{"id":1364,"date":"2007-04-30T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2007-04-29T18:55:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:55:16","slug":"my-life-as-a-dog-author-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1364\/my-life-as-a-dog-author-12\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life as a Dog – Author 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Teri<\/a> continues her march toward the prize<\/a> and is no doubt putting the finishing touches on her acceptance speech, I have reached a milestone of sorts myself. It has officially been five months and one day since my smiling likeness was added to the sidebar of the Bloodhound. Why choose this random milestone to reflect on my contributions here, rather than a more logical breakpoint on the Greg-orian calendar (say, five months and seven days)?<\/p>\n

Just maybe<\/em>, I am messing with Greg. This being Monday morning, I am sure that what he really wants on his front page is the link to the Carnival or an update on SB 1291. I have always suspected that this sort of fluff post really riles Greg, he being the Big Thinker. While he is trying to have meaningful dialogue on issues of national import, I invariably pop in at the most inopportune time with my vacation journal<\/a> or a picture of my client’s cat<\/a>. I always envision him pounding furiously and red-faced at the keyboard to bury my contributions with something more worthy of a site with Authority. “Fox News? Greg Swann here. I will be a little late to our interview. She’s posting again”.<\/p>\n

Okay, I confess I am not clever enough to be that ornery, at least not intentionally. You see, I have no master plan. I have no plan at all. The fact is, I’ll just never be as global or deep in my reasoning and analysis as our Top Dog. I often imagine Greg posting from a home office which is a scale model of the White House Situation Room, complete with a host of monitors displaying feeds from around the globe. Conversely, my workspace involves a computer, mounds of steaming contracts, the cat’s most recent hairball “offering”, and the Hawaiian Death Idol acquired on our 2004 vacation. (Don’t try to cross me, the Idol has tremendous get-even powers).<\/p>\n

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And, the Real Estate Tomato says I’m doing it all wrong. They recently talked about the biggest blogging blunders<\/a> one can make. Reading their top ten mistakes list, I could give point by Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Teri continues her march toward the prize and is no doubt putting the finishing touches on her acceptance speech, I have reached a milestone of sorts myself. It has officially been five months and one day since my smiling likeness was added to the sidebar of the Bloodhound. 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