Anyone who has visited my site regularly knows that I occasionally run into dry spells where I have nothing to post. By “occasionally”, I mean “usually”. There are days and weeks that flow by where nothing overly interesting or out of the ordinary happens. Or maybe something interesting does happen but I don’t have the time, energy, or lack of inhibitions to share with the whole world.
I do sometimes put posts out there with interesting items I find on the interwebs or that were sent to me in emails, but I don’t really want to turn my blog into that kind of blog, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
So… I want to keep my blog personal, but quite frankly, my life is interesting enough to entertain me and not necessarily interesting enough to entertain the masses on a daily basis. It’s not like I’m living a soap opera life or anything. I also don’t necessarily want to make my blog so personal that it reads more like a diary. That could get either really boring, or really too interesting!
But then I was reading comments from my buddy’s blog, Steel White Table, and someone left a comment on one of his peanut butter posts. The comment read more like a story. An anecdote. My buddy’s response was “This site needs more anecdotes.” Eureka!! That’s IT! Freakin’ anecdotes! I got lots of those suckers!
For instance, there was this time once when… uhm… Oh! Yeah, once when I was… no, that was a TV show I saw. Let me think…
(sigh…) Anyone have any anecdotes to loan me?
Ian
October 23, 2008 at 10:11 am
Anecdotes, hey? Like the time I tried to post a story but it didn’t show up? Take 2…
So this morning, I get called upstairs to look at the dryer. I’m thinking to myself, “What, now?!? I’m trying to get lunches made and kids ready for school!” I go upstairs and am told the dryer is making a weird noise. I’m still wondering why it’s so important *right now*, when I hear the scratching noise from the dryer that is not running. Hm, that sounds decidedly like a small animal is living in our dryer! Crap!
Being a humanitarian, I gave a few taps on the dryer to scare the sucker out. No dice. I decide to wait for kids to be gone until I pull the dryer out, to reduce the chances of bedlam. I pull the dryer out, look in with my headlamp, and there’s a bird looking out at me from the front corner. Well, he’s not stuck, that’s good. I spend a few minutes trying to coax it out, but to no avail. Fine.
I hook the dryer back up, and turn it on for a few seconds, then off again. Hm, sounds quieter now. I pull it back out, look in… I see no bird, but I do see some fresh droppings streaked across the pipe. I guess he’s gone! I retrieved the piece of wire mesh from the garden where it had fallen, jammed it into the inside of the exhaust, and cleaned out the dryer pipe with a Kleenex, and hooked it all back up and let ‘er rip before heading to work. Let’s hope he really did leave and that he didn’t just faint from the shock!
So… How did you start your day?
Steve
October 23, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Hey! That’s a good anecdote… can I keep it?
Ian
October 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Thanks. I suppose you can borrow it for a while.
ChrisO
October 28, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I found it!
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vbIGbZ6gq_Y
(trying to be very precise about clicking the “Submit Comment” button this time!