It's blizzarding out. It's dark, dreary, 12 degrees and I can hear the wind howling through my windows. I haven't a clue how much snow there has been so far, I'm not sure if I want to know. Just another winter day in Michigan.

Looks like I'll top 50,000 hits sometime today. That somewhat amazes me, but yet let's be real here. I have had lots of help from the comment spammers this past year. This spring, summer and fall they brought me to my knees until Dean Esmay heard my cries in the wilderness and led me out. My comments are only open 2 days now so they've gone on to greener pastures.

A friend of mine, a fellow blogger is now beginning the descent into hell with the spammers. It does take the joy out of blogging when you see your blog has been raped and pillaged by pornagraphers, having to spend 30-60 minutes a day removing the crap. Whoops and there goes your time to blog and you are reduced to a sniveling, whining fool that other people just don't get until they are targeted. Again, thank you Dean, it's really taken almost what, 3 months now to not cringe every time I sit down to open my email or look at my blog. I'm sure if it was still going on, I would of shut down this blog by now.

So the joy of blogging has been returning, I'm sure you probably noticed the posts are a little more frequent lately. I think that will continue. If you are one of the handful of people that do drop by routinely, I thank you. I think it's safe now to give out some link love again without sending the packs of vultures to your site. I hope, I hope.