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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

Again and again

March 24, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Are you like me?  do you have a bunch of posts or post ideas in draft form that you just can’t seem to get done?  I have had one that is now 5 months in the working and still not finished.  I was going to finish it today, but, now I am not.  Today, I wanted to write about a quote that I found.

Now looking back on this blog, my most popular post was a podcast based on another quote, “Light a Candle instead of Cursing the Darkness.”    That one is about doing.  DOING.  Doing something.  Don’t complain about what you are given, do something about it.

Today, another quote with the same message.  Ready?  “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”  How is that?  Another, go out there, and do something.  Go do something positive in the face of what previously was considered diversity.  Do I do this?  Sometimes.  Should I do it more?  Most definitely.

So, how do you go about turning the adversity into the positive?  Most days I don’t know.  Some days I only want the adversity so I don’t seem so bad.  I don’t know what the answer is, the deep part of yourself that you have to find in order to go out there and do the positive.  I have been trying to find it for 39 years now, and I still don’t know.

I have been up and down my whole life, trying to find the positives, and, when I do find those, keep those positives in mind to create more.  I can’t say that it has worked, but it is there somewhere.  One of these days I will find out how to keep a hold of it and not piss it away like I have so many times.

How do you deal with adversity?  How do you go about dancing in the metaphorical rain?  Let me know, I need the help.

-Justin

Prioritizing and following through.

November 11, 2013 / / 6 Comments

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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

Writing for Writings Sake

November 11, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Just have to keep it up I say to myself.  Just do it.  How do you ever expect to make anything as a writer if you don’t write?  That is where I am today.  I did get some great Christmas shopping done and a few other things that I needed to do, but it took me quite  the long time to get around to writing.

See I have this problem, I like to procratinate and talk alot.  I am full of …..well knowledge among other things.  I have spent way too much time reading or “researching” how to do things instead of just doing them.

I started kettlebell training last February.  I read a bit then got some small kettlebells.  Then I read.  and Read.  And Read.  Trained a little, and read a lot.  If knowledge of the kettlebell were worth anything tangible, I would be rich.  As it is I am somewhat stronger and do like to use them, but I spend way too much time reading about them and complaining about Jillian Michaels doing it wrong.  Bah.

I am getting the same way about my writing.  I am finally getting off of my duff to write a book that I hope can be published within a year.  I have read tons  of blogs on writing and blogs just to read.  I have written very little.  I have ideas, I have well researched dates to be somewhat historically accurate.  I have barely 1000 words written.

I started this blog to write.  To force myself to write something without consequences.  To write something where the only deadline is midnight.  To force myself to craft, to craft sentences that are coherent and a cohesive message each day.  I can do it.  I have always been able to write fairly well, at least that is smoke that has been blown at me since elementary school.

Hopefully I will accomplish a decent blog.  I am going to work on it.  I will at least write for me whether or not anyone else reads it.  I owe ME that much.  Maybe I will find something of myself in all of these pixels and HTML codes.

Write on,

Justin

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