51 bar steady 29.68 2mph SSE dewpoint 36 Spring
New Moon (Growing)
Don’t know whether you caught the article in this morning’s paper about bloggers. It seems bloggers are the new cottage industry, working at home at piece rate, grinding out post after post after post in a grueling 24-news cycle that, this article claims, often leaves little time for sleep or food. In fact, the premise of the article was that there might be a new cause of early death. Blogging. Yikes!
Here I am, doing two to three posts a day most days, eating and sleeping and exercising, plus living a life. Not to mention that I blog for free. In fact, I pay for the privilege since Kate and I rent webspace from the nice folks at 1&1 Internet. There’s also that 6.99 a year for the domain name, ancientrails.com. OK, the price is cheap, especially for what we get, but still. This article said some people make as little as $10 a post. As little. I could pay my entire internet overhead with 3 posts, maybe 4.
Oh, well. If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing cheaply.
This is more of a point than I make it sound. The garden. My novels and short stories to date. Touring at the Art Institute. None of it pays a dime, at least so far. Yes, I did make $80.00 last year doing tours after hours at the MIA, but that hardly counts.
None of this discourages me, but it does make me wonder if I could find a nice patron who’d like to hype ancientrails and pay me, too. Wouldn’t turn it down. Unless it interfered with my editorial prerogative, of course.
Paul Douglas, who mentioned this website in a recent Star-Tribune weather column, got released from WCCO. Several people wrote him notes. He deserves it. He’s a creative guy and a Minnesotan through and through. Doesn’t sound like he’s gonna line up for unemployment either.
Groceries this AM, then making CNS (Jewish penicillin) for my ailing docent colleague, Bill Bomash. He’s the guy who broke his femur in five places. The class will provide a few meals for him and his wife over the next few weeks.
