Plans for the New Year

I know I got overly busy at the end of this year, and had to go on hiatus during the Christmas season. I will try to get a few ahead, so that we don't have to take a number of weeks off at the end of the year. We may also start doing some bicycle related stuff, as that was part of the original concept here. There may be a couple of those over the winter, but expect that to get going more once bicycle season returns, which around here is April to May. I need to get all the bicycles tuned up, and get riding again.

The plan is to plan articles 2 months ahead, and then writing them a month ahead, so it only takes a short while on a weekly basis to post, and if I have something like a vacation coming up, or a busy period, I can queue a few weeks up, and let the scheduler sort them out. I might consider an income mechanism, either ads on the site or a Patreon, like mechanism. This would allow me some investment, like a domain, and would allow me to put more time into it, and to write longer articles with more detail.

This past year was kind of a failure, I got going again, and then went on hiatus, because I was not prepared for what was going to happen at the end of the year. Mistakes are not the problem, it’s when you don’t learn from your mistakes, that you have a problem. What I learned was that the weeks leading up to Christmas can be extremely busy, both personally and at work, so you need a lead time, to get stuff done. In order to prevent those same issues in 2018, I have planned articles to the beginning of February at this point, and would like to get planned up to the beginning of March this week, get January 7^th in the bag, and January 14^th outlined. January 7^th will be about shooting when there is snow about. I really would also like articles to be longer, at least 400 words, a few in 2017 fell far short of that.

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In case your wondering, I actually write the text using LibreOffice, which has better spell checking, and text tools. I then do the images separately and have them ready, so I can pump the whole thing into Blogger, from a couple of files, then the only issue is to do the layout and it’s done.   

This weeks image is an old favourite from back in 2003, it's a winter shot on film, I think using the TC as it's originally from a colour negative.

Hope you had a merry Christmas, and all the best in 2018!

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