On blogging

Well, my New Year's resolution of blogging every day has fallen by the wayside. I had hoped to post one good post each day for a year, but the last week was just too hectic to allow me to do that. I started teaching a NACE CP 1 course last Sunday (March 5th), and the week following (March 12-16) is the NACE conference in San Diego. I would get home between 6 and 7 pm, have a quick dinner, and then put in a couple of hours on the computer to keep up with my email, finish up the preparations for committee meetings at conference, and take care of other odds and ends, like laundry, dry cleaning, selling my Land Cruiser, and paying the bills. I had to have everything done by Friday morning, including packing, since I was flying to San Diego immediately after the class was done. So I haven't had a full night's sleep until last night, and then I only got one extra hour because I sat in an exam-writing workshop from 8am to 5pm today.

So, what's new? The guy who bought my Land Cruiser decided he didn't want it, canceled the check and returned it. The lady who hit my car after Christmas still won't respond to her insurance company, and they won't pay me until they hear her side of the story. The guy who's working on restoring my GTO still hasn't done anything on it yet, except to get it running. More of the same. I did turn around and sell the Land Cruiser to the second highest bidder, but for less money. Overall, I got a little more than I thought I would, and the guy knows exactly what he's getting, so I'm satisfied. I wrote a letter to the insurance company saying that their failure to contact their client didn't indemnify them, and that I would take them to court, and I wrote another letter to the lady who hit me, at another possible address. And I'll give the mechanic a call when I get back home. Nothing is easy anymore, you can't accomplish anything without having to follow up and follow up and follow up.

I'm going to try to finish the computer buying article this week, I have at least one more part to do. And from now on, I'm going to post when I have both something to say and the time to say it. That may be daily, but more likely it will be 4-5 times a week. Looking back at the last two months of posts, I was very satisfied with the content, much more so than the posts from when I started this blog almost three years ago.