How am I Doing?

I mention, often, that I follow and participate in some 30+ chatrooms/forums/discussion groups. I read these on a constant basis sometimes as many as 4 times each day 7 days a week. These discussion groups allow me to do several things.
1. As most of you know I am disabled with Parkinsons which limits my ability to work and even get around so reading and commenting on these panels fills my days and allows me to feel useful during the last days of my life when it is hard to find my own value.
2. The forums provide me with a fount of knowledge on all sorts of DIY subjects. I have been a lifelong project person from planning and building 3 personal homes to numerous renovations and repair projects. By far I don’t pretend to be an authority on any one thing, the old "jack of all trades/master" of none syndrome probably describes me beat but studying the problems of others and the solutions offered keeps me up to date and allows me to then pass these answers on to others when the problem pops up elsewhere on another site.
3. As witnessed by my writings of this blog site these forums have provided me with a constant supply of subject matter to write about in an effort to further document these lessons and to have them as a constant point of reference to my readers.
4. I try to keep track of my writings, postings and threads as well as the number of visitors I get here on this site to judge its value and thus to provide me the encouragement to continue to write even on days when I don’t feel like it or when my joints hurt so badly that it’s difficult to type. The results of these trackings are as follows after 5 months of my work: On Google I have nearly 800 separate hits of things that can be traced back to me, on a Yahoo search you can find nearly 1400 hits, here on this blogsite, over this past weekend, I installed a counter to see how many viewers I am getting daily and I’m proud to say that in 3 days of tracking we have had 60 visitors that have found the site and spent some time reading my musings.

In a further effort to disseminate my writings and to make them easier to find I also have reprinted many of my blogs on” Ezine” sites such as www.hubpages.com. www.articlesbase.com. www.associatedcontent.com, and www.ehow.com.

One of my favorite sites is www.diychatroom.com. This site offers not only discussion forums that cover EVERY possible DIY subject but also has a space for blogs. I have 23 of my DIY based blogs from this blogsite reprinted and featured and as of today have had over 2500 people view, read and comment on my writing. To me these numbers as well as the tracking and numbers above mean that the word is getting out and hopefully represents people that have learned something that Ive been able to pass along or have found a solution to a problem.

As I previously said, I don’t have all the answers so for your own reading pleasure and resources for additional help I recommend the following additional forums and discussion groups out of the many I follow: www.diynetwork.com, www.doityourself.com. www.terrylove.com, the kitchen. bathroom. plumbing, home repair, and remodeling forums from http://ths.gardenweb.com . These latter sites represent the very best in really personal chat and discussion and are probably the most heavily used on the web. There are also great sites sponsored by the PBS series “This Old House”, HGTV, and the Home and Garden section of the New York Times. Check some of these sites out but don’t forget to come back and see me and keep up with the latest from FAUCETMAN886 and please leave me some comments on what you think and what else you would like to read about.