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Imagine My Surprise
Well, it’s officially been a month since I fell on my way into work and have been unable to return because they have no provision for light duty.
Pending Interview
Yeah, pending…
So, I’m waiting for my ankle to stop hurting so I can go back to work when I get a call. Sounded promising. The next week rolls around and we’ve got it penciled in for Friday afternoon.
Nice thing about pencil is that it can be erased.
Maybe next week.
Maybe never.
Maybe it’s just like every IT opportunity I’ve been called for since 2010.
Maybe.
We’ll see.
What? Me? Bitter?
Perish the thought…
Worker’s Comp
So, I got some kind of really vague letter in the mail telling me to contact some WC outfit in Scranton.
The number?
It’s the one from a guy who called me two days prior and asked me a bunch of questions and gave absolutely no answers.
Honestly, I don’t think the phone rang twice. I had no missed calls in my history from that number.
Bizarre.
Joke’s On Me, As Usual
The secret to humor is surprise ~Aristotle
So, while all this is (NOT) going on, I’m left with a bunch of bills that I have no way of trying to pay.
Absolutely thrilling.
So, I’ve got some stuff cooking because I’ve waited long enough for the ankle to miraculously heal or for the WC adjuster to miraculously decide that it would be better for me to go to the therapists 3 miles away instead of their “in-network” outfit somewhere around Reading.
Hint, guys, if I have no income because I can’t get to work then I haven’t got any $*)#@$#@ gas money for that particular round-trip, now do I?
Well, what’s cooking?
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I’ll also be spending some time this week adding some products to my Products page and modernizing the Free Stuff on this site. I retired all of my previous products on JVZoo, so I’m well overdue for cooking up some new ones.
Christmas All The Time
I’m still on track with my annual content calendar, but this is the time of year where it starts to pick up. Actually, this is the time of year when **ideally** I’d pick up the pace so I’m not writing frantically throughout December.
This year, I‘m actually doing that!
I’ve got the September 25th and October 25th posts to attend to and then the big daily deluge starting on Black Friday (November 23rd, 2018) and concluding on Epiphany (January 6th, 2019). I typically make this easier on myself by having a weekly theme leading up to Christmas and some variation of the 12 Days of Christmas from Christmas Day through Epiphany.
The following year begins on February 25th and follows on throughout the year.
But Rob, why not January 25th? Well, I’ve got content for New Year’s thru Epiphany and I figure people are “ sick of Christmas ” (gack!) and could use a break after the full Black Friday thru Epiphany run.
Pioneer Skill Set
I’ve left the Pioneer Skill Set simmering a while to see what kind of traffic I’d get from YouTube, but the results are underwhelming. I’m going to add a new video sequence on there to see if I can’t get a bit more engagement and flow-through.
Surprisingly, the most popular entries have been to do with hygiene, water purification and desalination. Apparently, the audience has spoken and I have something like a mandate for further content to be created on these topics.
However, since Halloween is fast approaching…
…I was also going to do some stuff in relation to the Zombie Apocalypse. It was the next thing on deck when my laptop croaked, so it’s waited long enough. I’ve got some ideas of what to do with regard to zombies vis-à-vis prepping. Should be fun as long as my rickety old desktop PC cooperates.
Nichyssoise
Well, I’ve got two products all ready to post on Nichyssoise and I’ve got a handful more that I’m working on today. I’ve got to stop blabbing here and get on with that.
Permanent Payday
I’ll be updating the Permanent Payday funnel soon. I was hoping to get a new laptop before I began working on the modernization of this site, but there’s no better time than the present to get the hell on with it. The original content is alright, but I didn’t include a coherent call to action. The best way to teach is to do and the current content is educational in a newbie-friendly way, but it’s not really teaching properly because it isn’t set up properly. Time to get that corrected.
The Sentinels
I think I’ve cracked the code!
I’ve been doing my usual thing and just writing the story as if I were watching it in 3rd Person from a parallel universe. Lots of good stuff, but as usual nothing hangs together. But then…
I’m just writing backstory. I can babble as much as I want. The useless stuff will get trimmed off and the worthwhile stuff will get edited and included in the final narrative. Boy, I wish I’d figured that out years ago…
For a guy who’s going up and down the stairs like a toddler, I’m pretty darned busy. Goodness knows some of it’s got to pay off soon.