Yesterday, I rejoined the ranks of full timed permanent employees, though I had been working full time on contract since last June. This will impact the blog to a limited extent. I’d already tailed off the dayside updates during the past 10 months I had been working, so this news doesn’t fundamentally alter anything but it does mean that this behavior will continue going forward. It’s more of a return to what the blog was like in 2008 after I brought it back from the dead. I’ll update during the day when I can if the news is big enough.
The other fallout from this is my globetrotting the past four years is mostly going into hibernation…which is unfortunate for Spudette since I’m supposed to be looking for her lost snorkel and mask. Maybe I can contract out for that?
Incredibly long Snorkel backstory going back years can be found…oh wait…
There is no snorkel backstory this time because it’s not my snorkel that’s missing!
Last October I was vacationing on The Big Island with Spudette. The day before we were to leave (and the night of the Tsunami alert) Spudette and I were snorkeling at the Hapuna Prince Resort’s beach when a big wave came in and ripped her snorkel and mask off her head. Several hours of searching commenced and after much salt water and sunburn the search had turned up several pairs of sunglasses, one fin, a pair of goggles, and a different mask which also got ripped off in the surf and lost. But no snorkel and mask. The next day searching was not resumed because the beach was closed because of the Tsunami alert the night before. We headed home one snorkel and mask light…
Now, as my beleaguered readers who have had to put up with numerous inane stories can attest, I’m an old salt with lost snorkels. They don’t faze me now. But Spudette is fragile. She still bemoans the fact that she couldn’t go out and search again the next day.
As Spudette is currently landlocked and unable to travel and being the loyal significant other that I am, I will undertake my Spudette’s quest for her lost snorkel. But where to start looking?
It’s a big ocean. Lots of places to search. I gotta go with what I know so my search will commence in Palau. Yeah it’s probably not there. It’s probably still somewhere near the Big Island. But at least I’ll get in some killer diving which is something I haven’t done since The Maldives two years ago.
Voting Issue!
Blogging resumes February 22nd. Behave yourselves while I’m gone. And I’m ordering a cable news blackout while I’m gone. Palau has internet but it’s sloooooooooooooooooooow. Like 56K modem slow. I’ll be tweeting when I can but that’s it…
Getting my bearings again after 11 days of running around two islands dealing with Mantas, volcanoes, Tsunami Alerts, and, naturally, lost snorkel gear. Only this time it wasn’t my snorkel that got claimed by Mother Ocean…it was Spudette’s. More on that in the months to come I’m sure…
No what’s hot tonight. Looks like the router has gone south. Will have to pick up a new one tomorrow. Grrrrrrrr…
Update: Network is still flaky. Can’t tell if it was the router or the DSL modem. And the new router isn’t connecting properly with the modem so I’m back to the old router again until I can take another run at this tomorrow night. If I have an internet Tuesday morning and there’s something to blog about I’ll blog. Otherwise ICN is still down.
Two boxes of computer pars arrived yesterday from Newegg and you know what that means…it’s going to be a very busy next few days for me as I get my new system built and running properly. Blogging resumes Monday…if everything is working.
I’m overloaded. Can’t keep up. I couldn’t check the internet or email all day today and well into the evening. I was expecting blog turbulence but not this much blog turbulence. So I’m putting the blog mostly in park for the next couple of days until I can get a proper balance going. Hang in there. I will be back at this again soon.
Flying to an undisclosed tropical location…unfortunately the same undisclosed tropical location as last year. This time, however, snorkels will be in jeopardy. Remember to kill each other behave yourselves in the comments while I’m away. Blogging resumes May 10th. Sooner if Keith Olbermann lands a new gig…
Note to Ariens: Sorry to dissapoint but you only get the latest chapter in the saga of Spud’s snorkel when it’s a dedicated dive trip…
Driving to Sacramento this afternoon for a tour of the NorCal TRACON facility tomorrow. If your flight arrives at the wrong northern California airport tomorrow morning, you can’t rule out the possibility that I had something to do with it. Blogging resumes Wednesday.
ICN wishes you and your families a Merry Christmas. Bloggin resumes Monday with the What’s Hot/What’s Not 2011 spectacular. Which reminds me…I need to start writing that thing up as it takes forever…
May your Turkey be dry, you pumpkin pie crust fall apart, your sweet potatoes be sour, your mash potatoes be clumpy, your in-laws and parents drive you insane, your kids finish the job if your in-laws and parents fail, and the cable news nets be asleep at the switch when some big breaking news shockingly breaks in what is a normal news day for the rest of the world…
If you haven’t seen my Twitter feed tonight, my DSL modem went south and I’m now waiting on a replacement from Verizon. It won’t get here before Tuesday night at the earliest. No way am I using my tablet to post blog stuff…it’s just too painful. So the blog will be hibernating until I’m back up again.
ICN shall not be doing coverage of Current TV just because Keith Olbermann is now on it. Current TV is not a news channel…at least in as much as it has a format that shares little in common with CNN, FNC, MSNBC, and (though not nearly as much as it once was) HLN (not to mention CNBC, FBN, and Bloomberg).
Current has ambitions. Current wants to be a player. Good for them. But they don’t get a free pass to coverage on this blog just because Keith Olbermann is now the face of the channel. Current has to earn that coverage by proving itself as a news channel. It’s not there today. It won’t be there tomorrow. It won’t be there next month. It won’t be there by the end of the year. It may eventually get there one day but it will take significant time.
Obviously Current is gambling on the “build it and they will come” approach vis a vis Olbermann. Well it takes more than that for ICN to pay attention. Current can’t just be the channel with an hour of Olbermann, an hour of Vanguard, and 22 hours of “WTF?” and still expect me to follow it on the blog. Sorry. It takes more than that. Get where you need to get Current and then I’ll come around.
Obviously I will have to monitor Olbermann to some extent. He is a former MSNBC employee with the propensity to drop little nuggets of information that pertain to his former network. And that’s one area ICN does monitor regardless of the channel. But that shall be the extent of my coverage until Current fixes the other 22 hours of its schedule.
Of course Current need not worry about little old me. Plenty of media writers will be following tonight’s launch and subsequent episodes. One website in particular will probably be putting up lots of Olbermann articles in the future because they know Olbermann stories are great “water cooler” material and should generate lots of hit counts. That’s their prerogative. But it’s not ICN’s cup of tea and I just wanted to be clear on the outset where I draw the line regarding cable news coverage.
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