Double Your Blogging Fun
Posted on | June 7, 2008 at 10:54 pm | 2 Comments
Yoo hoo, I’m back!
You may or may not have figured it out, but I’ve been on vacation for the last week. The last seven entries were composed in advance and posted via my iPhone. The iPhone is great for hitting the “Publish” button but not so great at actually composing entries (I can’t wait for Apple to add copy/paste to it). It was kind of dicey, because I was mostly in an area with bad cell phone reception and no WiFi. Having to depend on AT&T’s EDGE network is a risky proposition, and oh so very very slow, especially with bad reception. And in one out-of-the-way area, I had no reception at all. Luckily I wasn’t there for too long. So, I managed. It’s better than the days of the Palm PDA, when I had Internet access only via WiFi.
When I commented a few weeks ago that I was getting burned out and would probably take some time off from blogging (since Steve finally missed a day on his blog), I was anticipating doing very little (or no) blogging while on the week-long vacation. But then I got a burst of writing energy the week before I left. If you think that composing an entry a day is hard, try composing two week’s worth of entries in one week! That was a busy week. Those Kayak entries are especially time-consuming, since I have to listen to the album while writing about it. I think everyone should try the two-entries-a-day discipline for a period, just to see how fun it is.
And how was the vacation? Just fine until the end. Got a lot of relaxing in, got some reading done, spent a lot of quality time with the gf, lost some money. But more on all that later, maybe. The bad part was two-fold. I somehow threw out my back today – I think it was when I was loading my suitcase into the rental car for the drive to the airport. A day of driving the rental car (2.5 hours to the airport) and then sitting in a plane for nearly 4 hours didn’t help much. The back muscles are all tight and I can barely stand or walk. I have only myself to blame – if I had actually exercised, or at least stretched, during the vacation, it probably wouldn’t have happened.
And then when I got to my car in Denver (which I had parked at the Stapleton Park ‘n Ride so I could take the SkyRide to and from DIA), the battery was dead. Looks like I left an inside light on. A dead battery on a Prius is a freaky proposition. I was able to use the manual key to get into the car and open the hood, but even with that, you can’t open the back doors or the trunk. You can’t even open those from the inside. Or at least I couldn’t find a way. Oh wait… maybe there’s a manual switch for the trunk? I don’t know. Anyway, I ended up having to call AAA to give me a jump. We actually had to consult the owner’s manual, because neither I or the tow truck driver was actually sure about how to jump start a Prius. Yes, it can be done. Good thing the car didn’t need to be towed, because that would’ve been an iffy proposition inside the covered parking at Stapleton, much of which has too low clearance and/or too narrow a lane for a tow truck to do its stuff. But luckily the jump box worked.
So I got home an hour or so later than I expected I would, in so much pain from my locked-up back that I can barely shuffle around the house. Now I’m catching up on BSG and then I think I’m going to hit the warm, inviting bed without even unpacking for once. I’m just glad the back didn’t go out earlier in the vacation, because there sure was a lot of walking involved.
Thanks to all who commented on my blog posts when I was gone. I would’ve done more replies, but there was that whole iPhone reception thing going on.
Latre.
P.S. This is being posted at almost 11pm in my current timezone (MDT). If I were still on east coast time, it would be 1am and I would’ve missed a day! I guess that’s one good thing about these long 14-hour days that happen when you travel west across two timezones.
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2 Responses to “Double Your Blogging Fun”
June 7th, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
Hi there,
I looked over your blog and it looks really good. Do you ever do link exchanges on your blog roll? If you do, I’d like to exchange links with you.
Let me know if you’re interested.
Thanks..
June 8th, 2008 @ 12:54 am
It’s plain to everyone you’re fishing for a “phoned it in” joke, but I’m not gonna bite.