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I hang my head in shame! One of the cardinal rules of blogging and generating an audience is that you blog regularly, and if there is to be a break, you let your audience know ahead of time.
Bad Kelvin! Bad, bad Kelvin!
But let me tell you why the break, and then you can decide if it’s excusable or not.
On August 8th, Mrs. H. and I started out on a road trip to the Ottawa area. We gave ourselves six days to do it in, and camped out in a pup tent at our overnight stop-offs. In Ottawa, we and my brother and his missus (from the UK) joined friends on their houseboat for ten days. We then drove home, taking five days to do so. When we got home, we had business to attend to before my brother and his missus re-joined us for six days. Since then we’ve been playing prioritized catch-up. For a good deal of the trip, we had little or no internet.
“Just an excuse!” I hear you say. “Why didn’t you write the articles before you left?” you ask.
Good point. I wrote two, and had one half-finished for while my brother was staying with us this past week. But I needed four, plus the half-finished one. There simply weren’t enough hours in the day (or firing synapses in my brain) to get that many articles written ahead of time.
What would a newspaper editor have said if I was syndicated? I don’t know. For one, if I was actually generating income from this garbage, I wouldn’t have needed to be spending so much time earning money other ways. And for two, I’m not yet syndicated. Perhaps advance negotiations with the editor would have given me a holiday. Perhaps money would have given me time to keep several articles in my back pocket for publication during time off.
But enough of the navel contemplation and self-flagellation. Let’s share with you some of the more printable random thoughts that went through my head while driving most of eight thousand kilometres. Click here to read.