Pete shot marbles, so I figured I’d try glass block. Actually, I already had the photo; I just cropped it, framed it, and changed the hue on three blocks. Voila! Instant art.

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Who knows where it might lead?

I do.

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Cicadas are on the loose! Run for your lives!

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A water tower under construction, south of Dayton, Ohio. Plus free advertising for McDonald’s…

I couldn’t get a good shot of this one. It was taken on the way back from a photo shoot at a client’s location. I could have gotten a better shot on the way there, but the camera was in the back seat.

Anyway, it was more interesting to see than it appears in the photo.

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As you know from yesterday’s comments, some of my readers don’t like thinking too hard, which gave me the idea for this post.*

Anyway, did you ever think of a blog post while away from the computer, but, by the time you were actually at the computer, you just didn’t care about it anymore? You were already bored with it. Or, when you actually sat down and started typing, you realized your earlier manifesto you “wrote” in your head had been reduced to a couple sentences in actual typed form.

Thus, blogging fatigue set in.

That is my story for the day. This is not the post I was going to write. No, instead I had planned on a post on business success, and the “secret” behind successful businesses. But, by the time I was sitting in front of the computer, I realized my groundbreaking post would take no more than a couple sentences. And, that’s not the sort of thing that anyone will stumble or share with their friends.

And, that’s when you sigh, and allow blogging fatigue to take over and discourage you from doing the post at all, because you just don’t feel that into it anymore. No, now that it will take some actual work, it doesn’t seem as important or groundbreaking as it did just an hour ago.

Perhaps another day… I can always add it to my drafts!

So, how does one overcome blogging fatigue? Well, since I’ve failed to overcome it now, I’ll will instead theorize on what might help overcome it, as these are all things I probably should do or should have done, but didn’t.

Get a comfortable chair. I’ve mentioned it before, and still haven’t done it, but I think it would be easier to focus and relax and get things done if I were sitting in a comfortable chair.

Receive a big check. A nice sale, an AdSense check, etc. Money is a better motivator than potential money. You can spend all day doing things that people say will make you money, but you’re left feeling like you’re wasting your time and spinning your wheels when that money doesn’t roll in. But, when money does come in, that’s tangible. You know what you did to get it, and you just roll up your sleeves and do it some more! Hearing about other people making money just isn’t the motivator that holding a nice-sized check in your hands is.

Follow your passion. Never mind. Let’s just end that fallacy right now! We hear ad nauseam that we should all follow our passions and the money will follow. That kind of thing leads to fatigue and can kill your passion. Not everyone is lucky enough to make money doing what they love. Sometimes, when you try to follow your passion, it starts to be too much like work, and it ceases to be a passion anymore. Other times, you need to do a real job to be able to afford to pursue your passion, because they’re isn’t a money-making scheme wrapped around every passion. If it were so easy to get rich following your passion, most people would be rich and happy. Are they? (For more, give “Money Doesn’t Always Follow Your Passion” a read. Thanks!)

When in doubt, just post photos. It’s also helpful to have a digital camera, otherwise you’re just going to be spending lots of money getting your photos developed. I’d never have taken as many photos I do if I had to pay to have them developed all the time. Photography used to be a luxury. You usually took photos sparingly. Now, there’s no excuse not to take the shot! (Just make sure you have a large enough memory card. 24 photos used to be a lot back in the day when you had to pay to get them developed; now, 24 photos is like nothing.)

This is the point where I should have a nice wrap-up. But, blogging fatigue… remember?

*Actually, it didn’t, but that made for a nice segue.

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The Bad Ideas Meme is a meme where you take something that would normally be a good idea (or at least something that normally wouldn’t be a bad idea) and identify a situation where it would be a bad idea. Then, optionally, you can identify a potential good use for the bad idea.

Make sense? Here’s an example:

Bad Idea for Account Security Question on a Dating Site:
Where did you meet your spouse?
Then again, it may help to weed out married people.

Got it? Good, ’cause now it’s your turn. I am tagging the following people:

Pete
Joanne
Michelle
Awake in Rochester

Tag as many (or few) people as you like, and don’t forget to mention who tagged you!

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They’re not all creepy, but the first one is, and that just spoils the rest of them.

So, here we go…

“kids new underwear and swimwear photos”
This one is very, very creepy. Sure, it could be parents looking for the latest in underwear and swimwear fashions for their kids, but the addition of “photos” in the search keywords pushes it into the creepiness zone. I’m at #39 for this term. Thankfully, I am not #1.

“how to make 1000000$ easily”
Apparently, I was in the top ten for this one, but have since dropped to #12.

“how to attract chicks”
Currently at #9. It’s a bummer no one buys the “Hot Naked Chicks” apron. Chicks dig it!

“how to attract hot people”
#1. Yeah, baby, yeah. Bummer no one buys the “Hot Naked Chicks” apron. Chicks dig it!

“how to attract chicks”
#9. I ought to just start a blog on attracting women. But, still, no one will probably buy the “Hot Naked Chicks” apron, even though chicks dig it.

“Imagine Believe Act Achieve”
#4.

“believe act achieve”
#1.

“dream achieve believe pics”
#3. But what kind of pics do you suppose they were looking for?

“strangled”
I don’t get it. The post doesn’t even use the word.

“making money offline”
No conversions though.

“subcutaneous fluids wholesale”
Currently #13, but I was apparently in the top ten at one point.

“pictures of guys in their underwear”
#5. I told you this one would boost my rankings.

“ads underwear models men pictures”
Apparently, I was in the top ten for this too, but have since dropped to number 14. Perhaps it’s time for another picture?

“nude illustrations of women fighting women”
Apparently, I was at number eighty-something, but now I’m not there at all.

“men in their underwear”
Was in the top ten, but now #12. Who do you suppose is doing the searches on this one?

“strange ebay auctions”
#9. C’mon people. We can do better than that! Link me up!

“selling weird stuff blog”
#4. There, that’s better. See, it wasn’t so hard, was it?

“how to start a used panty selling website”
Was at number twenty-something. Now, too far down to keep looking. So, very, very disturbing…

“women baking naked”
Was in the top ten, now nowhere to be found.

“hot naked ladies”
Was at number forty-something, now at #51.

“women bare all”
Was thirty-something, now at #44.

“round ground song”
Well, close. It was the “Ground Round” song. But, #2 for “round ground song” isn’t anything to sneeze at, especially in the bowl.

“how to act creepy”
People still want lessons, and I’m at number 1, so guess where they go. If you guessed #7, I’m guessing you’re probably right.

So, that’s how people (maybe even you) found me.

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I figure that I need to reach more of the college-age crowd for my blog. I had more younger readers, but they largely dropped off and disappeared. Evidently, I need to reach out to them better with content they like.

I did some market research by looking at websites geared toward the college crowd.

Apparently, what college students (male and female) like is scantily-clad (or naked) women, entertainment (games, music and movies) and beer. You don’t see photos of half-naked men, so apparently female college students like looking at girls in swimsuits (or less) too. Or their underwear. Perhaps Joanne can enlighten us on this phenomena while she’s still in college.

At any rate, I figured I could cover two of the three with my MP3 Player Girl pictured above. Not too racy for my regular crowd, I hope. The photo shows less skin than even some mainstream magazines, so I should be okay. We’ll leave out the beer because not all college-aged kids are 21.

Not sure how it will appeal to Google searchers, as the photo does not include a creepy guy in his underwear.

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Parent: Having kids is such a rewarding experience. Little Jimmy can go on and on with lots of questions, and you have to stop and think and explain things to him. It is such a rewarding experience to see the world anew again, and to see things through his little eyes. And, he asks a question, then a follow-up and then on and on and on. It’s just so cute.

What Not to Say: Wow. Your kid must really be stupid.

Parent: Little Jimmy is only 14 months old, and he’s already starting potty training.

What Not to Say: My cat started using the litterbox at 4 weeks old.

Your turn…

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Several days ago, actually yesterday but it seems longer, I talked about finding the time to do a short animation that Michelle may enjoy. I have a big project at work I’m trying to finish, so who knows when I might get to that animation?

By the way, have you visited the Broadcasting Brain blog? It really has nothing to do with this blog post; I just figured I’d give him some link love with the correctly ordered name this time.

Anyway, I was going to take work home with me and work on it at home too, but after spending the day on it, plus staying after hours a bit to finish up the section I was on, I decided I couldn’t take any more of it for the day. So, I went home, ate dinner, watched TV and then did some 3D rendering.

Below, you’ll see my rendering of an MP3 player. I modeled it last night, but didn’t do the render until lunchtime today. Actually, I did the texture (the “paint job”) during lunch as well. But, the model itself was completed (late) last night.

Sorry, no earphones just yet. Just the base model. Earphones cost extra.

And, what do the unleave’ed trees have to do with anything? Well, it was the closest photo I had to anything that might resemble album cover art. Maybe it’s some kind of mood music, “Winter Days, on a bleak and grim December…” Who knows. I’ll probably need to update it before I do the animation, because you wouldn’t be able to break-dance to a sad song. Not that there’s break-dancing, but there’s certainly no slow dancing.

At any rate, as you might have imagined, the animation short in some way involves an MP3 player. That’s all I’ll say for now. So, that’s two clues for you. First clue was “Ron.” So, you and Michelle will have to ponder on that for a bit. I still have work to do before I do any more on the animation.

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