A day at the Coffee Shop (9/10/14)
In writing this blog today I came to realize what a wise decision it was to invest the time to have an 11 week backlog of of blog posts that would automatically post, and then be broadcast to my various other forms of social media.
Starbucks is probably the most blogger friendly environment imaginable. Most of the locations in close proximity to my house are open 24 hours, for a borderline insomniac that is such a blessing. Then when you walk in you have all of these pleasant and personable people that are looking to fill up your fuel tanked with 93 octane java concoctions. I can’t emphasize how important the right fuel and social environment is to successful idea generation. Finally the infrastructure is setup for you to create. There is an ample supply of functional seating with easily accessible electric access provided you are on location prior or post high traffic times as well as the key component to any successful blogging session, WiFi.
Order of operation:
Place order of Iced Venti Skinny Vanilla Latte with an Extra Shot of Espresso, and whatever sugar based goody offsets the calories I saved by getting a “Skinny” drink.
Locate and mark my territory, and in this instance that would consist of a side table and loveseat style contraption.
Engage in the business of the day, blogging.
The minor technicality that I neglected to take into consideration is that I work better in a library setting, silent. I have the attention span of a 8 week old puppy. I’m good for about three or four minutes, but if something new pops up the task at hand is abandoned. So between he inflow of people for their caffeinated addictions, the random conversations taking place and the easy listening music it takes me forever to get anything of substance accomplished.
The reason for my excessively long queue of posts is because for a blog to be effective it needs to be consistent. You can post once a month, once a week or daily, but it has to be consistent. I have chosen to post Monday-Friday giving my followers a weekend reprieve from the nonsense I come up with, and it gives me a brief break from writing.
Having the queue guarantees at least for a certain period of time there will be posts generating even if I drop dead in the middle of some rural farming community. It’s a safety net for the unlikely event that I run out of gas in an Amish community and I don’t have access to some of the conveniences that I have grown accustomed to. This is just me planning on the fact that a guy name Murphy always seems to pop into my life at the most inopportune times and understanding what my life on the road is really going to look like.
