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More and more, I find myself citing this very blog when various subjects come up for conversation in my day to day life. I don't have the objective of promoting myself. I have no thought of trying to shoehorn the name of it in where it's not called for. I don't believe in that kind of hustling, where some seedy guy is seizing on every flimsy reason why you might want to buy the watch he's selling. What does success look like with tactics like that? The ones that get away are turned off and spread that by word of mouth, and so do the ones you reel in. Promotion is something about which I'm apprehensive, and a fear that I'll come off like that is a major reason. Even so, I find myself bringing up the blog consistently, and purely in an organic nature. Other times, it's mentioned by someone else. In either case, I try not to push it. I talk about what I'm doing in the way and to the extent that the situation calls for.

This happened fairly recently. I don't remember what the impetus was for introducing my little pride and joy into the conversation. It might have been me or someone else in the car which was carrying myself and three others away from a friend's musical performance at a university campus event. I always support a friend when I can, and there were other reasons to come as well. I've been absent from some of these particular people due to logistical circumstances, and I hate that. I also have long wanted to take a look at the campus of this university, as I had considered it during high school and wound up elsewhere. It had looked like an outstanding school, and I recall salivating over the facilities described and pictured in brochures which the guidance center then furnished. As a rule I don't care for looking back, but I did like the idea of going to a part of town I never have occasion to visit and looking around. There was plenty to see.