Well it’s got to the point that I’m struggling to afford myself the luxury of swanning about doing all things blog as and when the mood takes me. I’ve also been nagged into submission by my awfully good lady to earn a more honest crust considering we’re trying to get the deposit together for a house for when I finally get over to the States. The romance that is blogging for peanuts is at risk as the threat of no ‘proper romance’ is looming large if I don’t bloody well pull my finger out – as it were.
So when I was hoodwinked asked ever so nicely if I could cover the odd shift up at my local I thought it might just keep Stephanie off my back for a while and we’d be able to save a bit more money.
You see, it’s a tad tricky being in this Transatlantic limbo. For the past two years people have been asking me when I’ll be going and I’ve always categorically stated that I’d be off living the American dream in a couple of months. Twelve couple-of-months later and I’m still spouting the same old cobblers. It’s also very difficult not having a real base. It’s also quite bizarre working to a timescale that seems to expand exponentially. Oh, and I kinda miss the missus.
Also, do you understand how disconcerting it is to be constantly asked by people who you haven’t seen for most of the year when you’ll be going back. I wouldn’t mind so much if it wasn’t their opening gambit. Folks don’t even bother with a simple greeting any longer.
And now it looks like I’ll be doing my bon-viveur-bloke-behind-the-bar bit in a full time capacity.
I’ve also got our websites to sort out by Christmas and some other web related stuff to organise.
This doesn’t mean I’m giving up The Tinbasher – HELL NO.
It just means that I might just be posting a little less and reading the damn things considerably less (talk about a blessing in disguise).
We all know that blogs consume time like black holes consume light and gravity. So, it’s maybe time I taught myself the art of time management and to organise my shit better in general.
How would you like this place to turn into a sheet metal and booze blog for the next couple of months?
Or, what about a business blog troubleshooter where some halfwit goes from small business to small business blogging them back into the black……..
……..Now there’s an idea.
Comments
steven streight aka vaspers the grate
on 16/11/2005, 6:12 am
I keep raving about you and pumping you up, so if you leave me and my two or three readers high and dry, or wet and low, I’ll pull out my rake and rake you over the coals.
Now the jack rabbit of all trades is back with a vengeance, and the moon is ruby red. Smoke is coming out of the sun, and its crust is crumbling.
The UN wants to control the internet, Islamo-fascists are torching Europe, and business bloggers with no business and nearly no blog are kissing MSM butt.
And you say you’re forced to post less frequently.
Now you listen and listen good: you will post regularly, even if you, like me, have nothing to say, or I’ll pop a balloon over your head.
Paul Woodhouse
on 17/11/2005, 1:27 am
Bless your little cotton socks.
I’m not leaving anybody to flounder anywhere…..trust me.
It’s not that I have anything to say, just that I have to organise my time better to see what everybody else is saying.
I like to think of myself as a daily poster, ideally, but I know that’s probably never quite been the case and it certainly won’t be the case for a little while. For example, this past few days has seen me stopping up doing computer and web related stuff until 5 or 6 am and then getting up a couple of hours later to pop into BSM for the morning then trotting off to do a shift in the afternoon.
And I’m not even busy yet!
That’s why you’re even more important than ever to keep me in the loop.