My copy of Ulysses next to my computer, I set out on my EntreCard guided cyberwanderings. It is 7:41 and I already have had seventy-two people drop cards on me. Twenty-eight are from people that visited via the fifteen different ads that I have running.

I shift around some ads, and find that I am the most popular ‘Lifestyle’ site and 83rd overall. I have about 300 credits I plan on using first thing this morning so I go to search the most popular inexpensive sites. I turn on Pandora to provide a musical backdrop, and Nanci Griffith’s “Simple Life” comes on.

The first blog to catch my attention is The Quiverfull Family Blog. It is described as Musings on Christian family living, Christian book reviews, homeschooling, homesteading, recipes, home business and more!.

“Quiver Mamma” reviews The Captive Princess - A Story Based on the Life of Young Pocahontas (Daughters of the Faith Series) by Wendy Lawton. As a blog providing Christian book reviews, it is not surprising to find Quiver Mamma talking about Pocahontas’ faith journey.

I stop to think about my own faith journey, as well as my journey today. I wonder if Quiver Mamma will stop by and read my blog. What will she think of my political commentary? She seems like a perfect example of the people I wish political bloggers would engage more with.

While I read Quiverfull, the price of an advertisement has increased. Someone else has discovered this site and placed an ad. Even at the increased price, it is worth it and I place an advertisement. Yet in the confusion, I end up not following the advertisements from Quiverfull’s blog.

Entrecard is running slowly this morning, so between my writing and EntreCard’s slowness, it may take me a while to get through all the drops I want. The next site that I visit is the Ali Star Fan Club Website. I have no idea who Ali Star is, glance at a few pictures and move on.

Advertising on the fan site is My Big World of Crap It talks about makeover time for the website, anger management, and ‘Wank’ In just a few clicks I’ve taken a long trip from Quiverfull.

Reap Money Online brings me to my first “Serena” post. Serena is a little girl with neuroblastoma. Many of the blogs are writing about Serena and my mind wanders to another child that battled neuroblastoma, Alex. I think I first heard about Alex’s Lemonade Stand, on a kids show on PBS. I love it when people use blogs to work for a better world, whether it be Quiver Mamma talking about children’s books that talk about the importance of faith, this blog, talking about uniting to fight cancer, or the blogs of my political friends. They are all much closer related than they may think.

Though helping raise money to fight neuroblastoma isn’t the what you would normally expect from a site like Reap Money Online. Normally, there are posts about website colors and layouts; useful hints, but very different.

RMO leads me to Wedding Cake Hints, pictures of pink wedding cakes with chocolate bows, snapshots in the family album. This leads me to Musuan. There is an option to read content, a list of top EntreCard droppers and an EntreCard ad. There are lots of sites like this out there. They seem to be more about gaining credits instead of gaining readers, so I oblige, drop my card, and move on.

Musuan leads to Cromely’s World Cromely asks how negative we are, talks about limits of the Presidency and fails to capture my interest. Next comes Rambling On; camping, finals week, going shopping. Splinters talks about music. The Daily Bits talks about jetpacks and blogging and Monkey Fables and Tales, a popular site which advertises extensively on EntreCard proclaims that they are a doofus. Unconventional Marketing Blog announces the winners of their latest contest and that tornados suck. Amy Lilley Designs has some old pictures of cats and flowers.

This chain of sites fails to hold my interest, so I go back to my list of sites for potential sites to advertise on. Hit-or-Miss has the EntreCard ad buried and doesn’t really capture my attention. The Prague ConnectionAlyCat’s WeightWatchers Blog talks about motherhood and losing weight, another part of the palimpsest.

I glance at Nordic Walking US and decide it is time to post my first entry of EntreCard Bloomsday. I’ve only dropped around 20 cards in the first half hour and placed a few ads. It has drastically slowed down my EntreCard dropping, which is perhaps a good thing, but I do need to get on with other things

How does all of this affect my writing style? I look at recent blog posts. The better blogs incorporate real life, births, schooling, graduation, wedding, fighting diseases and trying to stay healthy, with what we can do as people, work together to spread our faith, fight cancer and get politicians elected that will work for us to address these issues. I try to do some of this and find that recently, my posts have moved even further from pure niches of politics, news, technology, and related subjects.