Adjusting to Daylight Saving Time

For those of you who are new to my blog, I am not a fan of Daylight Saving Time. I am a fan of sleep.  My dog is a fan of sleep and refuses to wake up an hour early or wait an extra hour to poop.  Since Washington has refused to do anything about it,  I have taken matters into my own hands.

There are some things I could not change (The hours that businesses, television schedules, and the nudie bar operate).  The things I could change were changed.  Instead of getting up at 5:00AM during standard time, I wake up at 6:00 during daylight time.  And instead of going to bed at 10:30PM, I now go to bed at 11:30PM.  This leaves one fewer hour to putz around in the morning, but it gives me an extra hour to unwind after work.  The advantage to working from home is that it allows me to adjust the time I eat my meals and surf the web looking at porn reading the news.

To some people, this is the start of daylight saving time.  To others, it’s the end of darkness saving time.  To me, it’s doing things an hour sooner after I wake up than I would have otherwise.  That’s how I roll.

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Sixty Days to Go

In a campaign season that seemed to start days after the 2008 elections, Americans will be voting for (among other things) President of the United States.  These sixty days will go like lightning for those running for President.  For those of you who aren’t running, it seems like an eternity.  The cable news networks have spent the last four years previewing the 2012 election.

I have spent the last two weeks watching bits and pieces of the two largest political parties’ conventions and their descriptions of a very different America than either you or I live in.  Neither party is addressing the Cinemafia nor are they mentioning the Canadian spies infiltrating the Great American Entertainment Industry.  The tainting of American entertainment will lead to a great depression in morale if not financially.

A decrease in morale will only lead to an increase in drug usage, alcoholism, and Dinty Moore stews.   Not only are Obama and Romney not addressing the disease, they aren’t even attempting to relieve us of the symptoms.  I am the ONLY candidate who addresses both and offers solutions for both.

My campaign is not limited to straightening out the entertainment industry.  I have offered solutions for jobs, energy, health care, the poor, the elderly, and nookie.

My schedule gets very hectic starting Monday.  Mondays through Thursday will be work from 6:00AM to 10:00PM Monday through Thursday and 6:00AM to 4:00PM on Fridays with campaigning on Saturdays and Sundays.  This schedule will be in effect until Columbus Day, when I start campaigning non-stop until the Election.  The days after the election will be spent protesting the results and demanding recounts (unless I win).  The following week will be a vacation in either Hawaii or Nebraska (I will know for sure by next week).

Adopt-a-Presidential-Candidate

The recession is hitting me as hard as it is hitting most Americans.  Companies that I have done business with for years are folding and other companies are scaling back on their marketing budgets just to survive.  I will make less money in 2010 than I did in 2009.  Despite this, I still need to travel around the world and campaign for leader of the free world.

I can still afford travel.  What is becoming expensive is lodging.  I have already cut lodging expenses from staying in upscale hotels for a week a time to staying at motels on the highway for one or two days.  This will soon me beyond my reach financially.

Instead of asking for money like other people would, I am asking for a place to stay.  My 2011 schedule isn’t set yet, so if you have time available for me to stay over, I can return the favor by cooking breakfast and some light housecleaning.  I am also available for speeches, rallies, and bar and bat-mitzvahs.  I can be reached in the comments section of this blog.

Thank you for your continued support.

Oops!

For those of you who thought my radio show isn’t until tomorrow, you were correct.  I started flooding my Facebook and Twitter pages yesterday thinking that the show was last night.  The only problem was that the URL listing was for tomorrow’s show.

When the show started, there were fewer people in the chat room than normal.  This was mostly because I kept posting the wrong show.

Here is the link to last night’s show (You can listen to the archives if you wish) http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ahmnodt-heare/2010/05/07/open-lines

Here is the link to tomorrow’s show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ahmnodt-heare/2010/05/09/open-lines

The only difference between the two links is the date, which I have in bold.  I had scheduled the show for tomorrow a while ago.  During the time since, I was thinking that the show was Friday.  I do not know why I scheduled a show for that late on Sunday as I have to drive home from Washington, DC.  It’s a five-hour trip.  A one-hour show means I am here in DC until 8PM and I won’t be home until 1 AM.  There is an 8AM meeting I have with a potential business client on Monday morning.  It could be my biggest client yet.

It could have been worse.  I could have scheduled the show for yesterday and not try to air until tomorrow.  I would have gotten a notice from BlogTalk Radio stating that after three show scheduled shows are not attempted that I would lose the show.  I had one last year as I tried to do a show on the road, but the hotel I was staying at had no internet service.  (I thought every hotel had internet, but I was wrong.)

Instead of thinking that yesterday’s show is tomorrow and that tomorrow’s show was yesterday, just remember that there was a show last night and that there will be a show tomorrow and the show will be open lines.

How a Slow Day Goes

I am taking this week off for two reasons.  The first reason is because the week between Christmas and New Year’s is not very productive.  People tend to be recovering from one holiday and looking forward to the next holiday.   The second reason is because few clients are looking for marketing projects in this time period.

I am also limiting campaigning this week.  It seems I do my best campaigning when I am busy with other things and running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

Below is my schedule for today:

8:00 – Wake up, shower, get dressed, and walk the dog.  – Self explanatory for most people. For those who need more of an explanation, I will videotape the last two things I do on the list. I can’t videotape myself showering for legal reasons and I can’t videotape myself waking up because by the time I get the video camera, I am already awake.
9:00 – Walk to Staples – Staples is about 4 miles from here so it will take me about three hours to get there. I’m not a fast walker and I like to absorb the scenery.
12:15 – Arrive at Staples – I took mental notes of things I need for my office, like pens, paper, printer paper, and popcorn. I will buy these items later in the week when I drive to the store. I did buy a new GPS system. The old GPS was old and outdated. It had things like “Oregon Territory” on it. The new one I have has roads and bridges on it. It also updates itself and offers where gas stations and restaurants are.
3:00 – Stopped in the diner for a sandwich and a coffee. It was a slow time at the diner so there was nobody to talk politics with. One thing I noticed is the cook who normally wears a New York Giants cap was wearing a New York Yankees cap instead today.
4:30 – Arrived home – installed the GPS in my car.
6:15 – Walked the dog – just in time too as he pooped just past the bottom step.
6:40 – started writing this blog entry and ordered pizza delivery. I don’t like too many toppings so I limit myself to pepperoni, sausage, meatball, anchovies, chocolate chips and extra cheese.
7:30 – “Wheel of Fortune” – as if you didn’t already know why.

8:00 – Monday Night Football – Vikings at Bears – I will root for Minnesota because I don’t like Jay Cutler.

11:45 (approx. after football) – read and answer fan e-mail.

11:46 – Bed

Who Shrunk the Day?

The day was 24 hours long when I was growing up.  Seven hours was dedicated to sleep.  Eight hours was dedicated to work.  That left nine hours to do things that you want and need to do.

It is amazing how much work one can do with a computer.  I didn’t appreciate the importance of this until the power cord to my computer was taken away.  The computer can do everything.  It does my business functions (accounts, billing, money transfers) as well as my entertainment functions (radio, videos, games, porn, etc.)

I had to order a new power cord, but I couldn’t order one until earlier today.  I have to make a presentation tomorrow in Buffalo the Darrin Stevens way.  For those not familiar with Darrin Stevens, he is a fictional character in the 1960’s sitcom, “Bewitched.”  He was played by Dick York and Dick Sargent, but Darrin wasn’t a Dick.

Darrin Stevens worked for an ad agency.  He would do things by hand and put them on a poster board.  The ad program would be on a series of poster boards, with each poster board contributing to the theme of the ad campaign.

This is the approach I have to take for my next client because I do not have a new power cord yet.  Marketing and advertising are similar, but marketing incorporates everything into a theme.  There is the theme, the strategy (advertising, displays, brochures, internet, etc.), the costs, and other little things.

Things should be back to the ways things were before I went to the Meeting of Independent Presidential Candidates meeting last month by Wednesday.  I will continue to post both my regular blog entries as well as the Meeting of Independent Presidential Candidates entries I had to write by hand.

I will have time because I will have a computer and will no longer have to look for poster paper, put the things on the poster paper, try to erase mistakes, go back and buy more poster paper, carefully make a revised version of the poster paper I goofed on, organize the poster papers, and go to an office supply store because I do not have a safe way to carry and store the poster papers with the marketing campaign.