No Posts for March 2025...

No Posts for March 2025

I have been so busy with other things that I completely forgot to make any new posts to my blog for the month of March 2025.

Making new posts here on my blog is always at the back of my mind.

Plus, blogging is something that I really enjoy doing.

As I have discovered as I restarted blogging in the past year or so, to do the kind of in-depth blogging that I want to do here at Blogger, it would require an enormous amount of time and dedication.

Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in a day.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Like I wrote earlier, I am quite busy. Probably too busy.

Here is a partial list of what I have been up to:

• I workout at a my local gym in Sun City, AZ several times per week.
• I try to go hiking at least once per week, usually on Saturday.
• I try riding my bike at least once per week. Unfortunately, I don't seem to ride my bike nearly enough.
• I was studying for Cisco's CCNA IT certification until I realized that my A+ IT certification from CompTIA expires on July 25th of this year. As a result, after completing chapter 8 in the first volume of the Official CCNA Study Guide, I had to start the online training for the A+ IT certification.
• I got bogged down on writing posts about at attending the WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, AZ and attending Opening Day of the Cactus League in Peoria, AZ.
• Since I live in Sun City for the time being, there is all of the stuff that my mother wants me to do during the day.
• I also had a couple of doctor's appointments during the month of March in downtown Phoenix, AZ.
• I have also discovered that X is quite a time waster that I need to get under control.

Getting Rejected by Google Ad-Sense

Also, during the month of March, I submitted an application to Google Ad-Sense to have advertisements placed throughout posts on my blog in order to generate an income stream. Unfortunately, after waiting for a couple of weeks, I received a notice that my application for Google Ad-Sense had been declined. The reason? Apparently, my blog doesn't meet the content requirements as set by Google Ad-Sense. I guess I have too many photos on my blog and not enough written content. Something like that. Oh, well. It was worth a shot. However, I do see a time when I leave Blogger for a different blogging platform. I am not too sure when it will happen, but it eventually will. For now, I am writing for myself and whomever else may be interested in what I write about.

Making Sense of Google Photos

Then there is the issue of how my collection of photos over at Google Photos is a complete mess. I really do need to sit down and spend some time getting my collection of photos organized into collections and adding key words to each photo. I should also inspect each photo and see if I need to make any enhancements. It can be a lengthy process.

Future Posts

In my Bullet Journal, I have a collection of future blog posts that always seems to get longer and longer.

For example, my post about the Cactus Baseball League in Arizona just kept getting longer and longer. As a result, I have decided to just go ahead and break that post into several shorter posts. I have A LOT of photos that I took last year and this year.

Before I tackle any new topics, I am also trying to finish several incomplete posts here on my blog, such as hiking the Shaw Butte Trail at North Mountain Preserve a second time as well as some posts about my bike rack and almost being the victim of a pig butchering scam.

Plus, I am rewatching the third movie I saw at the Cine Core movie theatre in Seoul on DVD. I am currently planning to write a lengthy post about that movie and how it relates to the Korean War. It's going to take A LOT of work. However, I know that I can do it.

Then, there is that list of blogging topics in my Bullet Journal that I constantly keep adding to.

Lastly, I should go over the HTML reference over at W3 Schools and see if there are additional ways that I can make my blog more sexy. I have learned quite a bit about how to use HTML, but there always seems to be more that I could learn about.

It will take some time, but I will get there.