Brother-in-Blog

Two of my most ardent blog readers are my mother-in-law and father-in-law. Maybe it is because things are slower in retirement or because anything that your children and their families do is interesting, but they seem to enjoy my ramblings. My wife has a sister and she has a husband. That makes us brothers-in-law. If you like to be excessive in your possessives, as in the Wikipedia definition, you could say "One's spouse's sister's husband is (also) considered a brother-in-law" or you could use their example: Rob and Gwen are married. Gwen has a Sister, Claire, and so Rob is Claire's brother-in-law. Claire will marry Neil, who will then become Gwen's Brother-in-law. Furthermore, Rob and Neil will become brothers-in-law to one another. Let's say I'm Rob, that makes Neil my brother in law. I'm not Rob and I'm not going to call him Neil, because that would get too confusing. I'm going to call him BILL, an acronym for Brother In Law Likeness. Is that clear now?
BILL and I have a lot in common. We both have married sisters in a crazy family (what family isn't crazy?). We are both living abroad in Europe with said spouses. Our spouses are both working, we aren't. We both do a lot of sweeping and cooking. We both walk the dogs. We both like music and play instruments. We both enjoy photography. We both like potty humor. And now we both have blogs that chronicle our seemingly parallel expat lives. See his at When Rome is Home.
BILL is a funny guy and I look forward to his witty entries. However, there is that sibling rivalry that creeps in. If you have siblings you know what I am talking about. I have brothers. BILL and I have wives that were sisters. There is always some level of competition there. Then you get married and you have to impress the in-laws. BILL is making his move to gain big points in the favorite son-in-law contest. Here is where he is gaining points: He has short, pithy entries with lots of photos; compare that to my long rambling posts, sometimes with no photos. Last I counted he was up to 11 blogalicious entries in the last week, currently I'm averaging 1-2/month. He uses a nice Wordpress blog format. I have this old-lady-wallpaper-looking template (I though it would give a nice classic central European look). BILL is a snazzy dresser. I am not.
BILL's wife encouraged him to start a blog: "Why don't you start a blog like you brother-in-law?" Now he has. Pretty soon my mother-in-law and father-in-law will be saying "Why don't you write more funny entries with lot of photos like BILL?" Or maybe they will be more subtle and say, "I haven't seen any entries from you in a while. Have you seen BILL's blog? I love his blog. He is so funny." The brother-in-law arms race is escalating. I know the pen/keyboard is mightier than the sword but if we can't resolve this here, I may need to challenge him to a gladiatorial duel at the Colosseum when we visit Rome for the holidays.