I maintain two blogs. It's enough. I've been asked to blog at more sites. Begged. But I won't. I'm here because I love The Red Room. I also maintain a pet-oriented blog at Blogspot.  Does anyone get paid to blog? I don't and no one has offered. They've just wanted me to blog sans compensation. Sorry, the bills keep coming so that's out of the question. 

I don't blog daily. Once or twice a week for each blog is about all I can manage.

And then the Red Room Housewarming Party began. More blogs began to spring forth, amped up by the desire to bring more people to pages, I suspect. I watch the stats weekly. Why? Because they're there. I was in fourth place for a long stretch of time. Today I'm in fifth place. Why? I don't know. It doesn't matter. I've only had the daydream of everyone who plays the lottery -- the big prize.  I'm three thousand miles away and I thought it would be a blast to meet so many of the Red Room authors and staff in person.  The dream is slipping a little further away.  A reminder of why I don't buy a lottery ticket. It gives you false hope.