I discovered the other day, when making a list, that I have roughly 8 part-time to full-time jobs, in various stages, some mature, some embryonic.  I had been somewhat neglecting those commitments, and I decided to stop.  So this leaves me less time to blog.  I don’t have a free half hour anyplace to just sit and write.

Still, it’s not like blog-worthy stuff doesn’t happen, so I thought I’d take a second and put some of that stuff down.

  • A couple weeks ago I went to a book lunch with Kris Belcher, a dear friend, and last night I got to go to another one, with Crystal Godfrey, of I Can’t Believe It’s Food Storage fame.  She has a rocking blog, and her class was really excellent.  I love preparedness stuff anyway, but this was one of the best classes I’ve been to.  Buy the book, read the blog.  You’ll thank me.
  • Need incentive?  Her food budget, including replenishing her food storage as she uses it, is $60 (sixty) dollars.  A MONTH.  This is not a typo.
  • How did a mom decide to write a book?  She was out running.  She had a thought.  She contacted the usual suspects, and one of them bit.  Actually, two of them bit, one very large publisher and one smaller one, but the large one gave her the runaround until she had already signed a contract.  The publishing industry, people, is broken.  B.R.O.K.E.N.  But you can still beat it.
  • The evening was organized by our own Olivia Votaw, the Girl with Red Lipstick (much in evidence last night, and very classy-looking as well).  If you’re not reading her blog, shame on you.
  • So I’m sitting with my clients this last week, and their 6-year old Austin is going through my 5-inch-think stack of miscellaneous business cards.  He gets to one, stops, looks at it, and announces “hey, a house business!”  It occurred to me that if you want a really effective logo, one good way to know if you’ve got one is to hand your card to a 6-year-old and see if he can tell what you do for a living.  If he can, that’s a good sign.
  • I think Lance Armstrong not winning the Tour de France will improve his image and increase his popularity.  Depending, of course, on how he handles it.  It’s been some time since anyone finished ahead of him, after all.

That’s it for now.  But big changes are coming to this blog, to the website, and all the assorted projects.  Stay tuned over the next month.

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Posted on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009 by chrisjones

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