Dear readers,
After eleven months of attempting to update almost daily — mostly successful — I, Mr. Topp, feel the need for a vacation.
There are factors involved. First, I am currently on a vacation from work, so it is a good time to step away from all things with screens. Second, I am planning to go away to a place that has no screens.
Last, but certainly not least, I am noticing that my blogging is less often up to snuff. Most certainly my writing schedules have not been observed for at least a month. When articles have gone up, they seem poorly constructed. For instance, on Tuesday I attempted to argue that the scoring system in Singstar favours bad karaoke over good karaoke. However I did not mention the point until two thirds of the way through the article. The information is presented poorly.
For the next week, I am going somewhere sunny to recharge. For the rest of December, I will continue to post articles, but not to a schedule. Come January, expect the Big Bad Blog to be bigger and badder than ever.
In my absence my good friend, the Silly Punk of No Fixed Address will fill in for me with some content for you. There also might be some Twitter action for those who follow me there.
I now leave you with some zombies and the opportunity to earn minimum wage.
Sincerely,
Mr. Topp
morning coffee, observations and opinions
break, meta blog, meta-post, minimum wage, observations and opinions, rest, travel, vacation, writing, zombies
It seems these days as though time is at a premium.
Now that I’ve begun fencing again, I am finding that I did a lot with those nine hours a week. It never felt like I did before, but there are simply too few hours in the day. If I work and fence, I can sometimes fit something else in. Likely a chore or a blog post. It’s a shame to have to choose.
On top of work, fencing and blogging, I have my other hobbies: Roleplaying and photography. Thus far I have still managed to take photographs once per week, and to play Dungeons and Dragons once per month. But rather than being ahead on all these things — doing more than what I consider to be the minimum — I find myself stretched to reach the point where what was previously considered the minimum is happening at all.
The Big Bad Blog is an excellent example of this. There have been too many missed articles, short articles, or poorly edited articles over the past several weeks. I apologize for this, and might adopt a looser schedule for myself if it continues — keeping the same amount of content, but holding myself to less of a schedule as the deadlines do not appear to be met in any case.
How about you? Are there any tools, tricks or techniques out there to keep me on top of a range of varied interests and obligations? If you have one, I’d love to hear from you.
In the meantime, I leave you with a turtle:
observations and opinions, photoblog
fencing, observations and opinions, procrastination, scheduling, time management, turtles, writing
