November 9, 2007

This is my weekend open track-back post for November 9th-11th.

Blatantly stolen from Linkfest Haven Deluxe:

When you set up a linkfest on your blog, its a lot of hard work, no doubt about it. However, there are several benefits.
Benefits to Hosts:
1) Visitors to your Blog
2) Links from those linking in
3) Readership for Your Spiels
This last deserves some comment. Over at Third World County, David makes a short commentary before getting to the post. I do this on occasion. I’ve done presidential campaign polls, I’ve had links to my book. You’ve got people at your website, so take advantage of it if you’re a host.
It’s also time consuming for posters to link to Linkfests, but they also get benefits out of this.
1) Exposure
2) Links to their work
3) Hits
The best benefit is that some people take a look at a linkfest, look around a little bit, like what they see and before you know it, you’ve got a regular reader on your hands. This happens to both hosts and guests. I credit linkfests with helping me increase the number of hits and comments I get on my blog.
If you’re new to blogging, linkfests are definitely for you. They’re a way for good bloggers to get ahead and promote their work. In addition, linkfests CAN increase your Technorati and Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem rankings. However, that’s not the primary benefit. The benefit is being read and becoming part of the blogging community.

The last Villa Rica home game was tonight, and we presented the sole kicker a $1,000 check. There was actually some confusion on her part (yes, her) because during the second game one guy did make the kick, but it came out later that he wasn’t a senior and might not even be going to college, so he was disqualified. She came prepared to try and kick another field goal, but was very nervous about it. When we got her up to take pictures and present it to her, she was pleasantly surprised to find out that she was the winner.

The game was pretty cool as well although I didn’t get to see as much of it as I would have liked since I was carrying around a five gallon backpack full of coffee to give out. The first one I had was hot chocolate and it went very quickly, then I got one with coffee and hauled that around until we presented the kicker with a check after the band played during half-time.

Since I had taken Pete with me and needed to get home I managed to avoid the traffic and get out of there during the 3rd Quarter. At that point we were losing 14-7. The Carrollton-Villa Rica rivalry is very long standing and there are always quite a few people at the game, enough to fill all of the parking lots as well as the sides of the road for about a mile in either direction.

There may be some pictures in the paper tomorrow. If so then I will post a couple here. I did manage to find one that I’m NOT in (hehe). I don’t remember what was going on but I didn’t attend the first home game of the season. These are the guys that I directly report to.

The girl pictured is the one who ended up receiving the $1k tonight. It was a pretty cool thing to do, with no strings attached other than she is supposed to use it for school, but either way she will be receiving the actual check later next week. It’s pretty cool to be able to do something like that in the community where I have been working for the better part of the last 28 years.