No Excuses, Just The Facts

Dear Readers,

I regret to inform you that That One Guy is tuckered out from a weekend of drinking beer and baking in the sun. What that means is this: I didn't write a column before I went away for the weekend, and I don't feel like writing one now at 11:00 on Sunday night. But, you can expect to see a post here by the time you go in to work on Thursday morning, or at least a more detailed cop out. Call me a slacker if you like.
-ThatOneGuy

Added on August 20, 2008

Okay, here's the more detailed cop out.

I decided to start writing this column because I wanted to find an outlet to formulate my opinions on various things that interest me, and to write about things other than the concentrations of benzene and lead in soil samples. I enjoy writing, and thought that this would be a fun outlet. And it is. I wanted to write a column, but I didn't want to make it a full time job, nor did I want to try to get a job with a newspaper to do it. My resume is not conducive to getting such a job anyway.

When I started writing this column, I set myself a goal of posting a new entry once per fortnight. Mostly, I think this is a good frequency where I can put up a good post every time. A weekly deadline would have been too much, and a monthly not enough.

After five posts, I've missed the first deadline. I would be lying to you if I told you this would be the last time. I don't plan to make a habit of missing the deadline of having a post up by every other Monday morning, but sometimes it might happen. What are you gonna do, fire me? I do this for fun. That's precisely why I write a blog instead of a newspaper column. It's not a job. That being said, I already told you why a post didn't happen on Sunday night like it's supposed to. Now, I'll tell you why one isn't happening right now like I said it might.

I have started writing the next entry for the blog. It's about drought, water resources, and some of the things we need to start thinking about as a society when our clean water supplies start to be depleted as a result of overpopulation and global climate change. I will be going back to school to get a PhD in hydrology, and that will be my vehicle to attempt to tackle some of these very problems. I intend that to be my life's work. As a result, my blog post treating that subject had better be good. It will be, when it's finished, but in its current state, it sucks. It needs more work. You don't want to read a piece of crap, and I don't want to post one. If I start posting crap here, why are you going to keep reading? I have no intention of ever posting anything on here that I don't think is good.

So, if the post is complete and ready to be read by the end of this weekend, it will appear here by Monday morning, August 25. If it's not ready, it will appear the following week, at the regularly scheduled time. And, who knows? Maybe I'll end up writing about something else in the meantime. So stay tuned, check back here on Monday morning, and make comments on posts. I'd love to read your input.

-ThatOneGuy