So it took me upwards of two hours to think up an acceptable name for this haven of blasphemy that is now known as Azure Skies. Apparently everyone, and I include in this both vertebrates and invertebrates in this statement, feels the need to have a blog. I personally I am the former, but I have nothing against the latter. Worms are awesome even if they don’t have a spine.

So in my naming experience, I didn’t actually make it a goal to see how many times I could pick something that someone else has picked. I just inadvertently set a new record, I guess. I mean, I’m a pretty creative individual – or at least I would like to think so. I have a wide variety of sources for inspiration and plagiarism. And yet, in a thousand repetitions of “No one could have possibly picked THIS one!” (which includes “vandekrol.blogspot.com” and “anamorphosis.blogspot.com”), the one that finally worked was “hostedby.blogspot.com”, which was basically a last-ditch desperation attempt out of pure frustration with my inability to pick ANYTHING that I or anyone else would ever remember.

I typed it in, knowing for sure that someone more creative than me had taken it, and six people following him had been frustrated that it was already taken. I would have bet ten bucks on it. And then, climactically, it worked! The falling action is as follows: so here I am right now, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I would, however, trade it for “anamorphosis.blogspot.com”, which right now is worth more to me than the world, apparently. Look the word up in the dictionary. It’s cool.

So I guess now I have joined the legions of people on this new frontier we call the Internet… finally giving into the societal pressure to join a community of bloggers. I think I was probably one of the last dozen remaining people in the US who had not taken the leap into the world of web logs, but you know what?