Actually, it is the best timing ever.

On Monday I sent out to a tweet to my followers on my other Twitter account a notice saying that I was retiring from that account and putting my energies into this one. A lot of folks said how it was bad timing, due to the fact that the very next day Theresa May announces a General Election in the UK.

But to me it was perfect timing, I am still going to be putting that account to rest but over the next 50 days it will give me time to promote this to the 11,000 plus followers of that account at the same time. (I added some 300 followers to that account since the announcement) All things happen for a reason and it is why I want to do this blog to put that theory into practise and document the journey. I now have 50 days of fun electoral stats to enjoy and opportunities to launch this endeavour.

Great times ahead.

First milestone passed

In cricket, you would be at this point, taking off your helmet. directing your bat towards a significant other in the main pavilion and taking the applause of the crowd.

The reason for all this would be that you have just made your first century. For this blog we have gone passed a 100 connections (at time of blog post 115). I know for some thye may find that laughable. But it is a milestone, to get to your destination you must pass each and every marker to get there.

Currently we have left the boundaries of our out going location and go forward into the unknown. Knowing the destination but not sure on how you are going to reach it.

I have set myself mile stones along the way, this being the first 100, then it would be 500, then a 1,000, then 5,000, then 10,000, then 50,000 then 100,000 then 500,000 then finally the target of a million.

The gaps between each will become further but no less celebrated. Thank you for those who have connected already and I look forward to all the future connections 115 down 999,885 connections to go.

You can connect in various ways which you will see in either side bar.

I think I will resist doing the press ups which now seems to be associated with making a century.

Putting to bed a past blog and account.

It has been great fun running my blogs about the 2015 then the run up to the 2020 General Election

link to last post on those blogs  But had become a chore, you have to be on the ball every Friday morning, or when an opinion poll had been launched. With a wife and work it was not possible to be always there when you needed to be. What had been fun wasn;t and that is not the way to run your life.

I look back and enjoy the memories of seeing my twitter account pinging away all night, seeing that I had over 4 million impressions during a month, having my blog getting more traffic than some of the political parties I were following.

It made money it gave me great memories, and now for the moment it rests in peace as I now devote my spare time to this. I can pick this up and down as needed, I am the master of this blog not it's servant.

Quite looking forward to seeing where this takes me and building up another blog, it is always exciting to build up from nothing. Lets see where it takes us, hope you enjoy the ride.

Game on, in regards to a million connections.

Work as usual always gets in the way of all the fun stuff you wish to do. I have been spending a hour here or half an hour there setting up this blog, mostly opening accounts and setting up buttons, none of which actually attracting connections. But as like when building a house a lot of money, time and resources go into the foundations. So it can sometimes feel like you have done a lot but not got anywhere and as we as humans like instant gratification it was sowing seeds of doubt of was this a daft idea?

Well it is a daft idea, but it is harmless it is just a way of exploring with a kind of purpose, surfing the Internet and gathering up what you find as you go a long.

So yesterday I started a game on Facebook, you will see the link below. One simple message on it's main page asking for friends to help play the game got me 38 friends in the first 12 hours, because the connections I am trying to make are of other folks free will not me pestering saying be my friend, be my friend and sending multiple requests it is folks who find me.

So in the style of the fast show, currently you will find me mostly playing Megapolis when not gathering connections.

Game On!

How can you lose a boot as you are walking?

On my endeavour to find as many ways to connect with people I have joined instagram. It is a site I had heard of but never ventured on, so by doing this project it has taken me somewhere I normally wouldn't go.

It seems that it is communication via photos, I am not a selfie person, and in the spirit of Tom Hanks I am going to take photos of random things I find on my walks.

Here is my first find.


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How can lose one boot whilst you are walking?

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What have I been up to?

Well, there are now a couple more buttons, feedjit and a stat checker button. Love stats, who is coming from where and when. It is more to do with what will be working and how to keep on doing the stuff that works.

A couple of posts on a few forums to advertise what I am doing, a couple of comments on blogs. This is after all a slow meander it is more or less like walking to India from the North of England rather then catching a plane. currently I have got to the end of the road and stopped at the cafe for a cup of tea.

Well just a quick post as life and work intervene now.

The story so far day 4

So slowly but surely I am setting up this blog, and the off shoots to help. As it seems everyone has to have one I have set up a Facebook page. Couldn't do  a million connections but I can be called connect millions. Go figure!

But it is now another way in which you can connect and share and help me reach the million connections mark. So while I have a little time I am going to click the next blog button and see what ideas I can find or connections to be made.

1st up is http://daniellekennington.blogspot.co.uk/?expref=next-blog which had it's last post in 2011, did have a tag for guest book which gave back grounds. but even most of its blogs list had given up a few years ago. It seems I am not alone with great start up ideas and then they wither and fade.

then we press next blog 2nd up http://alicia-aninsidejob.blogspot.co.uk/?expref=next-blog  a personal blog last posted 2012, but in the blog list is someone who has posted 4 days ago, have I found one still blogging? It leads me to http://kellehampton.com/blog @KelleHampton 

It is worth a look and it is someone who seems to seriously monetise their blog posts. No mean feat. So comment left another person followed and will see if we get any links back.

3rd stop as I press the next blog button. http://gabpesieto.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/needs-vs-wants.html and this is where fate, cause and effect, I feel we all have a connection, and things where as you may feel are not planned, I do think the ideas are put before you and it is what you do with them which defines what will happen in your life.

So I find this post need vs wants, which near enough describes some of what I am going thru in my own head at the moment concerning work. There is the one side where it is what I think what I want, and then the other side which is what I need. Although I am not religious it is always said god will give you what you need not what you want. Funny old world, to come across this post, a bit like getting a horoscope in the paper which is spot on for once.

There ends the lesson of day 4

Clicking the next blog

I have always in life left the most important choices to fate. Do I go left or right, do I go or stay, all decided on the flip of a coin. Where do I go? Decided by which train was leaving the train station next, it is how I ended up in Cardiff when I ran away as a young lad, and were lucky enough to meet someone on a train who took me in whilst I got my head together and sent me home when I had sorted my head.

So when choosing where to look to see where to go on the internet why not leave it to blogging fate. click next blog.

1st up http://andeparks.blogspot.co.uk/?expref=next-blog interesting blog, I have always been interested in drawing, myself, but not as talented as this person, as a connection a long shot as hadn't posted for a year and then a couple of years before that.

2nd http://leftmewantingmore.blogspot.co.uk/?expref=next-blog more art, what is blogger thinking about me today. comment left as although not a prolific blogger they at least had made a post in March this year.

Followed them on twitter hopefully get a follow back

and as I always do things in threes.

3rd http://xmanscomicblog.blogspot.co.uk/?expref=next-blog It seems to be comic book art day, initially I thought this was going to be a dead end as the last post had been in 2013, but the blog had just been revived. so followed the link http://comicbookdystopia.blogspot.co.uk/ comment left and although this is only 3, it is 3 things I wouldn't have normally ventured too, it certainly beats the doom and gloom of the news.

How to build the connections?

Now there was a time when I could just sit on the computer all day, I was off sick from work, or shall I say I was sick of work so I was off, so you could mooch from site to site.

Now I have a full time job, and a wife. So this is just going to be a past time for me.

One thing I thought of doing was click the next blog, let fate bring on the next connection. On twitter it is poll the trending hash tag. Still to set up a facebook page, don't even have a proper one for myself, so will do that when I get a bit of free time.

But if you have wandered on to this blog, where do you suggest is the best place to go to gather connections?

JSS vs AMC

Normally at this point the first post for a blog is Welcome. So I might as well get the niceties out of the way and say welcome, and thanks for taking the time to come and take a look.

So, that's that done. Why? JSS vs AMC. Do you watch the walking dead? well although this blog won't be about zombies I was toying with the fact of building a blog around the JSS tag, Just Simply Survive, as I had already discounted "Don't be afraid of your freedom" as a blog title. It was going to be a blog about my travel through life as I self improved. Although people like to read about how to get better they also want to talk about their own issues, and where as I had been thinking about how people are afraid of going off and doing the things which would make them happy. A lot of folks just do what they need to survive. All of which is a little depressing and there is far too much of that in the news anyway.

So, I went with A million connections, I do believe in "What will be, will be" so lets see where this leads us, see who I come into contact with, I can be assured as anyone can be that the future is an unread book. So here we are chapter 1.

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Feel free to comment on this blog, leave links to your own blogs, or ideas on making more connections.

I am quite looking forward to this internet adventure.