My dAd announced this trip that he thought he needed a blog.

My original thought was: Um, okay.

Followed by: Awesome.

My dAd is going to start a blog. <a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6013.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3234" title="Blog w/dAd" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6013.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>

<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6015.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3235" title="Blog w/dAd 1" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6015.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>

<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6016.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3236" title="Blog w/dAd 2" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6016.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>

Now I think that my dAd is pretty good with email.  That's about all you need these days to write a blog. But much beyond that and I think that my MoM steps in to help him.  My brother and I got our dAd a new digital camera this past Christmas and he has about 2000 photos and has yet to download a single one.

So the blog-thing is going to be interesting. <!--more--><!--more-->

A couple of days ago I signed my dAd up for a gmail account and a wordpress.com blog. He was kind of annoyed that I made one of the letters in his password capitol and used both a character and a number. I told him it was for his own security. I am not sure he bought it.

Then I got him lined up on his first post. He wrote probably 300 words. It was slow going. He was struggling to write on my laptop. Sorry, dAd. Then my MoM started to run computer circles around my dAd. She was the first commenter on his blog and she critiqued one of his links. It was broken.

dAd was still trying to figure out which of the 100+ wordpress.com layouts he liked best.

<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6018.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3238" title="Blog w/dAd 3" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6018.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>

<a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6014.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3239" title="Blog w/dAd 5" src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/img_6014.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" /></a>It was great fun to drink a beer and teach my dAd about blogging. But I have a sense that I've created a monster. This morning the very first thing he wanted to know was how many people viewed <a href="http://wallawallalocal.wordpress.com/">his blog yesterday</a>. The answer 11. He went to work telling me that he was already plotting his next blog post. My poor mother.

Needless to say, I have no idea what to expect. My MoM thinks that it's going to take up all of his time. That if it's not already, shortly it will be an obsession. I am not sure what to think.  The only guess I feel like I wager right now is that he probably won't post more than twice a week. I'd also venture to guess that he struggles with getting photos uploaded to start with seeing as he's never downloaded a photo from his camera.

But it will be good for him.