A New Frame of Mind

      Jack is tired. It has been a rough and very busy several months for us all; especially Jack. Life has swallowed him whole and spit him out. He is weighed down by all the cares of the family. So many worries, so little time. And no rest for the weary. When he watched, A Few Good Men, and Jack Nicholson shouted to him that he couldn't handle the truth, he shook his head in agreement. He hates the truth. And like Jack, the staff here at Hines Terrace Herald is tired too. The world has gotten us down. We just don't know if we are coming or going. Seems like every facet of life has gotten busier and busier and we lay down at night exhausted, but not finished. And then comes the dreaming these strange dreams about being chased and not being able to move or showing up to a race and everyone has already taken off and you are the last to start and you run and run and never catch up with even the slowest participants. So it has comes time for an A&E style intervention for the staff at HTH and we have a clear choice to make.

  We know the stats. Page views aren't high and we know why. It is hard to read the same post thats been sitting there for weeks. To be honest, the amount of posts have been in a steady state of decline since May. June and July maxed out at 5, August and September maxed out at 6, and the writers here at HTH went into hiding, but managed to churn out a measly five posts for two months. If there were money involved, heads would roll, as the saying goes, but there isn't. And all of our excuses just don't sound adequate. And to top it off, if I did just go out and say a simple, "I'm sorry", I feel you, my dear readers, would just look at me and say, "Sorry's not enough this time....".

    So, we have had staff meeting overload and spent hours upon hours discussing all the things that would have better been left on a bullet point memo and we have come to some office-wide conclusions:

    1. We love having this blog and writing for it.

    2. We really desire to keep the blog up to date.

    3. We have set our turnout expectations too high.(171 posts in two years. 92 in the current year alone.)

    4. We feel very bad and completely rotten when we have to let the blog sit on the bottom of our to-do list.

    5. We have come up with several good resolutions:

• The staff here at HTH is going to do our very best to churn out ONE post a week, no matter what.
• Some weeks we will do multiple posts, but we will pull out all the stops to guarantee one post a week. It is the best we can do. It is the least we can do.

     So, I realize you guys may not want to know the inner workings of things here at HTH, but we really appreciate our followers and don't want to lose them because life gets so busy. Thanks for reading. We hope you keep it up and leave us a comment from time to time to let us know how we are doing.


David