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Category: Rants! (Page 7 of 11)

Don’t Mind If I Did!

March 24, 2014 / / 4 Comments

Way back a week ago I got a couple of comments that made me do something impetuous. I started another blog called Cantankerous Old Coots. You can read the story of its birth here.

Well over the past week it has grown a bit and developed some traction of its own.  Our patron Coot Ralph has posted the manifesto of Cantankerousness and has several great ideas ready to roll.  He has also shamelessly plugged the site here.

We are working on getting together a Consortium of Coots to post sage wisdom and general discontent.  As Ralph put it in his plug: ” Don’t expect to learn anything or develop your lifestyle.  It won’t make you a financial powerhouse or a software guru…..   But if you do decide to drop by, beware,  you might just find out that you are a cantankerous old coot too and then there is no turning back.”  (edits by me, go read the real post) Be warned, any sort of cantankerousness or ranting in a comment will earn you a guest post that must be fulfilled.

This blog is not about all of the typical crap that we blog about.  That is important on Catharsis of the Bogue so there will be no tolerance for anti blogging propaganda.  The Coots however….

The Coots will be fun.  It will be spearheaded by the Great Old Coots led by Ralph, as long as his fingers and his temper do not run out on him.  It will be filled with English and not modern slang.  It will not be a site to get all fluffy and tender with.  We will tell it like it is.   We will vent and say pretty much what the FCC and the First Amendment will let us.

So, head on over to Cantankerous Old Coots and take a step back from political correctness and fluffy feelgoods to get a laugh with a bunch of old coots spouting off about whatever comes up.

Leave a comment here and head over to the Coots and see what is happening!

-Justin

Prioritizing and following through.

November 11, 2013 / / 6 Comments

Image Copyright Futuristic FunkaHunk from Flickr

I have been sitting here all morning reading blog posts and crap from around the net.  I am having a hard time focusing on writing.  I need more sleep.   Jefferson Airplane is good tunes to write to.

Today, I have several things that I simply must get done.  I have been running around to various functions, doctors appointments and Transplant Clinics since Saturday.  As a result, my house is falling apart!  You may have read my stay at home dad stuff before, so that is why it is my responsibility to get it back together.  I am home to do it.

And then the Hooters come on.  And We Danced is one of my all time favorite songs.  See that is what today has been.  distraction after distraction.  Music is off.

Back to my point.  I don’t know if I ever made it but, Prioritizing must be important because there are over 2,480,000 entries on google about it.  I am not good at prioritizing but maybe I should be.

I have the proverbial planner that barely gets looked at.  I have a notecard in my pocket right now with all of the great and fabulous things that I need to do today.  I was conservative and not including making dinner, there were 8 things on my list.

I have done 2 things off of this list.  I guess I should have added Bath 3 year old, play dough with 3 year old, potty training sessions and my list would have been longer with more crossed off.

I look at this list and think all of the things on it should be Steven Covey’s number 1 priority.  I however, do not have 12 arms or 2 bodies to accomplish all of these things at once.  So I disregard priorities and  go for sequence.  What sequence can I be most efficient.  I guess dishes come before laundry because they stink.

I should hire a maid but that would mean I need to sell a hell of a lot more articles than I am right now.  So I am going to call this post finished.  For now.  I think I will revisit this topic at a later time.

I am working on the challenge put out on Zemalf’s Microblog to write 2 weeks worth of posts to keep in reserve for days like this.  That means 10 posts and not the three I have been working towards.  I am putting it out here and in writing so I will have some accountability and hopefully, will complete this soon.

I am going to write more tonight.  I hope to at least be 1 day ahead at all times.  If I can write tonight what will post in the morning then I can post at the same time each day and that can’t be bad right?

Join the fun and write lots of extra posts!  If all else fails you can be like James at the Infopreneur and post 2-3 per day until your supply runs out!

Until later, Cheers

Justin

The Stupidest Comments of the Olympics

November 11, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Hello all.  Well I am late posting now but finally my server is back up so I have access to my website.  It is kind of funny how you can have a small panic attack when you can’t access your stuff.  I also can’t seem to write very much on word for blog posts.  Dunno why that is.

Anyhow, I have been watching the Olympics lately like many other people around the world.  I have noticed that there are several of the commentators who seem to be there just because there was an opening and they needed a job.  Sometime late the night before the event they are on Wikipedia to learn something about the sport before they get on the air.

I am further convinced that they had a meeting of all the commentators before the Olympics and a challenge was thrown down.  “The person with the stupidest comment that is still in some sort of context with the sport will win!”  I don’t know what they will win besides a lifetime of humiliation and scorn from the broadcast community.  Nah, it won’t go that far, even Marv Alpert is back after he did his jail time.

The first set of stupid comments that my wife and I noticed were during the pairs skating.  The woman commenting told us that the audience was clapping to help the skaters out and keep them motivated.  It couldn’t have possibly been because the music became rousing and people were actually having fun in the audience.

Second entry:  Women’s downhill.  The commentator actually said “The one who crosses the finish line with the fastest time will win the gold!”  No #%^@ Sherlock.  This is my third favorite stupid quote of all time behind a football commentator, “The team that scores the most points will take this one!”  and a basketball commentator for the Utah Jazz, “If you get the ball in the basket more times than the other team you are going to win.”

Back to the Olympics: Third entry: Biathalon.  One of the ladies took a water bottle from the support staff and took a drink.  Happens all of the time I would assume.  That is a lot of skiing.  I would be thirsty.  The commentator said, “She is taking the time to get a drink, there is a long way to go and she needs to keep her body going.  Probably some sort of sport drink in there.”  As opposed to what an ice cold Coca Cola and get a sponsor credit in there?

I am sure there are many more that I have either not heard or can’t remember.  There was one at either the skating or the luge track that said something like “The ice has to stay cold or it will melt.”  There are some beauties out there.  Anyone else hear one that I have missed they would like to submit for the contest?

I have to go and prewrite something now.  Thanks for reading.

Justin

You Are My Blog and You Will Submit To My Will!

November 11, 2013 / / 8 Comments

I have spent most of today working on setting up a shopping cart to handle the millions of orders that will be coming into my blog when I start to sell stuff.  Do I need to do this or should I just build a couple of pages and call it good?

At this point I am not sure.  It has been a bunch of work and I still don’t have much done.  I am seriously questioning my logic on this.  I think the thing that makes me the most mad is that I just can’t let it go and let it beat me right now.  Damn you PHP I will reach into your guts and squeeze until I get what I want.

Wow what a rant I had prepared but it has now all but fizzled out.  I designed a new logo, figured out a new drawing program, made some buttons, and now I am going to shelve the whole works for a couple of days.  I need to write and get out and comment on some blogs!  I need to wait until I actually have a product to offer.

Quick poll, does a professional looking shopping cart make any difference to you or do paypal buttons get the job done and suffice?  Please give me some input either here in comments, or by email, or by pony express, or by signing up for my newsletter! (First issue on St Patricks Day!)

I may not be an authority on WordPress yet, but I refuse to let it dictate the way my blog will behave!  That is why I moved from WordPress.com to .org, so that I could have total control over my site.  It is kind of funny to think about that because I am not generally that controlling.  But I will rule this blog with an Iron fist and throw the interlopers overboard!

Have I ever mentioned, I really like pirates?  BTW Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19th.

So the long and short of it is this, no matter who you are, you need to own your blog, your site and your online experience.  The hardest part is to look inside yourself and find the drive and resolution to grab that blog by the throat and throttle it until it says “Uncle!”  And if you don’t, I will be by to pillage your site soon.

Let’s spread the word and the word is ARRRRRRR!!

Justin

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