When Life Interferes with Blogging
I need to make one thing perfectly clear to anyone and everyone who may click on my winged Pig. Whether you make that mouse click on purpose or end up here purely on accident, please be aware that “I LOVE BLOGGING!!!” I like the feeling of pounding away, sometimes aimlessly, on my keyboard. Then proofreading my work, editing, re-emphasizing and publishing to my very minute piece of the internet. I am often indifferent to the reactions of others and sometimes I take responses personal or to heart.
Rest assured, if you don’t see a post from me for more than 10-12 days…Life has gotten in the way of my sports writer/editorialist/comedic genius alter-ego that I portray here at RSB. What a perfect world it would be for me to turn my back on the rigors of real life to sit at my laptop and create nothing but blogs. I would blog about my Detroit Sports teams. I would blog about the growing pains that the University of Michigan will experience over the next few years. I would blog about our exiled Mayor who, on his way out the door, threw Michigan’s Governor under the bus for the wrong reasons. I would blog about the Democratic and Republican Conventions. I would blog once again about how anyone who votes for the Democratic candidate has got his/her head placed firmly up their ass and their sphincter muscle is cutting off oxygen to their brain.
Alas, the real world seems to get in the way of our leisure and preferred activities. I sometimes feel cheated that there are not 30 hours in the day so I can fit in all of what needs to be done. Yet I realize that extending the day by six hours would only give my employer a reason to keep me at my desk for an additional four.
Without going into extreme and boring detail, I will try to shove all of my past two months into a vastly undersized nutshell.
I changed jobs in February and hired a new staff. Then I had to fire one of the key players that I had hired. Then my company placed a hiring freeze and I am stuck with dividing up tasks amongst the remaining staff including myself.
After 11 years of putting things off, my wife and I decided to gut and remodel both of our bathrooms, remove the stucco celing in our Famiy Room and re-drywall it, remodel a spare bedroom into a nursery and repaint four rooms. Of course our contractor was delayed with family emergencies, back-ordered parts, supposed mis-communications with me, a cell phone that he would not answer and a house in total disarray for the past 2 1/2 months. My punch list is small but there is still a bathroom counter top that has yet to be resurfaced, floor and celing moldings that have not been installed, light fixtures that are still sitting in the contractors warehouse and a perfectionist wife who would put six coats of paint on a wall simply because there is paint left in the can.
My youngest daughter has started her Senior year at Western Michigan University. She is a nursing student in a very aggressive program that rightfully expects a great deal from our future care givers. My daughter decided to move from one Condo to another while keeping up with her studies, working 25-30 hours a week, studying for MCAP’s and preparing to be commissioned into the United States Navy upon her graduation.
Then my older daughter and her second baby in less than 18 months. What can I say about that…those kids are fertile. It wasn’t too long ago that I was introducing all of you to my first Grand-Pigglet who quickly became the apple of my eye. Then my daughter and son-in-law divulged the news that they couldn’t keep it in their pants and were expecting another baby. NOW…many say that the second and subsequent babies are easier and the first one is the toughest. Well, not in this case. She had a rough go of it but we all pulled through and I am the bubbling proud Grandpa-Pig to our second baby-boy Grandpigglet. He entered the world a whopping 22 1/2 inches long and 9lbs 12ozs. Now that’s a big freaking kid and nearly dwarfs his older brother who was 21 inches and 8.6 pounds.
The dust is still settling and I’m regaining some normalcy in my crazy world. Yet I am ever cautiously optimistic that the normalcy will sustain itself for more than a few days. I have missed all of my blogging family and please be aware that I will never stay away longer than absolutely necessary.
It’s good to be back!!!
Proofreading? The hell you say!
Just a friendly visit, nothing to worry about.
I was just talking with my good friend Kenrick. And if you’d like…I can get him to proofread your title for you. What exactly does “interfear” mean? Is that when you’re afraid that small rodents will enter your asshole in your sleep? Or is it strictly a prison term?
Also, next time you are going to throw around a mindless insult about Democrats…might want to proofread that too.
“has got his/her ass placed firmly up their ass”
How do you put your ass firmly up your ass?
Keep it up. I’ll have Kenrick clear out the top bunk in Cell D.
Comment by Sheriff of Grammarville — September 5, 2008 @ 10:23 am
I was not insulting Democrats. I was insulting anyone who would vote for the Democratic Candidate. Please take me literally. Then…since you didn’t see that I was talking about those people as being backwards spooners (you know…the whole ass up their ass comment) but since it caused so much confussion I edited. YES…I did mention editing in that first paragraph. I may come back and edit this post again and again.
Too badk the spell check doesn’t look at the post title. I FEAR that I would not have misspelled a key word in my title.
Besides the mild criticisms…did any of my points make sense?
Comment by
flyingpig — September 5, 2008 @ 10:36 am
See, now I feel bad. Serious grammar crimes are being committed all over the internet, and I pick on you over minor infractions. I’m sorry, what can I say? Sometimes the awesome cold steel power of the badge gets to my head.
“Besides the mild criticisms…did any of my points make sense?”
That I can’t really say for sure, as blog content really isn’t my jurisdiction. But I am familiar with the great citizens of Blogville, and they are undoubtedly excited about your return.
But I understand the Sheriff of Truthopolis may be on his way later this weekend, so he’ll certainly let you know if your points made any sense. I would suggest that you prepare yourself. Solidify your arguments, pray to the God of George W., and put on your protective cup.
Comment by Sheriff of Grammarville — September 5, 2008 @ 10:55 am
It’s always good to see the Pig and a member of Grammarville’s Sheriff’s department.
Good to see ya around Piggy, you missed a Blowfish sighting last week. Maybe after the Earl of Orton plays a couple of games it will inspire “Him” to grace us with a masterful bit of prose.
Comment by
miracle — September 5, 2008 @ 12:42 pm
I’m still scratching my head (well, actually I’m scratching my nut sack) trying to figure out who the fuck the sheriff is. But since he has a badge, I’ll have to let him fuck with me until it gets old.
Nice to be back Miracle my blogging brother.
Comment by
flyingpig — September 5, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
Hey Piggy. Glad everything seems to be settling down on the home front. It’s no fun making fun of Jon Kitna when you’re not around.
So did you give your bathroom the Al Bundy remodel? Man wasn’t meant to live without a power flush and at least 4 rolls of TP waiting in the wings.
Comment by
shooterb — September 5, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
I’m sure he sat on that new Ferguson in the living room before he installed it.
Comment by
miracle — September 5, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
Pig, good to see you bro. i’m kinda glad you weren’t around, my Gamecocks lost to fuckin Vanderbilt. VANDERBILT- an IVY LEAGUE school. I couldn’t even enjoy your loss to who ever you lost to.
fuck
rest assured at we know youre doing your best. We’re right here, waiting. I got my Djarim Mint clove, a Yuenglin and some stick to slap the haters with. We’ll leave the light on for ya!
Comment by
admin — September 6, 2008 @ 3:43 am
Got the power flush, the TP-tree, brand new TP Holder for quick dispersal of the Charmin. Even a nice bathroom book rack to stock with my Sporting News, M-Go Blue Magazine, Hockey Digest and of course, Maxim.
Good to see all my blogging brothers chiming in with the Sheriff. I’m in the fantasy league and ready to kick some serious ass.
Comment by
flyingpig — September 6, 2008 @ 5:01 am
I thought for sure you would have installed that Homer Simpson Recyliner Toliet in your bathroom. I know what you mean about contracters. When my parents wanted to remodel their bathroom, it took them six months to finish, with three months of it spent waiting for counter tops and getting the fuckers to come and install their shower heads.
Congrats on the new Grand-piglett. On a personal note, my little niece was 10 lbs, 7 oz when she came into this world. My sister is now officially the toughest one in the family.
Comment by
morisato — September 6, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
Hey Piggy good to see you back. I’m long overdue for a post myself but I just got a promotion at work plus I turned the big 26 on Saturday.
Sheriff of Grammarville could be anyone. Just know that A) It’s not me, B) Grammarville isn’t a word which would make him/her/it a hypocrite for slamming on your writing and C) the person isn’t worth the time or day. Case closed.
Good to see you back, sir.
Comment by thedan — September 8, 2008 @ 8:14 am
UHH-OHH DAN…you may have pissed off the Sheriff. Careful or he’ll show up at your blog and scold you on the proper use of a semi colon or a dangling participle.
Comment by
flyingpig — September 8, 2008 @ 10:28 am
Mike, this was a hilarious post. Hang in there and keep on bloggin’!
Comment by The Hammer — September 8, 2008 @ 11:58 am
J.A.B. - Just Another Blogger. I fucked up a lot of guys at Fox so this would not be a problem. But, I am showing very little presence in the forums so I need to devote some time to drop a post or two. Glad you are back, sir.
Comment by thedan — September 9, 2008 @ 9:50 am
OK, I shot the Sheriff. But I didn’t shoot no deputy.
I was just having some fun. I figured it was obvious enough who it was that nobody would take it seriously. I’m not the Grammar Gestapo…but come on, “interfear”? That was funny, right? (reverberating sound of crickets)
Guess I’ll have to find another way to amuse myself. Back to midget porn and celebrity anagrams.
Comment by
shooterb — September 9, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
I hear you. I’ve been out of the arena for longer than I care to remember (hoping to make a bit of a come back). Life’s crazy and you have to prioritize.
Get everything in order then get back to writing some great blogs. Good luck.
Comment by
rusirious13 — September 12, 2008 @ 7:39 am