Blogs, they are a-changin’

Ok, here’s the deal. I know I polled you kind folks a few weeks (months?) back about whether my blog needed a name. And most of you said that it already had one. And it did.

But I have been reflecting a lot (and I spend a lot of time in the car that ends up being prime reflecting time… more on this in a sec), and decided that while Megan Blogs was a name for my blog, it probably wasn’t the best name. It made sense when you came to my site and looked at the header, but all-in-all, I wasn’t really happy with it. And the fact that I work for someone who has a popular blog with his name and the word “blog” in it (I’m not linking because I think he might be embarrassed by all the F-bombs I drop around here, but if you’re smart you’ll figure it out) always made me worry I would be seen as a copy-cat.

So anyway, the one thing that kept coming back to me was that the majority of my blog posts come from thoughts I have while driving home from work every night. I live in Murfreesboro and commute to and from Nashville every day, and let me tell you: That leaves me with much time for thinking. I have often considered getting a digital voice recorder and recording my thoughts, as many times by the time I get home and sit down to blog I have forgotten several things.

I think it also works as a metaphor on other levels, maybe… driving home to a final destination, home can mean many things, etc. Though I hope reading my blog doesn’t result in death. Maybe I should adjust that metaphor to mean that home=enlightenment or something. Whatever. You decide what it means. For me, it means “the shit that comes out of my brain after I’ve been bitching and sometimes crying in traffic for an hour and a half.”

I really considered calling it “The Long Way Home,” but those damn Dixie Chicks stole my idea before I thought of it. And while I love their moxy and their stance on the war and our moronic president, I don’t necessarily love country, nor do I want to be accused of ripping off a song title for a blog title.

So I have registered a new blog with WordPress, http://theridehome.wordpress.com, but right now their site is all wonky and won’t let me log into its admin area, even though the blog shows up on my main wordpress area. (Apparently this is a large problem and there are several forums with people complaining. It seems the only way to fix it is to send them feedback, but feedback is closed on the weekends. Drats.)

Anyway, I hope Brittney at Nashville is Talking doesn’t blackball me now, since she just got me added to their aggregator and now i’m going and changing things. Luckily they haven’t blogrolled me yet, so Brittney, if you’re reading this: I’m so sorry, I should have things worked out as soon as WordPress gets their shit together (hopefully by Monday evening) and I really appreciate your work to get me added in the first place.

I hope this isn’t committing blog-suicide, either. I have been getting increasing levels of traffic and am loving it, and I hope that all you loyal reader-folks will continue to read me at my new home, once it’s up and running. See you soon on the other side!

p.s. Does anyone know why the text I added to the header is showing up all fuzzy? The image is from this template, and I added the text in Photoshop. When I view the jpg in Preview, the text looks crisp and clean, as it does when I first select the image to upload. But after WordPress crops it (just a few pixels on the left-hand side) and I view the site, the text looks fuzzy. Boo.

Tags: wordpress, blogging