Topless Coffee Shoppe Burns Down

Details, such as they are at the moment, here

Gah.

Professional Blog?

I'm in receipt of a suggestion that I consider launching a "professional blog," (presumably) for those people who don't want to have to put up with me blathering about my cats, or the topless joint in the next town. Since I like to talk about my cats, I'd not be viewing such a blog as a replacement for this one, but an addition, which means I'm trying to figure out if a "professional blog" would be worth the investment of my time.

The trouble is, I'm not certain what a "professional blog" would be, exactly. Regular readers of this journal will have observed that writing, as an activity, does not lend itself particularly well to narration.

Tuesday, sat on the corner of the couch, stared at the screen until drops of blood formed on my forehead, and 1,000 words thereby made their various ways from my backbrain through my fingers and filled up that terrible blank surface.

Wednesday, more of same.

Ho-hum.

Those of you who read authors' "professional blogs," can you either point me to such a creature, and/or tell me what you find interesting/informative/useful about such blogs?

Thanks!

Thanks, and more news on That Fire

The fire at the Topless Coffee Shoppe has been ruled arson. Thanks to catletude for the link.

Had an end-of-year budget meeting at the day-job today. Because of budget cut backs, there was no coffee. Not that it was tough to stay awake, or anything.

Even worse, budget cuts have affected the Employee Picnic (aka Staff Day)! There will be No Free T-shirts this year, though I'm encouraged to wear a t-shirt from a previous year, which I, um, gave away, 'cause they're ugly. I suppose this means I need to chose between my "Sell Your Soul for a Cookie" t-shirt, Girl Genius Air Ship t-shirt, Abney Park stripy t-shirt, or play it safe with the Dahlov Ipcar Black-and-White animals t-shirt. Decisions, decisions.

'nother meeting tomorrow, this one, so we're told, Federally Mandated. How to Avoid Sexual Harassment or something similar. Anybody else been to one of these? Should I take my own coffee?

I am figuring out the quarterly taxes. My head hurts. There is, of course, no correlation between these two things.

Thanks to everyone who weighed in on the "pro blog" issue. I think I'll stick with what I have for the moment; I'm comfortable here, and as someone pointed out in comments, there are the infodumps. I may try to think about a way to make them more prominent/accessible to folks who just want The News.