If I have set things right, you will not be able to reply.

I did this for several reasons. I am going to be talking about some personal issues that come up in my life and that I am dealing with, and I am not writing about them to get feedback, or comments, information or opinions. I just have something that I want to say, and walk away from. Also, this is a blog, and as such, I want the posts to stay in order. Replies will knock the posts out of order, and I am too OCD to be able to deal with that. So I am not going to allow it to happen. So this forum should be set to read only for you guys.

The PM option is there for a reason

If you do have a comment, or something you'd like to say, if you have a subject you'd like for me to discuss, please, feel free to PM me. Depending on the topic I might not get back to you, but I will read and consider what you have had to say.

Some of the things in this blog are going to be personal and of an adult nature

That means if you cannot handle the frank talk of drugs, sex, politics, crime, and anything else that might pop into my mind, then do not read this blog.
The first complaint from anyone about the content of this blog, and the blog becomes password protected, and the complainer is permabanned from reading this blog, it is as simple as that.

I could have been anywhere on the net, I chose to be here

What that means is I could have decided to set up a new MySpace, and filled that with my random ramblings. Or Facebook, or what have you. I could have signed up for LiveJournal, and chose to spill my guts to a bunch of complete strangers.
That to me is the cowards way.
I chose to be here, to do this here, in front of you, people that I consider friends and family, which takes a lot more guts than telling anonymous strangers my life.

If I think of anything else, you can bet I will add it to the pile.