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 I told you this would be a metamorphosis of my new adventure in blogging. Many of you clicked the "Subscribe" button, but I cannot find anyone who did this. When you read this message, please let me know if you got an email and let me check mine. Please let me know by email or any other way.

 Thank you for your patience!
 – Doug

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Doug Maples said…
I did not get a notification. Anybody else?
February 9, 2019 at 3:56 PM
Doug Maples said…
still not getting everything right, but this commenting is looking better.
February 9, 2019 at 4:51 PM
Doug Maples said…
I made some adjustments and this time I got noticed on this post.
February 9, 2019 at 5:03 PM
vlmaples said…
I am seeing three replies here.
February 9, 2019 at 5:40 PM
Joe M Raper said…
I got an email notification at ~4:39 PM. I did subscribe yesterday and shortly after received an email to verify my subscription, which I did.
Joe

jmraper@jmraper.net
February 9, 2019 at 6:03 PM
Osh2Oz said…
I subscribed and immediately received a confirmation email.
February 9, 2019 at 10:04 PM
Jen Armerding said…
Is subscribing the same as following? I clicked on follow and it had me sign into my Gmail account. Now it says I'm following but there are only two or three other followers.
February 15, 2019 at 5:30 PM
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