Jogging for Blogging - Train this Blogger

As it looks, I'll be soon flying alone again here on Eurospective, as Alca really thinks about quitting the game and Charred told me that the same is the case for him. I promised not to give up on Eurospective and give it my all at least this month and I will put my mouth where my money is. It occurred to me that I had to come up with new methods of finding interesting blogging topics. I always had most of my ideas under the shower and I had to imbue myself for real this time. For Europe. As I was standing in the shower, I did my weekly weight check by looking down on me to make sure I can still see him (I shower twice a day, but I can't possibly look down while dancing and singing Lady Gaga songs).

My dearest Yiska-lovers, I kid you not when I say that I was paralysed for a second. Not that he disappeared or fell off, but he got considerably shorter or did he? I towelled myself off quickly and hopped on the balance. Great, plus 3kg in one week.

"Fat-tastic, Sascha. Now you got two problems to solve. I guess I really have to start jogging again and as for the blogging... Wait, wait, WHAT?! Wait a fudging minute. Blogging and Jogging. I make this win."

And so the idea was born. My best inspiration has always been running especially early in the morning when the sun rises and nobody is in the streets. It really feels like you own the place. I loved it in my youth. I basically ran everywhere, rarely took the bus, and just ran across town, thinking about school, girls, games and life. As you grow up, you don't want to look like an idiot while running in normal clothes and so I got lazy. University forced me to leave my football team and I gained 15kg in two years. I tried losing weight from time to time, but I'm the kind of person who does nothing for himself. What I mean by this is, that for example even after two years of living in my apartment I still haven't installed a couple of racks. If an uncle or a friend asks me to paint their kitchen, I will be there in five minutes. Moreover if I don't have people kicking my butt from time to time or keeping an eye on what I'm doing so I don't want to disappoint them, I will just stop being forceful and eventually stop when it's not fun for me anymore. Long story short, what's better than an average 2000 reader per blog audience that can potentially call me a loser or a fattie? You get the point.

Now if you know me I'm not only a very competitive but also a very pretty twisted nature. Sometimes I have this tick that doesn't allow me to do certain things until I achieve or I make up random competitions. "Kick this aluminium foil ball five times before it falls to the ground or you can't leave the kitchen", "100 tetris lines or you can not stand up from the toilet" or my favorite "I will be at this lantern before the car, RUN SASCHA!". I love those little competitions and while I announced my idea to Shader, he came up with the following.



Now don't get me wrong, this is not a begging for likes. In fact I will probably suffer if you like too much, heh. If you don't like the blog, then by all means don't push the button. What I really think is, that many people read a blog and enjoy it, but rarely remember to scroll up again and +1 like it. I assume I speak here for all bloggers on Gameriot when I say that a +1 is easily as satisfying as 100-200 unique hits. Hits just say that you did your homework and advertised correctly. Likes say that you addressed your audience correctly and they enjoyed the read. I measure the success of a blog in likes and if I do feel that the audience enjoyed the topic I will try to come up with something related. If we take for example lasts month winner "The Ohcee", I think it's foolish to say that many people didn't like the blog although they had the highest number of hits. My guess is that their audience is either not registered on Gameriot or doesn't think about what these likes mean to us bloggers.