something with even more of my personality in it. So, that’s why I’m doing this. It will still be the same ol’ me, and the same ol’ blog. Just different.

How am I going to know when to switch links?
I was kind of confusing in said instructions. Basically the post after this one will be my last post ever on this blog, on WordPress’s servers. In that post, I will give you all of the information you need, and you just take it from there.

 

So, there you have it. If you don’t understand the times or the dates, just check back in a couple days and that’s all you have to do.

 

Blogrollers, be looking for my e-mail!

So, I was reading on GYL’s blog the other day — she had some interview questions given to her by the Vinyl Villager.

So, I happily obliged to be interviewed, and I received my interview questions by e-mail the other day. I will do all of them PLUS the Bonus Questions!

1. If you could bring back one influential/famous person back from the dead, who would it be and why?

Most people with my religious background would pick Jesus. But, because it would warp all things in the space-time continuum, I would not pick Jesus. Honestly, I would probably bring back Thomas Edison. I was going to pick one of the founding fathers — or maybe my favorite President — Abraham Lincoln. But, they have served their purpose. I’m sure Edison had many more ideas for inventions that could improve life. He did invent and discover most things that we still use today. Maybe he could even improve on his discovery of Electricity with something more earth-friendly.

2. Toilet Paper – Do you scrunch or fold?

I fold. You’re wasting paper if you scrunch. You can only wipe once if you scrunch — unless you want crap on your hands. I’ve tried it, believe me. I used to be a scruncher, and once I started folding, I never looked back.

3. Which do you prefer? Star Trek, Or Star Wars? If neither, which fans are the craziest.

I prefer Star Wars hands down. Nothing against Star Trek — I enjoyed some episodes in my time — but Star Wars will always have an impact on Pop Culture. It has a deeper story and much more developed characters. And it was a movie, not a TV show. George Lucas is just an amazing story teller. Plus, I never got most of the idioms and archetypes in Star Trek. It was just…foreign to me. At least you could understand Star Wars the least little bit. As far as fans go, I would have to say for the craziest, that award would have to go to Star Trek fans. Gluing strange looking ears to your person would definitely qualify for weird in my book. At least dressing up as Chewbaca is mildly entertaining. Gluing strange looking ears and painting your face — Halloween only comes once a year, people.

4. What is your earliest childhood memory?

My earliest childhood memory? I honestly can’t remember. My memories of childhood are a jumbled mess. I can’t really put an age to any of it. I had a great, semi-normal childhood. I just can’t remember much of it. At least associating an age with those memories. No.

5. What is it that you love about your wife?

I could go on and on about this. But, I’m not. I love my wife because she is the complete opposite of me. Sure, we share similar interests and goals. But that doesn’t make a person similar to you. She is my polar opposite, and she keeps me in check when it comes to most things. And in lots of ways, with her polarity, taught me many things. We feed off of each other. As far as Spirituality, she is much more disciplined than I am. As far as Intelligence is concerned, I know more things — but she knows more different things than I do. And she’s a good problem solver. I can go into more detail – I think I may actually make a post of this.

6. Do you have a secret dream or goal?

My goals and dreams are no secret. One one end of things — there are goals that God (may you believe in Him or not, I do) has for me — and essentially that applies to me as well. And on the other end of things there are goals that I want to personally achieve. God wants me to plant a church, and become an established Pastor. I do want that. My personal goals are more spiritual while my dreams are more temporal (earthly) in nature. My goals are to have a career. While a Pastor is a career — you can’t plant a Church without Money. So, instead of making my living bumming off of people to donate to the church — people are more inclined to give when they don’t “have” to (meaning my church already has money in it — therefore the money goes to necessary things) — so my goal is to essentially become a Pastor — but a financially independent Pastor. My dreams are to become financially independent in my home life. Not rich. That would be too much for me and drive me crazy. Just pay off my bills and live debt free. That is my ultimate dream at this point in my life. After that happens, my dreams will renew themselves.

7. We live in a greedy, uncaring customer society. Discuss.

I would be happy to discuss this. But, I can see both ends. On the Customer end, there is no such thing as Customer Service anymore. On the other end of the spectrum — due to there no being any resolve between the seller of goods and the customer — the people who hold the responsibility of “Customer Service” feel overwhelmed and powerless — therefore making the customer angry. Yes, the whole mantra of “The Customer is Always Right” is kind of worn out, but when you are paying money for anything — wouldn’t you want it to go right? I would mostly love for the things on the merchant end be fixed — and the customers will follow. As far as society is concerned. People are too fixated on ‘things’…$6 Starbucks Coffee, Fancy Cars, Big Houses, a Yacht. I know that, these days, this whole view on society is played out. But, really. It is true. Why can’t we be a simpler people? What’s wrong with being Simple? I like simple. I do want a nice car — but only because I would enjoy something that I earned. I have a nice house, I don’t need a bigger one. The biggest thing is need vs. want. It’s alright to want some things, but what about when it gets a little too excessive. What do you do then?

8. What words or phrases do you dislike?

Anything that has been made up in the past 10 years by a bunch of high schoolers. I mean, do you really call most of this crap English? Hell no. Since when does “slang” appropriate any kind of formal recognition — including but not limited to being entered into the dictionary. I understand a lot of words we use today, were once slang. But the slang of today — makes no sense, and in my opinion, has no use. I’ll get off my pedestal.

9. What is your favourite(sic) book or movie?

I have taken it upon myself to combine this into the best book/movie combination. The best book I’ve ever read thus far? Chronicles of Narnia. All of them. Seriously. C.S. Lewis really has a wild and vivid imagination. The books are in wonderful and breathtaking detail and the movie(s) really captured those images in your head and put them on screen.

10. Do you think it’s possible for members of the opposite sex to be friends?

Honestly? No. In the short term, yes, of course. This is coming from a guy who hung out with mostly the opposite sex through most of his High School years. But, even in that, it doesn’t matter. Just to be friends? It doesn’t happen. A man and a woman can never be just friends. There is always going to be some fascinating infatuation. Mutual or not. It’s just natural. A bond between man and woman will, and always will be, more than friends. Sure you can have girl – friends. But if you hang around them for prolonged periods of time, you will become infatuated with them. Unless you’re gay. Then all bets are off the table on that one. Why do you think that when a man gets married — he stops hanging out with members of the opposite sex? Or a woman, as well. Because it never ends well — especially if you’re married.

 

There we go. I answered these to the best of my ability. If you want me to interview you, just comment in this post “Interview Me” (yes, it’s become sort of a Meme) and I will send you the questions by e-mail. Answer them and post them in your blog (Don’t send them back to me).