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Wow! I even impress myself! (I know, I know, I'm a liter or 2 short on the humility thing). Anyway, first blog, first day, and now, second entry! Whee...this is fun.
I'd like to pass on a tip that I learned in the beginning with Fun Trivia, and it's worked wonderfully for me; and might possibly be helpful to someone else who's fairly new, and maybe feeling "point challenged"? If so, read on-
Having been a person in the past that went absolutely nuts over early online games, cribbage mainly, I wanted to see if I could really enjoy Fun Trivia (from now on FT) and not get caught up in power trips. So what I did was set some goals I thought might be reasonable to work towards in standings. I also decided I wanted the overriding goal to be to have fun!
First, I set no point goals. Not then, not now. By the way, I'm with class #113, joined FT in April 2007. My initial goals were to make it into the top 100 in my class, and the top 1000 in the world. I don't remember when I achieved either goal, but eventually I did and when that happened, I revised my goals.
On the worldwide goal, I'm working on someday making it to the top 100. And for my class, I revised that from the top 100, to the top 10. The worldwide goal is still in front of me; and will be for quite sometime. Right now, I think I'm about 309 worldwide. On the class goal for top ten- that's been achieved for a while now. I'm currently sitting in 4th spot in our class. So, the goal has been realized, and I'm happy with that. Knowing the "heavy hitters" in my class somewhat; I have no designs on getting any closer to #1 in the class.
It all might sound a bit contridictory coming from a player with more than a million points, but it really is true. Sure, I play quite a bit, but the points aren't the point, if you get me. It's the play, the learning, the friends, and the new friends to come that make it worthwhile to me. I hope some of this might be helpful, as it comes from someone who was level one once!
Have a great day! :-)
I thought this would be a good place to start for a blogically challenged person like myself. So, I started at the beginning, sort of. After creating this blog site, or shell, I then researched the term 'blog' to see what it meant. (By the way: thank you Fun Trivia for including the blog format for us to use). If there are any other blog dummies like me out there reading this, read on-- I Googled 'blog' and got the following results:
1. A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in reverse chronological order. source- www.sussexlearningnetwork.org.uk/glossary/B
OK, so it's a reverse ordered journal...so I journal backwards? That can't be right, so I read on.
2. Online journal. The term BLOG comes from web log. source- www.emerge-solutions.com/learning_glossary.html
What could be simpler! It's an online journal, named BLOG, which is a shortened version of "web log". But, I'm no clearer on the BIG PICTURE: like, where do I start 'blogging' and what about...and why on earth would anyone else on earth be interested in what I'm blogging about? Ok, Ok, slow down Bill. I must be missing something on the research side. Let's see what else Google has to offer to enlighten the unenlightened like me:
3. Web LOG is a journal kept on the internet. This journal is often updated daily and contains all the information that the person maintaining the BLOG (blogger) wishes to share with the world... source- www.aprompt.co.uk/support/glossary.asp
Now, let's see if I get this now. A blog is a kind of online journal that's displayed backwards; it's on the internet for worldwide viewing, often updated daily. Hmmmmmmm, I think it's getting clearer, but the clearer it gets, the scarier it gets: things like "share with the world" kind of freak me out a bit. Maybe one more stab at the Google research will help.
4. An online diary where people can post messages and others may view and respond to the posts. source- www.legalinternetmarketing.com/seo-glossary.html
Now we're talking! A BLOG is a kind of techno-diary. Others can view it if they want, and respond if they want. That doesn't sound too intimidating. I guess I could give it a try. What do you think #113 Classmates and my Teammates in Just4Fun? :-)
