Every year I start dozens of blog posts that never get finished. Sometimes I’ll start writing one and they simply don’t go anywhere. Other times I’ll start one and by the time I finish them they no longer seem relevant. According to WordPress I currently have 80 blogs in varying states of completion sitting in the draft folder. I may finish a few of them, but most of them will end up in the trash pile. Here are just a few that I’ve deleting this morning.
MIKE TYSON KO’S NETFLIX, LOSES TO FATHER TIME
I wrote a really long recap of the Jake Paul/Mike Tyson fight on Netflix. For some reason it took me a week to write it and by the time it was finished, nobody was talking about the fight anymore and it was old news.
BACK TO NORMAL
This was a really long blog post I wrote about the 2 1/2 weeks Susan was gone and I was home by myself. It mostly talked about how Susan stocks the refrigerator for me before she goes on long trips and how I end up eating fast food anyway. Apparently I ate a lot of frozen Italian beef sandwiches while she was gone. Riveting.
WHEN THE RULE OF FIVE MEETS THE TWO-MINUTE RULE
This was a post about to different rules I use. One is Susan’s “rule of five” which is whenever you walk into a room that’s messy, pick up five things. The other was an anti-procrastination tool I discovered called the two-minute rule which says if you think of a task and that task will take less than two minutes to complete, do it now instead of waiting to do it later. I may actually leave this one in the draft folder and revisit it.
PAIN, PART ONE
One night before I was on my back meds I started writing about my back pain and things got dark so I abandoned it. The back feels a little better now.
UNFOLLOWING INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS WITH POWERSHELL
This is a really long and technical post about how I wrote a script to automatically unfollow accounts that weren’t following my on Instagram. I’m pretty sure this goes against their TOS (who cares) and I honestly don’t know why I didn’t publish it. I’ll save this one for a rainy day.
CRUISE
This appears to be a summary of our cruise to Cozumel that we took with our friends Jeff and Heather. I know This appears to be a generic summary of the vacation that I never finished, and I know I wrote some more specific tales from that trip so at some point I decided this one was unnecessary. Buh-bye.
BED BUGS
Have you ever had one of those stories that never seems to end? One day while sitting in our recliner, Susan felt and then saw what she thought was a bed bug. This led to us throwing out my favorite recliner and I think maybe a couch. Then we threw away a bunch of pillows and bedding. Then we started putting powder on the floors and furniture. We eventually tracked the infestation down to a used Roomba we had paid $5 for at a garage sale (lesson learned). Then a few weeks later Susan was looking online and determined that they weren’t bed bugs at all, but carpet bugs, which probably came from the used Roomba. Carpet bugs are way easier to treat and after that it seemed like we threw away my recliner for nothing. The post went on for a few thousand words and got abandoned when the story never seemed to end.
SUPPER CLUB
Some friends of ours met us for dinner one night at a supper club. It was a super weird dining experience. Our meal took 2 1/2 hours from start to finish and all kinds of weird things happened, like possibly our waiter quit during out shift (we had at least three different servers) and at one point in the meal we noticed the air conditioner above our table was dripping water directly into my glass of water. The post never really got a point and you kind of need if you’re going to write 1,000 words about a meal, you kind of need one. Around the time I wrote this one I was vying for a food columnist position in a local magazine and the blog I wrote was so bad that I abandoned both it and the writing position I was pursuing.
THREADS IS THE TWITTER KILLER WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR
This was a half-baked post about how Meta’s Threads will destroy Twitter and that in a year everyone will be on Threads and Twitter will be a ghost town. Not only did I not finish the blog post but I never use Threads. This one didn’t age well in multiple categories! Deleted.
THE SWEETEST SOUND TO A PERSON’S EARS IS THEIR OWN NAME
This was a long, cranky rant about how I was recognized at work for fifteen years of service and during the ceremony they pronounced my last name wrong. The manager who mispronounced my name was one I had previously worked for. I won’t rehash the entire post but the gist of it was, if you want employees to feel appreciated for their service, maybe you should take 5-10 seconds and learn how to pronounce their name, especially if you’re going to say it to a large group of their coworkers. This post was more than 500 words long and at least 350 of them wouldn’t have done me any favors at work. I was pretty mad when I wrote this one and it belongs in the trash pile.
ONE MONTH OF USING THE MCDONALD’S APP
The McDonald’s app is the first restaurant-specific one I installed on my phone. I wrote 400 words about how I love 99 cent coffee and fresh breakfast burritos before abandoning this one.
There were many more drafts that hit the trash pile this morning, most of which were half-baked ideas that didn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t even tell what some of them were going to be about. The fun thing about doing this each year is finding those blog posts that were almost finished and still hold up. There are definitely a handful that will get recycled into new posts here. Blog housekeeping, who knew that would be a thing!