A Sense of Doubt blog post #3124 - Another Return from Vacation - 2023 - Posts Collected and reprinting SoD #2025
Hello!
The "vacation" is over. Actually, I have been home for several days, but I extended the blog vacation to avoid going right back into production as soon as I got home. I learned this lesson last year. After my writer's retreat, I had too many things to do when I returned home and had not planned "low power mode" posts. I set a new record of 15 days behind before I started to catch up. Even then, once reaching 15 days behind, it was probably a full week until I was back on schedule and current and staying current.
I do not think I collected my writer's retreat posts last year. But I did take a long "blog vacation" in which I started the three-feature rotation of THAT ONE THING, a simple SHARE, and a REPRINT for 151 days!
Those are all collected here:
I will list them all below.
I do not think I collected my writer's retreat posts last year. But I did take a long "blog vacation" in which I started the three-feature rotation of THAT ONE THING, a simple SHARE, and a REPRINT for 151 days!
Those are all collected here:
Sunday, July 24, 2022
This time I started the vacation a few days before I left on Wednesday 8/23, and I am ending it today for a total of 16 days.
Unlike the blog vacation linked above from 2022 during which I did not go out of town at all, I did not rotate the three features but did mostly THAT ONE THING with a few shares and a couple of reprints.
Now back to normal production mode, which is often low power, even though not officially. I cannot always do much more than get something posted to fulfill my daily goal.
However, I feel that I have done a good job of better figuring out my work flow to get more original content completed and to tackle some of the ambitious posts that have been in the works of a long time, some for a few years.
Thanks for tuning in.
And a reprint...
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1211 (SoD #2025) - I Need to Take a Break
Hi Mom,
How are you?
You speak with heavenly beauty to me from the beyond. I hear you. Thank for staying by my side and yet not, and yet everywhere, and yet nowhere. It's as an aspect of Quantum Reality.
Was that too corny? Oh well. I don't care.
So, here's the thing.
I need to take a break.
I have been working a lot. I have been running hard. I have been making complicated and very time intensive posts with a lot of original writing, and I have been running this hard since the start of the pandemic quarantine.
And now it's time for a break, a little vacation.
I cannot really take a vacation during the pandemic. I can't really go anywhere safely, and even if I could, what about my dogs? I either take them with me, or I cannot go because I do not trust any place to properly and safely house them.
And doesn't Europe have a travel ban against people from the United States because our pandemic is so out of control?
I need some time off. I need to dial back the crazy train. I need a breather.
In my employment world, one of the two schools for which I work -- Lower Columbia College -- is on a break between quarters as we just finished summer quarter, and even though I had just one class, I put a lot of time into it. My other school is currently running, and I have two classes with it, so that's an issue. But my work load has dropped.
Further freeing occurred when the workshop I am taking ended Tuesday night, and we are about to start the Labor Day weekend, which prompted me to give all my current students extensions.
And so, I have more time free, and I would like to channel it elsewhere for a while.
Now what happens when a daily blogger takes a break?
After all, I could just stop posting for a while. No one is paying me, no one is holding a gun to my head, and unless you leave comments to disabuse me of this belief, I do not have that many avid and daily readers.
But, as I have always claimed, this blog is for me more than anything else. Sure, I think about audience a lot. I am often trying to reach my students. At other times, I have a broader view and hope by pushing the blog out there via social media with has tags that I will get more readers, at least for certain posts.
My numbers often support this "marketing."
A quick glance at my numbers shows that I reached a monthly high of 412 posts back on August 11th. I am not sure if this is related to the posts on or around that day because they do not have numbers of views that would total 412.
I tend to hover in the 40-50 page views a day on average with spikes of 126 (8/18) and 116 (8/31). My WEEKLY HODGE PODGE posts seem to be the most popular event of my week, always accumulating 30+ views with some topping out higher, such as #1978 currently at 110 views and #1963 at 83 (links below).
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1978 - "You Don't Vote For Kings!" - Weekly Hodge Podge 2007.18
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1963 - A symbol of hate? Weekly Hodge Podge for July Third
Therefore, it makes sense that even in my time off, taking a break, vacation, I should continue to produce the WEEKLY HODGE PODGE, which I had considered also taking a break from. But the HODGE PODGE does not cost me a ton of time as I read and accumulate material every morning. Plus this week's is dedicated to one of Obama's best speeches ever: A MORE PERFECT UNION.
So, to go back to the question of how a daily blogger takes a break?
EASY POSTS.
For instance, I have features called LOW POWER MODE, One Photo, and THAT ONE THING that allow me to keep my blog simple and easy to produce on a daily basis, which was the original concept for my T-shirts blog. I can even produce these easy posts in advance.
LOTS OF SHARING. I share anyway, but I can feature posts that just share other content with very little commentary from me; after all, I have 584 draft posts currently saved in my account, subtracting 95 for the weekly comic lists I accumulate and probably will never share, that leaves approximately 490-some posts that are half-finished, many of which already contain copies of material I want to share.
RESIST THE URGE OF COMPLICATIONS. I have tendency to overdo, over-commit, over-write. If I can KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID, then I can survive my time off, which I am thinking may need to last about two weeks with a return to the NEW NORMAL about September 17th.
ALSO, in the "time off," I will still be writing. I have longer blog posts that I want to devote time to finishing, and I am working on fiction in a much more dedicated way and other work stuff: two presentations to prep, classes to prep, job search, outdoor fun as summer wanes, new writer's groups.
So, that's that.
Thanks for reading.
Here we go into the sort of time off, sort of vacation, sort of low power mode.
DREAMS
ARG!!!!!!!! Trump was in my dream and so was Rebecca Watson.
Trump was my college professor. After he said something offensive in the class room when I had tuned him out and could not answer his question about house electrical amperage accurately. I said "fuck this" and prepared to leave the room and drop the class.
There was a break, and I encountered Trump in the hallway. I thought to myself that I should kiss his ass and curry his favor rather than dropping the class. I could probably get an A if I just stroked his ego constantly. I apologized for my out burst and begged his forgiveness. He appreciated my candor and HUGGED ME... yuk!
Later, I encountered Rebecca Watson (often blogged about, like HERE SoD#1880), and I was going to recommend a tacos place (in Portland?) and there was a lot of stress because I had to pick the place with the most amazing tacos AND a place where one could actually have the tacos in the pandemic (outdoor dining). Could I pick such a place?
Clearly, these dreams, especially TRUMP HUGGING ME (GAG) IS PROOF THAT I need a break.
Thanks for tuning in.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Monday, August 28, 2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Friday, September 1, 2023
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Sunday, September 3, 2023
Monday, September 4, 2023
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
And a reprint...
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1211 (SoD #2025) - I Need to Take a Break
Hi Mom,How are you?
You speak with heavenly beauty to me from the beyond. I hear you. Thank for staying by my side and yet not, and yet everywhere, and yet nowhere. It's as an aspect of Quantum Reality.
Was that too corny? Oh well. I don't care.
So, here's the thing.
I need to take a break.
I have been working a lot. I have been running hard. I have been making complicated and very time intensive posts with a lot of original writing, and I have been running this hard since the start of the pandemic quarantine.
And now it's time for a break, a little vacation.
I cannot really take a vacation during the pandemic. I can't really go anywhere safely, and even if I could, what about my dogs? I either take them with me, or I cannot go because I do not trust any place to properly and safely house them.
And doesn't Europe have a travel ban against people from the United States because our pandemic is so out of control?
I need some time off. I need to dial back the crazy train. I need a breather.
In my employment world, one of the two schools for which I work -- Lower Columbia College -- is on a break between quarters as we just finished summer quarter, and even though I had just one class, I put a lot of time into it. My other school is currently running, and I have two classes with it, so that's an issue. But my work load has dropped.
Further freeing occurred when the workshop I am taking ended Tuesday night, and we are about to start the Labor Day weekend, which prompted me to give all my current students extensions.
And so, I have more time free, and I would like to channel it elsewhere for a while.
Now what happens when a daily blogger takes a break?
After all, I could just stop posting for a while. No one is paying me, no one is holding a gun to my head, and unless you leave comments to disabuse me of this belief, I do not have that many avid and daily readers.
But, as I have always claimed, this blog is for me more than anything else. Sure, I think about audience a lot. I am often trying to reach my students. At other times, I have a broader view and hope by pushing the blog out there via social media with has tags that I will get more readers, at least for certain posts.
My numbers often support this "marketing."
A quick glance at my numbers shows that I reached a monthly high of 412 posts back on August 11th. I am not sure if this is related to the posts on or around that day because they do not have numbers of views that would total 412.
I tend to hover in the 40-50 page views a day on average with spikes of 126 (8/18) and 116 (8/31). My WEEKLY HODGE PODGE posts seem to be the most popular event of my week, always accumulating 30+ views with some topping out higher, such as #1978 currently at 110 views and #1963 at 83 (links below).
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1978 - "You Don't Vote For Kings!" - Weekly Hodge Podge 2007.18
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1963 - A symbol of hate? Weekly Hodge Podge for July Third
Therefore, it makes sense that even in my time off, taking a break, vacation, I should continue to produce the WEEKLY HODGE PODGE, which I had considered also taking a break from. But the HODGE PODGE does not cost me a ton of time as I read and accumulate material every morning. Plus this week's is dedicated to one of Obama's best speeches ever: A MORE PERFECT UNION.
So, to go back to the question of how a daily blogger takes a break?
EASY POSTS.
For instance, I have features called LOW POWER MODE, One Photo, and THAT ONE THING that allow me to keep my blog simple and easy to produce on a daily basis, which was the original concept for my T-shirts blog. I can even produce these easy posts in advance.
LOTS OF SHARING. I share anyway, but I can feature posts that just share other content with very little commentary from me; after all, I have 584 draft posts currently saved in my account, subtracting 95 for the weekly comic lists I accumulate and probably will never share, that leaves approximately 490-some posts that are half-finished, many of which already contain copies of material I want to share.
RESIST THE URGE OF COMPLICATIONS. I have tendency to overdo, over-commit, over-write. If I can KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID, then I can survive my time off, which I am thinking may need to last about two weeks with a return to the NEW NORMAL about September 17th.
ALSO, in the "time off," I will still be writing. I have longer blog posts that I want to devote time to finishing, and I am working on fiction in a much more dedicated way and other work stuff: two presentations to prep, classes to prep, job search, outdoor fun as summer wanes, new writer's groups.
So, that's that.
Thanks for reading.
Here we go into the sort of time off, sort of vacation, sort of low power mode.
DREAMS
ARG!!!!!!!! Trump was in my dream and so was Rebecca Watson.
Trump was my college professor. After he said something offensive in the class room when I had tuned him out and could not answer his question about house electrical amperage accurately. I said "fuck this" and prepared to leave the room and drop the class.
There was a break, and I encountered Trump in the hallway. I thought to myself that I should kiss his ass and curry his favor rather than dropping the class. I could probably get an A if I just stroked his ego constantly. I apologized for my out burst and begged his forgiveness. He appreciated my candor and HUGGED ME... yuk!
Later, I encountered Rebecca Watson (often blogged about, like HERE SoD#1880), and I was going to recommend a tacos place (in Portland?) and there was a lot of stress because I had to pick the place with the most amazing tacos AND a place where one could actually have the tacos in the pandemic (outdoor dining). Could I pick such a place?
Clearly, these dreams, especially TRUMP HUGGING ME (GAG) IS PROOF THAT I need a break.
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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