Some Random Blog Information – Summertime Personal Update

Some of you may have noticed that my posting frequency has dropped off as of late. It has. While I try to shoot for 3 to 5 posts per week I’ve been barely making one for the last couple of weeks. Don’t worry though; I have a ton of good ideas for articles floating around in my head lately. They just haven’t made it onto the pages of the blog as of yet.

One of the things I struggle with as a blogger is how I want the site to be perceived. Am I an article site? Should I concentrate on the big articles and big ideas that can get up to 2k views in a day? Or should I fall back upon the more personal style of bloggery that the greats such as AmboDriver and TOTWTYTR use? I realize that this is my forum and that I can do what I darn well please with it, but I do want my readers to get something useful from the site. That’s the thing. I have always thought that people come here to read this blog because I’m just some guy who writes about paramedicine from the front of his ambulance. And that’s still the case. I almost always write things whilst on-duty and my various jobs have been pulling me in a lot of directions as of late which has been slowing me down. I can write when I’m home, like this post, but I enjoy playing with the boy and I think that the wife’d skin me if I didn’t keep up with my part of the house chores.

At any rate, please don’t give up on me. I love having a blog and I have always been surprised and appreciative that people actually come here to read what I have to say. It’s a great feeling to be able to think of an idea, jot it down on a keyboard, and have people come and read and comment on it. It is even better when the subject matter is something that I truly love as much as I love EMS. While I could see myself writing a blog about other subjects I’m passionate about, such as Barbeque or Tibetan Dance, I’m glad that I chose EMS. It’s much more entertaining to write things about calls I run on than it would be to write something every time I sear a steak to perfection or smoke the perfect rack of ribs (like I did last night, I might add)

So today, I’m going to be working on writing the big articles that I’ve yet to finish and I’ll be scheduling them to run during the week. I’ve sent some things to the magazines and if you’d like you can read one of my more formal articles up on EMS Magazine’s page or you can hop on over to www.EMSeducast.com and hear a podcast I was on regarding high school students in EMS. Tonight you can go and listen to the Happy Hour on the www.FFnetcast.com or you can go listen to the great things they’re doing at www.genmedshow.com .

Yes, this was a disjointed article, but for just under 600 words it took me three cups of coffee, two phone calls, a bathroom break, two kiddie wrestling matches, a few “Dad!! Look!!’s” and an hour and a half to write. Bear with me folks and thanks for reading. I’m going to write today, I promise…

However, I could  go fishing…