{"id":87351,"date":"2024-04-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87351"},"modified":"2024-04-15T09:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:32:32","slug":"clearing-the-decks-4-19-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87351","title":{"rendered":"Clearing The Decks: 4\/19 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In one sense, this blog hasn’t changed much in the 22 years I’ve been running it. I get up early, I write stuff. For the past 20 years, it’s doubled as show prep for the Saturday NARN. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one thing that has <\/em>changed is the pace. I used to shoot for four posts a day, and frequently posted much, much more. These days, I stay consistent at 2\/day – 6AM and 11AM. That’s actually a habit I picked up during blogging’s heyday – about 2\/3 of the visits for the day came before 9AM, with another surge around lunch. I wanted to give people a reason to come back at lunch, so there was (and is) always a post at 11AM Central. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s probably a sign of how under-challenged I was back then. I sort of put career in the back seat between 2000 and probably 2012-ish; I had kids to raise. Which meant I had jobs where I really wasn’t that <\/em>challenged. I had dribs and drabs of time during a not-overly-challenging workday to throw together rough drafts and story links to get to during my usual writing time, 5-6:30 AM – my “Me” time during my decade-plus with a couple of kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The career is back on my front burner, and going very well, thanks (knock wood); it’s been a blessing. I’ll go into more details some other time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At any rate, two posts a day, sometimes more, is not a bad <\/em>goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But one habit that’s not <\/em>changed is the sheer volume of stories that I’d like <\/em>to write about. I open them up in tabs, intending to blog about them, leaving them open until I do, and making a point of closing the tabs out when the story is done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means every few weeks I have a browser with 40 open tabs, with stories I’ll never get to, largely out of date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what the heck – insteads of just nuking the browser full of tabs from orbit, let’s just bang out a bunch of them in one post, Instapundit <\/em>style:<\/p>\n\n\n\n