Out of the Closet

It was an interesting weekend for Jotsalot Media.  I had a thought, which is always a good thing unless it's that one about the bus stop which is bad.  But if you can think all the way back to Friday, or just scroll down and read, you'll remember I'd decided I need to get out of the offices a little more.  On a couple different levels.

This is one. 

Productivity

Not exactly a productive week around the halls of Jotsalot Media.  In fact I would probably fire myself, or at least lock myself in stocks next to the watercooler so The Minions could throw damp paper cups at me, if I had stocks or a watercooler.  I'm sure The Minions would have loved the idea.  I tried blaming the diet and my weakened state but that took the week off too.  Weather had a shot at having caused  Warm Toasty Bed Disease, but I think it's something else.  You don't start a business without wanting to show it off once in a while.  It's  like owning a juggling dog and not taking it to bars to get free beer, it's just wrong.  So this weekend I need to figure out how to get my juggling dog outside.

So to speak.

Rock Paper Scissors or To Kill a Spider

Answer: Rock, paper, scissors.
Answer: Jots, Bernie and Poppy.
Question: Name three things useless in building a website? 

Today Jotsalot Media went for a walk. Dragging the minions, aka Bernie and Poppy, out for a bracing -4 stroll around the neighborhood just seemed so right.  We were an impressive trio with me recording the minutes into a micro recorder, Bernie holding his "Yogi was framed!" sign and Poppy in her flight attendant's uniform directing us to the exit at every corner.  What we thought was stunning was "appalling, disgusting and disturbing" (the top three responses) to the locals and that was also their response to our website.  This from a populace that eats sauteed bull's balls with eggs.  Bull's balls are actually pretty good if you don't think about it unlike our website.  Anyway, what we decided is we need to farm out the website building.  Anyone interested?

Smaller. Smaller is good.

Well, it's a new year and everyone here at Jotsalot Media is on a diet including Jotsalot Media itself. In order to be a more dynamic, efficient cash cow. . . oh who are we kidding, what we're really trying to do is get things out the door. Calendars are fun. Cards cards are fun. But with limited staff it's just impossible to do everything so we've decided to concentrate on Norma Timpkins' work and plan to have four books out this year. Two by the end of June and two in time for Christmas shopping. At the same time the books are published, t-shirts with your favorite Norma quotes will become available.  Pretty cool, right?  We at the marketing meeting thought so.

Hmmm. . .I know there was more. . .yeah, we might be looking to buy original photos, paintings etc to illustrate books.  Stay tuned for details.

It's not what we know, but what we think we know that's a problem.

I used to love being invisible, or I believed I was invisible, but there I was showing up in photographs and memories. Now, I wish I'd tried to actually appear.

I don't remember taking a vow of celibacy. . .