Published for Thursday - February 20, 2025

Written Sunday - 02/16/25 01:20 PM

Why is writing ahead so comfortable? It's because there's no pressure on a delivery date.

But if I have to insert a prioity post in all of these comfortably written posts, it's going to take some real time and effort to pull it off. I'm going to have to have the write stuff to do it.

I know, that was really bad. I know what you're thinking and it's not pretty. Give me a break. After all, I'm not asking for money or a subscription for what I'm posting here.

When I went looking for a picture to put in my 'Comfortable Writing' post, I couldn't find anything that grabbed me the right way. After all, I'm not tying to place my hand, or my entire body (for that matter) in a comfortable position. I'm not writing a traning piece either. This is not complicated.

This is just a post about why it's comfortable to write ahead and, like I said, the simple answer to the question is because there is no time pressure.

If I don't feel like writing I can simply fall back on something I've already put together. Well, that is as long as I have something on which to fall back.

So, my objective should be to avoid any pressure. And the simple way to do that is to keep active in the write-ahead category. The more I write ahead, the less pressure that comes from the effort and the more enjoyable the entire effort becomes.

I think I'm going to add a new category to my list. Writing! So, there you go and here goes! I will probably go back and add a few recent posts to that category.

Published for Monday - February 17, 2025

Written Sunday - 02/16/25 08:15 PM

So, here's an example of a timely blog post. I had to insert it in place and bump the pre-written and blank posts out one spot. There was more effort required than I had anticipated.

Last night was a strange night. The thunder and lightning woke me up. But once I was awake I realized something.

First of all, it was between 1 and 2 am. Next, I was soaking wet. I had changed things up just a bit and paid a dear price for it.

I was soaked because I had the big blue cover all to myself and Patty was using the heavy cover. I had folded the big blue cover in half and had it doubled up on top of me. I slept wonderfully but that's also why I was soaking wet.

I had placed my ipad by my bed and cut it on as I had planned to do. Unfortunately, Ryan Hall was talking about the storms in every location except Alabama. I must admit I was impressed that he was still going strong.

Anyway, I made the change to my iPad weather system and sure enough the storms were right on top of us as the weather map indicated.

I grabbed two towels and tried to make a dry spot to sleep in. After lots of effort I was able to do it because the next thing I know the cat's in our bed and trying her best to wake me up.

I got on up and the morning routine was pretty much the same as usual from there. The main exception was that I looked outside to see what the wind had moved out of place. To my surprise most everything was okay despite how much wind and rain had rolled through.

The deck sofa was moved as usual but all of the pillows were still in place. I did notice that the upper deck was soaked. That would suggest there was a northernly flow to the wind despite the forecasted SW winds.

Finally the dead big tree in the back hard shed another big limb that I will have to get and throw into the woods behind the house. I'll probably wait until things dry out a bit before I tackle that job.

Oh, by the way, I was also impressed that the cleanup I had perfomed during the day yesterday had held up. That's especially with the northern air flow that I mentioned earlier.

Published for Sunday - February 16, 2025

Written Friday - 02/14/25 08:50 AM

So, what qualifies a post as a non-timely post? That's an easy question to answer.

It's nothing that's date specific or a trending topic in the world. Date specific things and trending topics (such as the weather or a Holiday) don't fit into the non-timely category for obvious reasons.

I mentioned Ryan Hall Y'all as an internet weather junkie. I shared that my wife is a faithful follower and that she put me onto him. If I were to share one of his weather related ideas that would probably make it a timely post. In fact, most all of his thoughts are pretty timely.

A spiritual post on the other hand could easily fit into the non-timely category. Spiritual posts contribute to our lives as they are posted, when ever that might be.

On the other hand, if a well known spiritually oriented person passes away, that would make it a timely bit of news and probably of immediate interest to those of us who are spiritually minded.

Published for Saturday - February 15, 2025

Written Thursday - 02/13/25 11:35 AM

Well, I'm sure I'll continue to struggle with so many things about this blog, but I've come up with one solid idea. From now on I know when I'm going to write a post.

I'm going to sit down and write multiple posts way ahead of their publication date. If something timely appears, I'll either add it as an addendum or I'll write it for an immediate post - probably for the next day.

I doubt I'll be writing many addendums for they tend to be difficult to manage. If I want to write a timely post and publish it in a more timely fashion, I'll just put it in place of one of the multiple (non-timely) posts and bump that (non-timely) post out to the next available post opening.

That way, timely posts always take priority, but to earn a higher priority a post is going to have to clearly demonstrate that it is truly a timely post.

In other words, to clearly earn a spot of importance and bring about the overhead to replace another post, a higher priority post will have to justify the extra effort that will be involved.

Bottom line, this means that for the most part I can write comfortably and insert priority posts when necessary. I think this is going to work well.

Published for Monday - February 03, 2025

Written Monday - 02/02/25 02:55 PM

I don't know. This writing the evening before publication puts me at risk of failing to write a post here on my blog because of simple distractions.

But I also understand that writing ahead places the entire blog at risk based on the relevance factor that I described in a previous post. If I write too far ahead how relevant will the post be?

I guess the real question is whether or not I want to write posts in the morning or the evening. Writing in the evening is a better all-around experience for me but also places posts at risk for relevance.

if I wait a full day to publish. Writing in the morning may be better in terms of keeping the post closer to it's publication date but is more difficult in terms of trying to wake up enough to come up with a good idea for a post and to execute on preparing a good post for that topic or idea.

So, perhaps I should decide what constitutes a good post and work from that direction. Let's see...

For me a good post consists of some or all of the following:

* Pertinent content
* Entertaining content
* Honest content
* Timely content
* Interesting content
* Vulnerable content

A Spiritual post is always a good place to start. That requires waiting upon God if it is to meet the other criteria I have listed here.

Of course I have other topics that interest me here on my blog and if one of those topics has a pressing matter, then it might serve as a good starting point.

As for what I started out writing about in this post, I'm leaning toward writing a post in the evening and publishing it the next morning (or possibly the same evening that I wrote it if I feel up to it and it seems right for that particular instance.)

I think I'll give that a try and see how it works out. Seems like it should be a good (and flexible) solution for my issue.

Oh and I still want to follow through with creating a blog post for each and every day. Not sure why (since a huge readership is not the ultimate goal here.) But, that's the plan until I change my mind.