howdy to @abh12345 Asher! I'm thankful to be in this position again..I don't really feel like it's me because there are so many wonderful people here that I learn from and talk to everyday so that's what I do. thanks so much to you Asher and to @curie who makes this possible, you both are truly helping so many people and are such good role models and leaders.
I stalked and got to know @gillianpearce this week and she is a wonderful lady and put up with my stupid Texas redneck humor so I thank her for being gracious! @themanwithnoname and @glenalbrethsen both gave me alot of time and conversations this week and are such excellent gentlemen.
Congratulations to everyone who worked hard last week and got into the top 20. I see that @smithlabs really rose alot of positions and everyone needs to look out for @headchange because she'll play head games with you and is rising fast! lol. She's fantastic, no finer person on here and she has a big heart to help others. God bless you all!
Awwh thank you so much for your kind words. Actually you probably contributed quite a bit to the little boost I had. What with all your joking around all week. So thank you very much for that as well.
You truly are the "redneck gentleman"
well..I try to live up to my title, hopefully I succeed more than I fail.
Thank you @janton. I'm think I'm going to start collecting adjectives that have been used to describe me. I seem to be doing rather well this week.
@abh12345 started with "lovely". And now I can add "wonderful" and "gracious".
I am looking forward to the day when I can be legitimately described as dolphinous (in account rather than body size of course!) π± π
lol! howdy again @gillianpearce and congratulations on another great week in the contest! Hey have you been called "funny" yet? because you are and can add that to the adjectives. you're great. oh there's another one to add! I could do this for awhile but then all the adjectives would be gone.
I know almost nothing about Steemit so I don't know what qualifies a person to be a Dolphin but I know that you will get there.
God bless you and long live the Queen!
bytheway why does England have a queen and no King?
So we now have "lovely", "wonderful", "funny", "great" and "gracious". I think that's sufficient from you @janton. Thank you. People will start to talk! π
You seem to be a little obsessed with the Royal family if I might say so.
No we have no King. It's either one or the other. The Queen's husband is a Prince. A title he insisted on being given, back in the day, in return for staying in the marriage. That's what the BBC said anyway, so it must be true! π
well you're royalty on Steemit, does that count? lol
Actually I'm more obsessed with England and her STAYING England with all the foreigners and influxes... I don't want her roots weakened. If you haven't already you should do a post on how you achieve the "balance" that Glen was referring to. I could use some pointers!
I wrote a comment in an earlier reply @janton that talks a bit about how I approach Steemit these days. It was in response to @bashadows comment. Higher up the page I think.
The most critical bit for me though, in terms of achieving balance, has been more of an inner one rather than what I actually do or don't do. My Zenning approach as @glenalbrethsen calls it. π
It's about being OK with only replying to comments I want to reply to or to posts I really want to read.
When i first started i felt an obligation to reply to every post i saw in my feed and to read every post of those I was following. Now, if I'm having a day when I don't fancy reading, I don't read and I let that be OK.
If I get too far behind I don't try and catch up, something again I did in the early days.
Interestingly enough. The sky hasn't fallen in as a result! π
howdy back @gillianpearce! yes interestingly enough..it's such good advice to not get yourself so stressed out trying to do it all. NOW I know what Glen was talking about, the Zenning thing..very good.
gotta be at peace with yourself or it's not worth it.
thanks so much, I'll read your comment to bashadows.
Congratulations on the top spot again! Four in a row ties a record you, know. I think you're in second or third all time for the total number of comments in a week (I'd have to check for sure), and that score is at least second place all time, too.
We all rely on one another for engagement. Plus, we hope to bring others into the fold. So whatever @themanwithnoname and I did still requires you and everyone else do something, too. Like you acknowledged here in your reply.
I think you had an incredible week. The question is, can it be duplicated or exceeded? I think you've got plenty of people rooting for you. :)
well thank you sir that means alot. I doubt if it will be duplicated or exceeded this week but it's still early. Last night I ran out of people to talk to. I may have to enlist someone to stay up all night and discuss things. I'm trying to make new friends but alot of people don't want to talk much, I probably scare them off!
That seems to be an ongoing problem. They don't want to talk, don't have time to talk, are shocked that someone talked to them, scared that someone did, annoyed that someone is talking to themβI'm sure it runs the gambit. To each their own, I guess.
I do have to say, though, to pull off another 800-plus comment week, you need people to talk to. :) I've been having that problem at 300 comments a week and less, but in my case, I overwhelm with words. :)
Still, very well done, especially if you don't duplicate or exceed, since that combination of comments and CL was unheard of until you did it. The overall CL has been either higher but the number of comments lower, or the CL has been lower, but the comments higher. So, rarefied air keeps getting rarer.
yes sir, most of the time people probably have better things to do than to be on Steemit chatting away. go figure! lol
thank you for the kind words, I try but I don't really consider myself anywhere near your level because I have a hard time writing more than a few sentences at a time. that's not much of a writer!
I wonder where a year from now will find us?
what if we aren't even on Steemit, then it would be alot of time for nothing. well the friendships are wonderful but I assume most of them would eventually fade into dust.
As long as the STEEM blockchain exists, and especially as long as STEEM is being traded and actively transacted, be it through the existing apps on the platform, SMTs, or straight up commerce, what we're doing now will be worth it, because STEEM will be worth something. I need it to be worth more than $2.82 USD (that's my average per STEEM in investments right now), but maybe I can manage to bring that cost down a bit more.
Whether or not we're still doing things here in a year will depend on what happened to the social media platform and the connecting apps, as well as whether or not there' still a way to earn rewards. You're right about the friendships. I'm not sure if I can truly call them that yet because except for a few who have decided to use at least some portion of their name, I don't even know that. It's tough to have friends when you've never met them in person and they're anonymous. Even so, there are a few I talk with regularly that are anonymous that I would like to eventually know more about, like their name, so that's at least something. :)
I don't think we need to compete with one another as far as whatever perceived writing abilities we have or don't have. And, you're doing more than trying. Your achieving. A lot of people have less experience writing than I do, and I've never been formally trained. My highest English course is still from high school (unless I took a general ed course of it the year I went to BYU), so I don't have a degree in it, and when I owned the newspapers, we didn't follow any particular stylebook. We used the upside down pyramid method, but as far as grammar and other styling goes, I don't even know what it is.
I just like to write, and by extension, to read, so I've learned to form sentences and use an expanded vocabulary list in the doing. For as much writing that someone could do here, it wouldn't take too long to sharpen up any skills needed.
Congratulations @janton! Great job again this week!!! You are holding on to that first place cowboy hat crown tightly I see :)
howdy today @lynncoyle1! I swear this is going to be my last big finish because there are too many outside projects that I've been neglecting. My plan after this week is just to make it into the top ten and hopefully stay "in the money". what's your plan?
I'm not much of a planner @janton! After spending so many years teaching, and literally planning every minute, I pretty much fly by the seat of my pants now π Although, I do have a general plan in place, which is always to stay in the top 10, but I must say, I prefer the top 5.
When I did make first place a few times, I thought I had to keep up the frantic place, then finally slowed down and was pleasantly surprised to still be in the top 3. I think that could easily be you because your numbers are just so much higher than anyone else's.
yeah I know, I'm pretty awesome. lol just teasing, I'm as shocked, no I'm the most shocked of anyone because I'm basically a hermit but my "stay at home" personality is perfect for steemit!
"Stay at home personality"...that explains it! When Brian's not well, we don't leave the house, so this is what I do!
yes Ma'am Steemit's a perfect fit!