NEW NUMBERS NEEDED HERE

I need new numbers, not that I’m too good for 0-9.

A new arrangement would be nice, but it is what it is.

As much as I’d like to see better numbers, more improvement, I accept what I see.

Upward trend? Okay. Downward trend? Okay.

How about moving on instead of complaining about every tick one way or the other.

How about that?

Start with the idea of moving on.

Do you take action only as a last resort?

Does it take a lot of pushing to get you going?

Before you stand up on your hind legs and defend yourself, stop.

Everyone who knows you has already figured it out.

If the idea is to get started on anything, it doesn’t matter if it’s a push start or a self start.

Once you get started it’s up to you to keep going.

Stash the origin story if you’re going to complain about being pushed too hard, had to get up too early, and still unsatisfied with your results.

The more you repeat your victim story of how you got started, the more momentum you lose.

The next time the urge to gush on your big hits of unfairness with, “Why do I have to do it when no one else does,” and one of my favorites, “I’m over-qualified for this,” and the show stopper, “This isn’t what I went to junior college for,” try another path.

I’m thinking of an awards show where the winners seem to name everyone they’ve known their entire life for the win.

But what’s it called when Marlon Brando declined his Academy Award Oscar?

What’s it called when Jean-Paul Sartre declined his Nobel Prize?

When I win an Oscar and a Nobel I’ll be thanking the hell out of everyone until I get the hook.

Cue the music? Still thanking. Dim the lights? Still thanking.

Why?

Because it’s a miracle anything gets done to the level of recognition by peers.

 

New Numbers For My Breakout Peers

My peers are turning their blogs into books and movies.

Books, lots of book books.

Movies.

 

Because of Tuckers blog, he was able to get a book published which The New York Times called “…highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible…” no wonder it was in The New York Times best sellers list for 100 weeks.

He is filming a movie based on his book/stories/life by the title “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” coming soon! (2009)

 

What about me? What about BoomerPdx?

I’ve been approached for a wikipedia page, an inclusion in Who’s Who, and Good Blogger awards that come with badges to post on my page.

Why don’t I have a wiki, a who-who, or awards?

Because I write a vanity blog. Heads up on that one if you couldn’t tell by all the Me, Me, Me content.

Call it therapy, counseling, or a commitment to literary excellence.

Just don’t call it monetized, optimized, and classified.

Call it reader bait.

Before the last google algorithm change the bait was strong.

Best numbers ever.

Then? I got new numbers, lower numbers, poor numbers.

You’ve never heard me complain about my numbers, my analytics, and here’s why: I’m stunned anyone finds boomerpdx and sticks around to read a few posts.

It knocks me out when anyone leaves a comment. But let’s be real here.

I do all the sweaty work over a hot keyboard and when a reader leaves a comment I have more work to do.

If I were more inclined to spend more time in front of a screen I’d be rizzing it up on social media beyond what I already do.

Where’s my hype-man, or woman, to push a failing blog?

 

Push It, Push It Good

When readers leave comments they are pushing me.

I’m good with the push. I’ve been pushed before, sometimes with good results, sometimes not.

That’s when the push-back starts.

I push myself to create easy reading posts, which might seem anti-intellectual.

But it’s not.

I’m not writing for a review by the English Department, people who are enthralled in jargon like a doctor breaking down the chemical reactions of the drug they just prescribed for you.

Do you ask scientifically informed questions regarding efficacy, or just hope the fuck it works like it’s supposed to without screwing anything else up with harsh side-effects?

My people don’t take vitamin C to cure cancer because it starts with the same letter.

They don’t ignore high blood pressure and clogged arteries. They take the hard stuff, the statins, the benzos, the lisinopril.

Call it a warning to my millennial readers. (Hey youths)

 

PS: Many baby boomers take their meds because they’re too lazy to do the work for new numbers. (Starting with weight loss numbers.)

PSS: You’ll know I’m hitting my numbers when I start posting shirtless pictures that aren’t posed in ‘the right light.’ Vanity blog, remember?

If you hit your numbers and don’t have anyplace to brag, send pics. (Skip the ‘before’ pics, no one wants to see that. Lol)