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.

But one thing that has 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.

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 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.

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.

At any rate, two posts a day, sometimes more, is not a bad goal.

But one habit that’s not changed is the sheer volume of stories that I’d like 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.

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

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 style:

• Minneapolis wants to know how it’s music scene is doing. My response in one line: it was head, shoulders and ankles better in the ’80s.
• Minnesota DFL Legislative Majority rides to the Minneapolis City Council’s rescue on their Über/Lyft fiasco. Or at least they try to. Some people just don’t know enough to get rescued.
• Some people dream about living in their favorite TV show. The lucky (and fabulously wealthy) among us actually do it.
• Minnesota’s educational achievement is…mixed.
• Minimum Wage: We warned them, and warned them, and warned them some more. But did they listen?
• “Moriarty’s critics are circling“. I’m sorry, NYTimes, but it’s clear they are getting ready to pounce.

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