I need a break

Cutter's Log - Stardate 8002.31.70
Current Song - Us and Them (Pink Floyd)

Four straight nights of work, and possibly a fifth night as well. I'm "on call" for tonight in case someone calls off. She isn't too happy with her work situation at the moment. Plus a possible two-and-a-half hours on Monday. I'll like the paycheck(s), but I like having some time to myself a little more.

All this time I'd like to use to jump start plans I have for NISB this upcoming school year: The four football trips, a few columns, plus EdgyTim Conference Calls (if he asks me to do them again this year). I've been flirting with a "Quick Shots" type briefs column, but that seems like a thing I could do in my NISB sports blog.

But if I I continue to write more in my sports blog, then how will that be taken by the local sportswriters, whose profession dispises the blog?

Another problem I've been having with the blog is what to post there in relation to the message board. Previously I used the blog for small columns that weren't big enough to warrant a noted NISB coumn. At the same time, if I used the blog for posting every bit of information and opinion that I have, it would sink traffic on the message board. I wouldn't be starting topics or posting a whole lot anymore.

Now that would be a good transition from sports junkie poster to sports writing poster. After all, how many sportswriters these days actually post on message boards?

Or just get rid of the blog, and transfer those thoughts onto the boards ("unpublished thoughts") or a quick shots-type writeup ("published thoughts").

Then there's the name of the quick shots-type column. I can't use "Quick Shots" because the Rockford Register-Star uses it. "Quick Bits," which I used for the Voyager is just a spoof of QS. "Digest" wouldn't work if I wrote opinions of things.

Or the "New and Improved Monday Column" - but is it a true column if there are non-opinionated items included?

So it's not really a blog, not really a digest, not really a column.

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Coldigblo
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Cody's Coldigblo
Monday Mnblge

Cody's ColDig (leaving the "blog" part out)

So it's essentially a blog.

I'm bored. I'm going to now think about how I can write a Coldig, Column and stories while posting on message boards.