Gotta, ya just gotta!

This is year 11 for the blogging thing for me. Been around awhile, here and at two other sites, now sitting in blogging purgatory. I know the first rule of blogging “you have to post everyday or you’ll lose readers “. Oh yeah, know it well. Saw readership drop into single digits over the last two years because I wasn’t posting everyday. Been posting a touch more frequently the last month or so and readership is creeping back up: have even noticed some new readers by the fact that archives are showing hits and an occasional comment that needs approved. (FYI, if the post is over a month old, comments can be made but must be approved. Its a spammer trick to comment on old posts.)Part of my drop in posting was from the ‘been there, got the t-shirt’ feeling I was getting (am getting still) whenever I started writing a new post. Seriously, how many different ways can I say the same shit, and still keep interest up? Especially when MY interest was lagging!So, instead of re-hashing the same old shit, I just stopped posting unless I actually felt like I had something worth saying. Then those danged questions started tormenting me. The learning curve started its upward climb and I have a renewed interest in sharing. Maybe its not what my usual readers have in mind, and if not, I apologize; it is what it is. I’m spending roughly 5 hours a day at some form of keyboard; either on the screen of my phone (blog posts) or at my laptop (ever typed so much you wore the letters off the keys? Thats my laptop keyboard.) Another 4 hours a day reading, 8-9 working, squeeze sleep in where I can because theres the other stuff too, like eating, cleaning me, cleaning the house (cats and dog are fuzzy and its shed season) mowing grass and other outside chores, as well as,,,Well, you get the picture. Sometimes ya just gotta,,,,, and thats where I am right now: no excuses, ya just gotta —— (insert verb here)I’m not complaining either; hell, my boss noted the other day that he’s never seen me happier. I didn’t say anything, but it has to do with the fact that I am a ‘producer’ and I am once again producing! Maybe it isn’t showing huge returns, but it is showing something and my attitude is reflecting that. When I first started in the entertainment world, I was a producer for a local club; booking bands, mixing shows, recording airspots(yes, I have a voice for radio) and buying airtime for them, even running contests between bands and assembling prizes of cash or recording time. My take was the cover charges, nothing else.When the bar owner realized I was bringing in $3000(or more) a night on Fridays and Saturdays, he started making problems, wanting to ‘split the door’ etc. Within weeks I was elsewhere, but moving up the ladder in the entertainment world. Sometimes ya just gotta,,, (note: the bar folded up within 6 months of my leaving)What he wasn’t seeing was that I was paying the radio stations anywhere from $500-1000(each of three) for 20 30 second spots a week, paying the recording studio for their time, paying the bands, paying the door girl, even fronting prize money in one case, and still had to handle taxes out of all that (wish I knew then what I know now, I could have,,,,, yah, if wishes were fishes) My take home was only about 1000 a week, but still danged decent money for a hole in the wall nightclub.That was one “producer” hat of mine, making things is another ‘hat’, management was another hat, and I did a lot of managing while on the road, not just mixing: stage, crew, production and tour, not always just one and not always in order. Sometimes ya just gotta. I am one of those. I get energized by producing. So yah, My boss wasn’t off in his assesment. I just gotta DO, and while my blogging may have taken a hit (I wasnt doing,, ) I am coming back at it.