Bad Blogger I am.
At least six times in the past week, I’ve said (either to myself, or to a room full of people in perfect ADD fashion in the middle of a sentence about something totally different,) “Oh, that would so totally make a great blog post!” and then done absolutely nothing with it.
I’ve no one to blame but myself. And everyone who’s helped make Help A Reporter cross 21,000 members in under 19 weeks. Yeah, all of you, too.
But that’s cool. No excuse to not blog, though. So I promise to try and keep it up a little better. And I’ll also work on finding another Happy Friday Video for tomorrow.
Thanks for sticking with me.
-Peter
PS: On the plus side, I had a client meeting today where we brainstormed two AWESOME ideas. If the client approves them, it’ll be like the Harrah’s Take Over the Tower event, and I’ll blog about it from beginning to end.
PPS: I bought a new car yesterday, which I hope will guilt me into getting out of the office more, even if just to run up to the Ranch, get one skydive in, and run home. And before you give me ANY green planet crap WHATSOEVER, know that unless you live in NYC like me, in a certified green building like me, and drive as little as I do, then chances are, I could leave all my lights on, 24-hours a day, for an entire year, while continuously pouring unrefined motor oil on a flock of Penguins, and still have a carbon footprint that’s 10x less than yours on any given day. So Nyah.
8 Responses to “Bad Blogger I am.”
While I appreciate your point about city living/minimal driving (I have a car that’s nearly 8 years old that just crossed the 60K mile threshold), defending your carbon footprint by talking about driving all the way to the Ranch by yourself to get just “one skydive in” isn’t really helping your case. If you’re going to drive 90 miles … at least get in a few more jumps.
Nyah. Enjoy your new toy.
It warms my heart to know that even you have difficulty fitting in blogging. While we stress the importance to clients and try to ourselves, it is hard!!!
Kiss a penguin.
ditto on the getting more than one skydive in - it’s always easier to ratchet down than up!
A minor quibble, though NOT an attempt to guilt-load you - plane travel is a huge kicker on the footprint issue, but I don’t know where you stand on offsets. When I was living in NYC, I figured I’d blow my suburban friends out of the water when we compared our stats on one of the carbon footprint sites. I was vastly ahead until my flying to CA multiple times a year got factored in; then I dropped down to the middle of the pack. My friends weren’t quite merciless, but I got crap for it for a while!
While continuously pouring unrefined motor oil on a flock of penguins… lmao
Peter, thanks for commiserating. I can truly sympathize with the guilt over not blogging as frequently as we set our expectation.
I’m a fairly new blogger and just love it, but my promise to myself to post every day was creating a lot of stress. I now realize it’s much more realistic to set my sights on posting every other day. This I can manage. I think the quality of the posts is better too.
HARO is a terrific service. I’ve been a member for about a month, but haven’t participated yet. Something will come along that will be a good fit. Meantime, I’m really enjoying scrolling through the varied, sometimes hilarious, topics.
Thanks for coming up with this innovative idea and putting it out there for us.
It’s comforting to knwo that there are more of us out there!
Enjoy your new toy!
i’m glad i learned about the ‘help a reporter’ link. a good friend of mine is a journalist in sacramento. i’ll send him the link.
sweet new car…i’m jealous. the only thing cool about my car is that it’s called a lexus. no bells or whistles in my old ride and i don’t think gps had even been an option back when she came out of the factory.
this is my first time reading your blog. i think i’ll come back for more.