OK, I think there was something in the ether’s yesterday as I’m feeling much better today. Not 100%, but a lot better than I was. I threw myself into some site coding/updating/rejuvenating today and that seemed to do the trick. Thinking about other things definitely helps! Playing with pups helps too – though it rained a lot today and there was much of that “wet puppy” smell in the air! Still, there was plenty of loud barking (I join in too sometimes and that really gets both dogs going) and crunchy puppy treats to be had. It’s funny how most of the pasta I buy is for the dogs. For instance I bought six packets last week, of which I’ll probably only have one….maybe two. The rest is for the dogs and they do love it. Hell, it’s gotta be one of the cheapest treats too!

Apart from the website stuff I haven’t actually been that productive today, though I have been reading a lot – both online and off. I’ve been invited to “guest blog” for The Smirk which I’m really looking forward to. It’s not for another month but at least that’ll give me enough time (hopefully) to actually think about something to write. There’s been some pretty impressive guest posts already so I’m more than a little nervous!

I really like the idea of “guest posting” and I think that whoever thought of it first was a genius! I mean, for one thing, it’s a great honor I feel. It’s basically saying “We think you’re cool enough / good enough writer / interesting enough or whatever to write a post on our blog. Will you do it?” How the hell could you say no to that? I couldn’t! My ego wouldn’t let me!

**Smacks ego down again cause it’s getting too feisty**

In some way I guess it also means that the person asking you to guest on their blog doesn’t find your writing too self-indulgent or mediocre…..Well maybe in my case that doesn’t apply as I can be hella self-indulgent and mediocre at times! Another good thing could be this – if someone’s guesting on your blog then you don’t need to think of anything to write yourself for that day. Brilliant!! Have a different guest poster every day and you could retire from writing your own blog.

I’m not sure of the etiquette there though? I mean if I’m guesting on The Smirk does that mean I can or cannot write a post for the same day on The Speckled Band? Is it good manners to write in my own blog as well or is that just greedy? I dunno? Then again maybe I should just write as my post for that day “No post here today – Check The Smirk for more information” or “The Smirk stole my post” or something similar to that? Maybe I’m just being silly and worrying about it too much? Bugger it, I reckon I will post here as well – unless someone asks me not to or I get too lazy (a distinct possibility there I’d have to say!)

All this talk of guest blogging does lead to a rather interesting issue though? If one of those lame ass, no content, one-liner blogs out there (you know the ones) has an equally lame ass, no content, one-liner blog as a guest post then how would that work? Would the post be “I can’t think of anything to write on – INSERT NAME HERE – blog” or “I had Corn Flakes for breakfast. Dunno what – INSERT NAME HERE – had? Nothing else happened today” or what?

Likewise, would it really matter?

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