Finally, more than three years in, done a D Check on the
blog, and to my horror I discover that I’ve written 110 posts. This is 111.
I had to check the links on the “Earlier Posts: Start Here”
page to see if they went where they were supposed to go and the posts were
where they were supposed to be. Everything’s on the proper page, although once you
get to your page you may still have to scroll down some, because there can be
six or seven posts to a page. You’re forewarned about this in the introductory
text when you click on “Earlier Posts.”
But 110 posts? Good grief. Do I really have that many
interesting things to say? Probably not. But since I don’t expect that a whole
lot of people will be tuning in, the idea of the blog is partly to amuse myself
and partly an exercise in meeting deadlines.
And I mean that part about “exercise.” I think you can go
slack on meeting deadlines if you don’t keep in practice. The one outside one I
had to meet this past week was a “Here it is, 3PM, we need it back tonight” assignment.
You don’t want to be out of shape when one of those comes up. That’s the reason
for the anguish of the April 3 “Placeholder” post and the excuses in the January 19 post back in 2015.
All of which is not to say the deadline is more important
than the subject, but it’s important; when it’s time you may have to go with
what you’ve got, and not every post or column will sparkle. Anyone doing this
type of work will prudently try to stay ahead with a trunkful of ideas, but as
the world turns, something written then
may come to seem not as entertaining or clever or funny now. Print it anyway? Certainly
not. Unless you have nothing else ready.
Anyway, the links are working and the blue type is legible
if your eyes are good. If you’re looking for writing services, I would call
your attention to the posts listed under “Selling,” because most of the others
aren’t about that.
