Sundays are odd days for me. I know, it’s Monday, and Monday is why Sunday is weird. I have a part-time Monday through Friday job, and I have some other side-gig work that all falls under the umbrella of GROK MEDIA, LLC, but GraniteGrok is the 7/365 gig. Not 24/7, but definitely 5-7/7/365 and depending on what’s percolating, phone calls, emails, deadbeats I have to chase who don’t pay their invoices (you know who you are), plus other business-related business, related to keeping The ‘Grok running, the days can be longer.
I could make a lot more doing something else, but for some reason, I feel like I need to do this.
One of the things I do to ensure you have content is schedule a day in advance. Sunday, I schedule Monday, and so on. If a post comes in hot and is time-sensitive, I bump something and make space. Moving things is a near-daily activity, but if something happens (computer failure, no power or internet, personal or family thing), there is a one-day pad worth of content. Sometimes, it’s a day and a half, but rarely two.
If you look at Monday, I have the regular post and editing load plus a Morning Update, and GrokTALK! If you want some inside baseball, that five-minute-or-less bit I do five days a week can take up to an hour from recording to editing to adding clips and then getting it posted and scheduled. GrokTALK! takes longer.
I’m not complaining. This is my every week/month/year, but as I said, sometimes the real world intrudes. Car trouble (never mine, always some family member), or something stops working, plus all the crap a person does to keep a household up and running [my wife works], as well as a marriage (of thirty-two years). My lovely wife is very tolerant of this bizarre hobby/part-time job, so she gets several hours of my nearly undivided attention every day (sometimes more if we go boating or do a day trip), which requires logistical gymnastics to ensure we have content scheduled on the ‘Grok, and internet access if something goes sideways.
There are newsletters to create and the aforementioned morning updates, and I’m kind of a stickler for making sure we deliver on the promise of content on time, every day.
My burdens are not yours, and I appreciate every one of you for reading, commenting, sending links, tips, sharing content, all of the memes, supporting all of this, all of it. I am rich in ‘inbound’ content ideas’ and can’t possibly use them all, but would never ask anyone to send less. Especially before Sunday, when I want to make sure I get Monday done, and maybe even start on Tuesday, so I have time to wind up a new GROKTALK!
If you missed past admissions, for all my planning, I often don’t have a clue what I want to talk about until sometime Monday, often in the afternoon. This week, I actually got ahead of it and was trying to find some subjects that fired me up when I noticed I hadn’t written a five o’clock for Monday, which is what this is.
As I like to remind our contributors, we are a political opinion blog, but you can write about anything you want.
I just did.
